different between laze vs lade

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: lase, lays

Etymology 1

Back-formation from lazy.

Verb

laze (third-person singular simple present lazes, present participle lazing, simple past and past participle lazed)

1. To be lazy, waste time.
   • 1599, Robert Greene, The Comicall Historie of Alphonsus, King of Aragon, London, Act III,^[1]

     Behold by millions how thy men do fall

     Before Alphonsus like to sillie sheepe.

     And canst thou stand still lazing in this sort?

   • 1635, George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, London: John Grismond, Illustration 36, Book 1,^[2]

     And, lastly, such are they; that, having got

     Wealth, Knowledge, and those other Gifts, which may

     Advance the Publike-Good, yet, use them not;

     But Feede, and Sleepe, and laze their time away.

   • 1892, Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, being Pictures of a Peculiar People, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, Volume 1, Chapter 13, p. 191,^[3]

     But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.

   • 1982, Don DeLillo, The Names, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter 7, p. 160,^[4]

     “I could easily fall into this,” I said. “Laze my way through life. Coffee here, wine there. You can channel significant things into the commonplace. Or you can avoid them completely.”

2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

   The cat spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.

   • 1939, Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads, Penguin, 1982, Chapter 4, p. 93,^[5]

     A football game went on beside the line; half the teams just lazed on the grass […]

Synonyms

• idle
• loaf
• take it easy

Derived terms

• laze about
• laze around
• lazen
• lazy

Translations

Noun

laze (countable and uncountable, plural lazes)

1. (countable) An instance of lazing.

   I had a laze on the beach after lunch.

2. (uncountable) Laziness.

   The laze is real.

Etymology 2

Blend of lava +? haze

Noun

laze (uncountable)

2. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

See also

• vog

Anagrams

• Elza, zale, zeal

Kapin

Noun

laze

1. nit

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

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