Load and Tie

Load

Load noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

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Tie and load are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tie" instead the word "Load" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: loaded, loading, loader, loadable

Tie noun - A situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other.

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Load and tie are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Load" instead the word "Tie" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Word: tied

emotional	emotional load	emotional tie
old	old load	old tie
special	special load	special tie
particular	particular load	particular tie
Other adjectives: short, regular, standard, light, small, real, large, big, huge, new, wide, lit, comic.

The 1950 Friz Freleng cartoon "Stooge For A Mouse" has a hungry mouse load horseshoes into a boxing glove, then tie the glove onto Sylvester's hand while the cat naps.

Source: Weighted Gloves
Load-Bearing Boss: Invoked after Julia's fight with Serpentus, in which she uses magic-proof Dwarven chains to tie him to the room in such a way that ten tons of rock will fall on him if he isn't untangled very, very carefully.

Source: Comic Book / Gold Digger
Tie the school's buffalo mascot on the pole of a traffic light so one of the popular girls would drive under it while giving the animal a huge amount of laxatives, causing it to dump its "load" all over her.

Source: Disproportionate Retribution / Western Animation

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