Drive and Load

Drive

Drive verb - To urge, push, or force onward.

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Load and drive are semantically related in carry topic. In some cases you can use "Load" instead a verb "Drive".

Nearby Words: driving, driven, driver, driveway

Load verb - To place a weight or burden on.

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Drive and load are semantically related in carry topic. Sometimes you can use "Drive" instead a verb "Load".

Nearby Words: loaded, loading, loader, loadable

emotional	emotional drive	emotional load
old	old drive	old load
high	high drive	high load
low	low drive	low load
Other adjectives: nice, long, specific, short, complete, regular, standard, initial, single, actual, entire, big, increased, slow, new, major, advanced, fantastic, maximum.

character	drive character	load character
time	drive time	load time
way	drive way	load way
characters	drive characters	load characters
Other words: everyone, tank, enemies.

This is mostly due to the games being directly on the hard drive instead of having to load from a disc.

Source: Loads and Loads of Loading
However, on an optical drive, compressed data can be faster to load and decompress than uncompressed data...so it's a double-edged sword on weaker systems.

Source: Loads and Loads of Loading
If you inserted the disk of Karateka for the Apple ][ into the drive upside-down, the game would load and play... upside down.

Source: Silliness Switch

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