reload

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɹiːˈləʊd/
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/ɹiːˈləʊd/ · /ˈɹiːləʊd/

Definition of reload

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To load (something) again.
    “If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.”
    “The train has only a short distance left to its destination at Swinden Quarry, where the wagons will be reloaded.”
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verb

  1. To load (something) again.
    “If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.”
    “The train has only a short distance left to its destination at Swinden Quarry, where the wagons will be reloaded.”
  2. To load (something) again.
  3. To load (something) again.
    “Naturally after firing solidly for five minutes without reloading Arnie has wiped out all the bad dudes and thumbs a lift to the nearest town.”
  4. To load (something) again.
    “We're gonna make the stars come out tonight. So why don't you reload,reload, re reload the music?”
    “[Verse 2:Kano]:[…]Mad, reload ting. Pop, pop, pop that's a reload ting. And when I say "It's Kano in the house", everybody knows that's a reload ting.”

noun

  1. The process by which something is reloaded.
    “Each reload of the weapon took about 30 seconds.”
    “Waddicor will be here for a while. The double shunts take an hour. But it's a scheduled four-hour reload and layover, ahead of his return train back to Didcot.”
  2. An ammunition cartridge prepared from previously fired ammunition.
  3. A repeated track on a DJ set.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From re- + load.

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