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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
plural academies
(classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. examples
(classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers. examples
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school. quotations examples
The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures
1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449
In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".
1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume
A school or place of training in which some special art is taught. quotations examples
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind
A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science. examples
(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
(with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia. quotations examples
In the academy and outside of it, the privileging of technical expertise above other forms of knowledge is a political gesture, and one that has proved highly effective in neutralizing critique of established power relations.
2016, Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities
A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative. examples
(UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control. examples