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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 accordions
A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds. quotations examples
A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
(graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents. examples
(figurative) A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects. examples
third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned
(transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion quotations examples
I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops.
1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, in Chicago Reader
It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free […] .
2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town