What is the difference between Load and Lode?




What is the difference between Load and Lode? :


Load : (noun)

( 1 ) Thing that is being carried or to be carried

He carried a load of sand.


( 2 ) Amount of work that a motor, an engine, etc…is required to do

The load that this lorry can carry is only 10,000kg.


( 3 ) Amount of electric current supplied by a dynoamo oe generating station

This powerful machine needs heavy load.


( 4 ) Weight of responsibility, worry, grief, etc…

I have a heavy load of work to do.



Load : (verb)

( 1 ) Put a load in or on something / someone

They loaded the lorry with bricks.


( 2 ) Receive a load

The boat is still loading.


( 3 ) Put film in a camera or ammunition into a gun

Be careful. That gun is loaded.

Please load the camera before you go out.



Lode : (noun)

( 1 ) A veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous

Any body of ore set off from adjacent rock formations

A rich supply or source

British : a waterway or channel











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