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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
comparative more abhorrent, superlative most abhorrent
(archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed. quotations
The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Contrary to something; discordant. quotations examples
This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire
In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing. examples
Detestable or repugnant. quotations examples
If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism
That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human
The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.
1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas