different between loaded vs loden

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?d?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??d?d/
• Hyphenation: load?ed

Verb

loaded

1. simple past tense and past participle of load

Adjective

loaded (comparative more loaded, superlative most loaded)

1. Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

   Synonyms: crammed, laden, packed, stuffed

   • 1737, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 7, page 780,

     With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I mu?t think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppre??ed with Taxes and Exci?es than the People of this Kingdom ;

   • 1812, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 8, page 118,

     […] the fever began to assume a low type ; the tongue became loaded with a thick brown crust ; […] .

   • 1888, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter (translator), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture,

     […] and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.

   • 1913, Africa, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,

     What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.

   • 2011, Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy, page 15,

     What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.

2. (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.

   Synonyms: armed, primed

3. (slang) Possessing great wealth.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wealthy
4. (slang) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

5. (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.

6. (dice games, also used figuratively) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.

   Synonyms: fixed, rigged, weighted

   • 1996, Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex, page 49,

     The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.

   • 1997, Joe Slovo, Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography, page 80,

     If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.

   • 2009, Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes, page 224,

     Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies […] .

7. (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.

   Synonym: leading
8. (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.

   Synonyms: charged, freighted, pregnant

   • 2003, L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style, page 30,

     The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.

9. (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.

   Synonym: deluxe

10. (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings.

11. Weighted with lead or similar.

    a loaded cane or whip

Derived terms

• loaded for bear

Translations

Anagrams

• deload

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Loden.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??d?n/
• Rhymes: -??d?n

Noun

loden (plural lodens)

1. A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
   • 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 314:

     The first thing that caught my eye on this excursion was the number of grey, brown and green loden coats and hats, and how well and sensibly everyone was dressed in general, how remarkably solid were the shoes of the pedestrians of Nuremberg.

2. A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

Adjective

loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)

1. Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Eldon, olden

Dutch

Alternative forms

• looien (now dialectal)

Etymology

lood +? -en

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?.d?(n)/
• Rhymes: -o?d?n

Adjective

loden (not comparable)

1. leaden, made of lead

Inflection

Related terms

• lood

Anagrams

• dolen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lòden (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Old Norse loðinn, from the Proto-Germanic past participle of *leudan? (“to sprout, spring up, grow”). Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h?lewd?- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [²l????n], /²lo??n/, /²lod??n/ (example of pronunciation)

Adjective

loden (masculine and feminine loden, neuter lode or lodent, definite singular and plural lodne, comparative lodnare, indefinite superlative lodnast, definite superlative lodnaste)

1. hairy, shaggy, woolly

References

• “loden” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

loden m (plural lódenes)

1. loden