Hold
Loading
Loading noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.
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Both words in one sentence
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The game also points out in its loading screens, quite correctly, that naval tradition holds that any person in command of a ship is addressed as "Captain," even if they don't hold that rank.
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Part of this stems from the first of the jets being five feet in front of where you zone in, so those continuing to hold forward through the brief loading screen out of habit are quick to be instagibbed.
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NOTE: Clips are devices used to help load cartridges into a magazine, such as the en-bloc clips used to help feed the M1 rifle's fixed magazine or "moon clips" used hold multiple rounds in-place for loading revolvers.
Source: Bottomless Magazines
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Loading or Hold. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hold/loading.
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