reload

From re- +‎ load.

• IPA^(key): (verb) /ɹiːˈləʊd/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊd
• IPA^(key): (noun) /ˈɹiːləʊd/

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reload (third-person singular simple present reloads, present participle reloading, simple past and past participle reloaded)

1. To load (something) again.
   • 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:

     If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.

   • 2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption:

     The train has only a short distance left to its destination at Swinden Quarry, where the wagons will be reloaded.

   1. (computing) To refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen
   2. (firearms) To load a gun again; or recharge a used cartridge.
      • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 128:

        Naturally after firing solidly for five minutes without reloading Arnie has wiped out all the bad dudes and thumbs a lift to the nearest town.

   3. (music) To replay music in a DJ set.
      • 2013 February 15, “Reload” (track 3), in The Ascent‎^[1], performed by Wiley, Ms D, and Chip:

        We're gonna make the stars come out tonight. So why don't you reload,reload, re reload the music?

      • 2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor‎^[2], performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician):

        [Verse 2:Kano]: […] Mad, reload ting. Pop, pop, pop that's a reload ting. And when I say "It's Kano in the house", everybody knows that's a reload ting.

reload (plural reloads)

1. The process by which something is reloaded.

   Each reload of the weapon took about 30 seconds.

   • 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 35:

     Waddicor will be here for a while. The double shunts take an hour. But it's a scheduled four-hour reload and layover, ahead of his return train back to Didcot.

2. (firearms) An ammunition cartridge prepared from previously fired ammunition.
3. (music) A repeated track on a DJ set.

• New York reload

• loader, ordeal, Eldora, Laredo, Loader, Rodela