Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Load
Load verb - To place a weight or burden on.
How words are described
| old | old cover | old load |
| high | high cover | high load |
| full | full cover | full load |
| low | low cover | low load |
| Other adjectives: best, better, complete, current, standard, light, half, single, heavy, actual, entire, real, slow, decent, new, comic. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Load them on a truck, take them with you, and in five minutes team of two can construct cover for themselves.
Source: Deployable Cover -
Self-Deprecation: The computer game by Virgin Interactive has "You'll never play a bigger load of crap" on the game's cover.
Source: Comic Book / Viz -
Getting Crap Past the Radar: The cover art of Powerslave has phrases such as "Bolloks" and "Wot a load of crap" disguised as hieroglyphs.
Source: Music / Iron Maiden
Cite this Source
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