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  • 1load — [n1] cargo, freight amount, bale, bundle, capacity, charge, consignment, contents, encumbrance, goods, haul, heft, hindrance, lading, mass, pack, parcel, part, payload, shipment, shot, weight; concepts 338,432 load [n2] burden, pressure… …

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  • 2pressure — [n1] physical force, weight burden, compressing, compression, crushing, encumbrance, heaviness, load, mass, shear, squeeze, squeezing, strain, strength, stress, tension, thrust; concepts 641,734 pressure [n2] demand, difficulty adversity,… …

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  • 3load — ► NOUN 1) a heavy or bulky thing being or about to be carried. 2) a weight or source of pressure. 3) the total number or amount carried in a vehicle or container. 4) (a load/loads of) informal a lot of. 5) the amount of work to be done by a… …

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  • 4Pressure Cooker (game show) — Pressure Cooker was a game show about cooking hosted by Chris Durham. It aired on the Food Network in 1998.The Main GameRound 1 (Meal Ticket)In round one, three contestants face a game board called the Meal Mixer . The Meal Mixer always contains… …

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  • 5load — n: an amount added (as to the price of a security or the net premium in insurance) to represent selling expense and profit to the distributor compare no load Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. load …

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  • 6pressure — I noun anxiety, anxiousness, brunt, brute force, burden, coercion, compulsion, constraining force, constraint, controlling power, crisis, drive, duress, encumbrance, exertion, exhortation, exigency, force, hardship, heaviness, hindrance,… …

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  • 7pressure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. strain, compulsion, stress; persuasion, coercion, persuasiveness; affliction, trouble; distress; heaviness, compression. See adversity, gravity, importance, influence, power. II (Roget s IV) n. 1.… …

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  • 8Pressure Flow Hypothesis — The Pressure Flow Hypothesis, also known as the Mass Flow Hypothesis, is the best supported theory to explain the movement of food through the phloem.[1] It was proposed by Ernst Münch, a German plant physiologist in 1930.[2] A high concentration …

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  • 9load — load1 [ loud ] noun *** 1. ) count something that a person or animal carries, especially a large amount of things: The men were struggling with their heavy loads. a ) count the goods that a vehicle carries: load of: She drove back from the farm… …

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  • 10load — [[t]lo͟ʊd[/t]] ♦♦♦ loads, loading, loaded 1) VERB If you load a vehicle or a container, you put a large quantity of things into it. [V n] The three men seemed to have finished loading the truck... [V n with n] Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with …

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