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to handload

to handload

6.9
To load boxes or goods by hand instead of using machines
  • verb
  • /ˈhændloʊd/
translation icon : cargar manualmente
  • After the conveyor belt broke, workers had to handload every box onto the truck.

Examples

  • They decided to handload the fragile items to prevent any damage during transport.

  • It took much longer to handload the equipment than to use the usual machinery.

  • I handload my own ammunition for precision shooting.

  • He handloads bullets every weekend.

  • After the conveyor belt broke, workers had to handload every box onto the truck.

  • It took much longer to handload the equipment than to use the usual machinery.

  • They decided to handload the fragile items to prevent any damage during transport.

Synonyms

to load
vsto handload
572 1.0

To put things onto a vehicle or into a container

use only physical effort instead of machines or automation

Antonyms

to automate
52 4.0

Make a process or job run by machines such as computers instead of people

to mechanize
3 5.6

Use machines to do work people used to do by hand

How Manual

to handload
6.9
to automate
52 4.0

Surface Forms

handload infinitive
handloaded past
handloaded past participle
handloading present participle
handloads third person singular

Morphology

handload = hand + load (transparent) = hand + load

This is a straightforward compound meaning 'load by hand' rather than by machine.

Etymology

Handload is simply hand ('by hand') plus load ('to put in' or 'fill'), and so it can mean to load things by hand, for example putting boxes onto a truck when a machine is not used.