different between loaded vs pregnant

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

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.

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

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