reload — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To load (something) again.

   Examples

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

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

2. To load (something) again. To refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen

3. To load (something) again. To load a gun again; or recharge a used cartridge.

   Examples

   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.

4. To load (something) again. To replay music in a DJ set.

   Examples

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

   [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.

Noun

1. The process by which something is reloaded.

   Examples

   Each reload of the weapon took about 30 seconds.

   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. An ammunition cartridge prepared from previously fired ammunition.

3. A repeated track on a DJ set.

Verb

1. load anew

   Synonyms

   recharge

   Broader terms

   loadcharge

   Examples

   She reloaded the gun carefully

2. place a new load on

   Broader terms

   loadladeladenload up

   Examples

   The movers reloaded the truck