Word Meanings - UNLOAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
Additional info about word: UNLOAD
1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel. 4. To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun.
Related words: (words related to UNLOAD)
- BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - ONEROUS
Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous. - BEASTLIKE
Like a beast. - BEASTLINESS
The state or quality of being beastly. - BURDENER
One who loads; a oppressor. - ONEROUSLY
In an onerous manner. - BEASTINGS
See BIESTINGS - CARGOOSE
A species of grebe ; the crested grebe. - UNLOAD
1. To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast. 2. Hence, to relieve from anything onerous. 3. To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - RELIEVEMENT
The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release. - VESSELFUL
As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel. - BEASTHOOD
State or nature of a beast. - REMOVER
One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. - BURDENOUS
Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak. - UNLOADER
One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon. - HENCE
ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send - REMOVED
1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. - DISCHARGER
One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod. - DISCHARGE
1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - THENCEFROM
From that place. - AIR VESSEL
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheƦ, of plants spiral - SUPERCARGO
An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage. - SEA BEAST
Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean. - OVERBURDEN
To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney. - UNBURDEN
1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.