different between lade vs stuff

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 stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), from Old French estoffer ("to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff"; > French étoffer and étouffer), from Frankish *stopf?n, *stopp?n (“to cram, plug, stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? (“to clog up, block, fill”). Cognate with Old High German stoff?n, stopf?n (“to plug, stuff”), Old English stoppian (“to stop up, close”) and Albanian shtyp (“to press, squeeze, stuff”). Compare Dutch stof, and German Stoff. More at stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

stuff (usually uncountable, plural stuffs)

1. (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

   1. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
      • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,

        He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.

2. (informal) Unspecified things or matters.

3. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object — as for example breadstuff into bread, or (more figuratively) the right stuff into an astronaut.

   Synonyms: matter, ingredients, constituents; see also Thesaurus:substance

   • 1697, John Davies, A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul

     The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
   1. (archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
      • 1857, The National Magazine (volumes 10-11, page 350)

        "And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.

      • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p.147:

        She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.

   2. (archaic) Boards used for building.
   3. Abstract/figurative substance or character.
      • c.1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 2, 91–94:

        When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff

      • c.1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, scene 1, 156–157:

        We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

   4. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

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

4. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

   Synonyms: doodad, thingamabob; see also Thesaurus:thingy
5. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

   Synonyms: dope, gear; see also Thesaurus:recreational drug

   • 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 March:

     For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.

   • 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)

     For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.

6. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

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

7. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

   Synonyms: garbage, rubbish; see also Thesaurus:trash

   • Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
8. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

9. (slang, criminal argot, dated) Money.

Usage notes

• The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts. In the UK & Commonwealth it designates the cloth from which legal and academic gowns are made, except for the gowns of Queen's/King's/State Counsel, which are (often in contradistinction) made of silk.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

stuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)

1. (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

   I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.

   • Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.

2. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
3. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this redundant sense?) (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.

4. (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
5. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

   Synonyms: fill one's face, feed one's face, stuff one's face

   She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.

7. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.

8. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.

   Synonyms: fuck, root, screw

   His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.

9. (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
10. (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.

    Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.

    They totally stuffed us in that business deal.

11. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

12. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
13. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
14. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this redundant sense?) (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
    • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5

      An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.

15. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
16. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• stuff at OneLook Dictionary Search
• stuff in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tuffs, tuffs