different between laden vs pregnant

English

Etymology

See lade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?d?n/
• Rhymes: -e?d?n

Adjective

laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.

2. Heavy.

3. Oppressed.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

4. (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

Translations

Verb

laden

1. past participle of lade

Related terms

• ladle
• ballast
• larboard

Anagrams

• Alden, Dalen, Nelda, eland, lande, laned, lean'd, naled

Danish

Noun

laden c

1. definite singular of lade
2. verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), letting, having, making, seeming, pretending
3. verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), loading, charging

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?d?(n)/
• Hyphenation: la?den
• Rhymes: -a?d?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch l?den, from Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan?.

Verb

laden

1. to load (cargo, a weapon, data)
2. to charge (with electricity)

Inflection

Derived terms

• laadpaal
• laadstation
• laadschop
• beladen
• herladen
• inladen
• opladen
• overladen
• uitladen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch l?den, from Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþ?n (“to call”), from Proto-Germanic *laþ?n? (“to call”).

Verb

laden

1. (archaic) to convocate
2. (archaic) to invite

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

laden

1. Plural form of lade
2. Plural form of la

Anagrams

• dalen, eland, lande

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?d?n/, [-d?n], [-dn?]
• Hyphenation: la?den

Etymology 1

From Middle High German laden (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English laden.

Verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
2. (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
3. (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
4. (transitive, computing) to download from a network
5. (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to load up): aufbürden, aufladen, auflasten, aufnehmen, aufpacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, beschweren, einladen, stauen, unterbringen, verladen, verstauen, vollladen, vollpacken
• (to load a weapon): nachladen
• (to download): downloaden, herunterladen, runterladen, übertragen
• (to charge): aufladen, elektrisieren

Antonyms

• (to load up): abladen, ausladen, herausholen, herausnehmen, herunternehmen, löschen

Derived terms

Related terms

• Lade
• Laden
• Lader
• Ladung
• lästig

Etymology 2

From Middle High German laden (weak verb, but also strong) from Old High German ladon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþ?n.

Verb

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to invite

   Synonym: einladen

2. (transitive, law) to summon

Usage notes

• In historical texts, weak forms such as ladest, ladet, ladete and geladet are also found.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ausladen
• einladen
• vorladen

Related terms

• Laden

Further reading

• “laden#1” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “laden#2” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “laden” in Duden online
• “laden” in Duden online

Anagrams

• lande, Lande, Nadel

Low German

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German l?den, from Old Saxon hladan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?dn?/, /?la?d?n/

Verb

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
2. (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
3. (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
4. (transitive, computing) to download from a network
5. (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

Synonyms

• (to load up): opsacken, opladen, oppuckeln, oplasten, opnehmen, oppacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, inladen, stauen, ünnerbringen, verladen, verstauen, vullladen, vullpacken
• (to load a weapon): naladen
• (to download): downloaden, rünnerladen, överdregen
• (to charge): opladen, elektriseren

Antonyms

• (to load up): afladen, utladen, ruthalen, rutnehmen, rünnernehmen, löschen

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German l?den, from Old Saxon lath?n.

Verb

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive) to invite (someone)
2. (transitive, law) to summon

Synonyms

• (to invite): inladen

Derived terms

• utladen
• inladen
• vörladen

Conjugation

Malay

Verb

laden

1. to serve, attend

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan.

Verb

l?den

2. to load (goods)
3. to load (onto a beast of burden)
4. to burden (with a task)

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: laden
• Limburgish: laaje

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþ?n (“to call”).

Verb

l?den

2. (eastern) to call, to summon

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: laden

Further reading

• “laden”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “laden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “laden (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

English

Alternative forms

• prægnant (obsolete)
• pregnaunt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???n?nt/

Etymology 1

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegn?ns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnasc? (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearn?acen (literally "child-increased").

Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
   1. Of a couple: expecting a baby together.

2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
3. (poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.

4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
5. (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.

Synonyms

• (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
• (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
• (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
• (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
• See also Thesaurus:pregnant

Hyponyms

• (carrying developing offspring): in trouble

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pregnant (plural pregnants)

1. A pregnant person.

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Etymology 2

Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident. [from 14th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:

     Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pregnant, from Old French pregnant, from Latin praegn?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?x?n?nt/
• Hyphenation: preg?nant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

pregnant (comparative pregnanter, superlative pregnantst)

1. poignant, incisive
2. meaningful, polysemic
3. (obsolete) important

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German prägnant and French prégnant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre??nant/

Adjective

pregnant m or n (feminine singular pregnant?, masculine plural pregnan?i, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)

1. pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)

Declension