loaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
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lifestyle
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Etymology: Etymology tree
English load
English -ed
English loaded
From load + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more loaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
pos: adj
examples: Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
With regard to France and Holland, therefore, I muſt think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppreſſed with Taxes and Exciſes than the People of this Kingdom ;
[…]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.
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.
What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
gloss: Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
pos: adj
examples: No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
gloss: Possessing great wealth.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
She told me that her Dad was loaded / I said “In that case, I’ll have rum and coca-cola”
Is he loaded? “Yeah!” How much is he worth? “I don’t know, but I could probably never be poor again. When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much. I don’t know what I’ve done with my money. […]”
And my God, doesn’t it feel good? For a few moments to think of the country as the place of sacred ointments and special spoons, grand cathedrals and epically wealthy, exquisitely dressed people. In that moment we can see our own country in their image: a country that is sober, benign and loaded.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: ‘Well, I’m loaded right now and I can’t remember where it is right now, tiny country . . . in the west?’
By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.
gloss: Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
pos: adj
examples: It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
gloss: Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
examples: He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
They played awhile to Corinius’s great content, for at every throw he won and the other’s purse waxed light. But at this eleventh stanza the son of Corund cried out that the dice of Corinius were loaded.
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.
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.
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 […].
gloss: Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
pos: adj
examples: That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
At a press conference held in a Valencia hotel two weeks ago, Jesús “Suso” García Pitarch was asked why Peter Lim had bought the city’s football team in the first place. It was a loaded question, one supporters have pondered often over the last couple of years, and the answer, or the lack of one, felt loaded as well.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
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.
gloss: Equipped with numerous options.
pos: adj
examples: She went all out; her new car is loaded.
gloss: Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: loaded fries
loaded potato wedges
gloss: Weighted with lead or similar.
pos: adj
examples: a loaded cane or whip
Derived words: bases loaded
coloaded
front-loaded
fully-loaded
loaded dice
loaded for bear
loaded language
loaded march
loaded question
loaded word
locked and loaded
nonloaded
spring-loaded
spring-loaded camming device
spring-loaded mode
underloaded
unloaded
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: зареден
roman: zareden
lang: Czech
word: nabitý
lang: Dutch
word: geladen
lang: Finnish
word: ladattu
lang: French
word: chargé
lang: German
word: geladen
lang: German
word: scharf
lang: Hungarian
word: töltött
lang: Icelandic
word: hlaðinn
lang: Irish
word: lódáilte
lang: Polish
word: nabity
lang: Russian
word: заря́женный
roman: zarjážennyj
lang: Slovak
word: nabitý
lang: Swedish
word: laddad
lang: Bulgarian
word: подправен
roman: podpraven
lang: Czech
word: cinknutý
lang: Finnish
word: painotettu
lang: French
word: pipé
lang: German
word: gezinkt
lang: Portuguese
word: viciado
lang: Swedish
word: riggad
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַלש
roman: falsh
lang: Yiddish
word: פּניותדיק
roman: pniesdik
lang: Yiddish
word: צדדימדיק
roman: tsdodimdik