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 tracheæ, 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.