different between lade vs heap

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /le?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: laid

Etymology 1

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan? (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (“to put, lay out”).

Verb

lade (third-person singular simple present lades, present participle lading, simple past laded or (obsolete) lode, past participle laden or laded)

1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

   • And they laded their asses with the corn.

2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).

   to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.

4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
5. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.

Related terms

• bill of lading
• laden
• lading

Translations

Noun

lade (plural lades)

1. (Scotland) A load.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lad, from Old English l?d, from Proto-Germanic *laid? (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).

Noun

lade (plural lades)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Gibson to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Deal, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, deal, lead

Cimbrian

Noun

lade f

1. cupboard, cabinet

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþ?, derived from *hlaþan? (“to load”) (se below)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?læ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

lade c (singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

1. (agriculture) barn (building)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Danish latæ, from Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *l?tan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?la], (always in the meanings "pretend, seem") IPA^(key): [?læ?ð?]

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense lod, past participle ladet or ladt)

1. let (to allow)
2. leave (to transfer responsibility or attention)
3. have (cause to, by command or request)
4. have (cause to be)
5. make (force to do)
6. pretend, seem, appear

   in the expressions lade som om (“to pretend”) and lade til (“to seem”)

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?læ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense ladede, past participle ladet)

1. load
2. charge
3. let go

   in the expressions lade vandet (“to urinate”) and lade livet (“to die”) (etymologically, they belong to the former verb, but they have the pronunciation and morphology of this verb).

Inflection

Usage notes

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?læ?ð?]

Adjective

lade

1. definite singular of lad
2. plural of lad

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?.d?/
• Hyphenation: la?de

Etymology 1

Noun

lade f (plural laden or lades, diminutive ladetje n)

1. Alternative form of la

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lade

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laden

Anagrams

• adel, dale

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?d?/
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Verb

lade

1. inflection of laden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *latha, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþ?.

Noun

l?de f

1. box, case
2. (eastern) plank, beam

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: lade, la
• Limburgish: laaj

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lade (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• la

Etymology

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan?.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, passive lades, simple past lada or ladet or ladde, past participle lada or ladet or ladd, present participle ladende)

1. (electricity) to charge (e.g. a battery)
2. to load (a weapon)

Related terms

• lader (noun)

References

• “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan?.

Alternative forms

• la (short form)
• lada (long form with a- or split infinitives)

Verb

lade (present tense ladar or lader, past tense lada or ladde, supine lada or ladd or ladt, past participle lada or ladd, present participle ladande, imperative lad)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load, charge

   Synonym: laste

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hlaði m, hlaða f.

Noun

lade m (definite singular laden, indefinite plural ladar, definite plural ladane)

1. a barn

Related terms

• løe

References

• “lade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Dale, Lade, adel, adle, alde, dale, dela, edla, elda, lade, leda

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??(d?)/

Verb

lade

1. past tense of lägga.

Anagrams

• Edla, adel, dela, leda

English

Etymology

From Middle English heep, from Old English h?ap, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (compare Dutch hoop, German Low German Hupen, German Haufen), from Proto-Indo-European *koupos (“hill”) (compare Lithuanian ka?pas, Albanian qipi (“stack”), Avestan ????????????????? (kåfa)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /hi?p/
• ((Ireland), dated) enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /he?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

heap (plural heaps)

1. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War

     a heap of vassals and slaves

   • 1876, Anthony Trollope, s:Doctor Thorne

     He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense

2. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

   • Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
3. A great number or large quantity of things.
   • 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England

     a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, s:Will o' the Mill

     I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

4. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
5. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.

6. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
   • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

     Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.

7. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lot

Hyponyms

• compost heap

Derived terms

• heapful
• heapmeal
• it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ipi

Translations

Verb

heap (third-person singular simple present heaps, present participle heaping, simple past and past participle heaped)

1. (transitive) To pile in a heap.

2. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, scene II, verses 40-42

     Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring
     News of that vanished Arabian,
     A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.

3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

Synonyms

• (pile in a heap): amass, heap up, pile up; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

• heap coals of fire on someone's head
• heaped (adj), heaping (adj)
• heap up
• overheap

Translations

Adverb

heap (not comparable)

1. (offensive, representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans) Very.
   • 1980, Joey Lee Dillard, Perspectives on American English (page 417)

     We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.

   • 2004, John Robert Colombo, The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes (page 175)

     Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.

Anagrams

• HAPE, HEPA, epha, hep A

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Cognate with Old Frisian h?p, Old Saxon h?p, Old High German houf. Old Norse hópr differs from the expected form *haupr because it is a borrowing from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xæ???p/, [hæ???p]

Noun

h?ap m

1. group
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Paul the Apostle"

2. heap

Declension

Derived terms

• h?apm?lum

Descendants

• Middle English: heep
  • English: heap

Portuguese

Etymology

From English heap

Noun

heap m or f (in variation) (plural heaps)

1. (computing) heap (tree-based data structure)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian h?p, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”).

Noun

heap c (plural heapen or heappen, diminutive heapke)

1. heap, pile
2. mass, gang, horde

Further reading

• “heap”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011