Boot and Load

Boot

Boot verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

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Load and boot are semantically related. in start operating system topic. In some cases you can use "Load" instead a verb "Boot".

Nearby Words: booted, boots, bootless, bootee, booting

Load verb - To place a weight or burden on.

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Boot and load are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boot" instead a verb "Load".

Nearby Words: loaded, loading, loader, loadable

old	old boot	old load
full	full boot	full load
special	special boot	special load
long	long boot	long load
Other adjectives: short, complete, regular, standard, single, small, entire, real, large, new, literal, giant, bigger, longer, biggest.

character	boot character	load character
characters	boot characters	load characters
data	boot data	load data
world	boot world	load world
Other words: game, program, enemies, environments.

Every time you load back to a check point in the Splatterhouse remake, with different screens showcasing the game's monsters to boot.

Source: Loads and Loads of Loading
Battlestar Galactica: John Cavil is eventually revealed as an angsty teen stuck in an old man's body with a load of Mommy Issues to boot since said old man's body was based on his "mother" Ellen Tigh's father (it's probably a good thing she didn't know that when he forced her to have sex with him).

Source: Psychopathic Manchild
While he certainly could extract the computer set it up and sit in front of it to watch it, realistically he would still have to wait for the OS to boot, the browser to open and the feed to load.

Source: Series / The Flash (2014)

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