live load
- noun
- /laɪv loʊd/
- Specialized
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- The engineer calculated the live load of the bridge to ensure it could safely accommodate vehicles and pedestrians.
- live load analysis
- deadweight and live load
- overall deadweight and live load
Examples
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To determine the building's safety, they measured the maximum live load it could handle, which included furniture and occupants.
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Use Code-Calc for individual components and PVElite to add overall deadweight and live load analysis.
Academic text (2002) -
I, I'm not sure what its actual rating is, but I'm quite positive that the live load this can take includes the weight of me right that that its rating can handle that.
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During the inspection, they found that the live load on the roof exceeded the designed limit due to heavy equipment placement.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositionally built from 'live' (currently active/in operation) + 'load' (a quantity carried), so a learner can infer it refers to a load that is not permanent but active or changing (e.g., people, vehicles). However, the precise technical sense (contrast with 'dead load' and the engineering use meaning variable or movable loads) requires domain knowledge and may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The noun live load comes from building and bridge work and names the part of the weight that can change. The word live means 'moving' or 'alive', like people and cars, and load means the weight, so live load is the movable weight a structure must carry.
