loading area
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈloʊdɪŋ ˈɛəriə/
:
zona de carga
- Nick plows into the loading area like a bullet, whipping around stacks of boxes and lumbering forklifts.
Examples
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Medium freight loading area.
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A design like their River Street store in Cambridge might be a good place to start, with the store raised up one story under which they situated their loading area and some customer parking.
Blog text (16) -
We'll form up in the loading area.
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- Near the yellow loading area.
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Drive to the yellow loading area.
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We need backup in the loading area!
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Probably not so much a town, he decided, as a dockside loading area.
Fiction book (1991) -
Kaufman and Donald are parked in the loading area at Miami Airport, with Donald behind the wheel.
Fiction book (2002) -
"The funny thing," Sork thought, "was that in the turmoil around the loading area he was almost sure he had seen the Turtle, Litlun, scurrying into an earlier car."
Fiction book (1991) -
The delivery truck arrived at the loading area to unload supplies for the store.
Synonyms
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2.8
A platform at a warehouse where trucks pull up to load or unload
27
3.6
A raised area at a building where trucks stop to load and unload goods
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3.7
A space for vehicles to stop briefly to load or unload
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a designated place where vehicles are loaded or unloaded' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'loading' (the action of putting cargo onto a vehicle) with 'area' (a region or place). This straightforward noun-noun composition is a common, predictable naming pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun loading area comes from a simple picture: a marked area where loading happens, with workers putting boxes into trucks, so it means 'a place for vehicles to be loaded or unloaded'.