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- Difference between “laden” and “loaded” - English Language Usage . . .
Interestingly, laden is an adjective derived from the past participle of "lade", derived from OE, hladen, "to load" Load derives from laeden, "to guide", and retained its meaning in "lodestone" (magnet, ie compass) and "lodestar" (guiding star, ie Northstar)
- Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation?
(The clouds are laden with rain - a storm is coming - which is not a good thing ) 1897 Daily News 13 Sept 7 1 The laden trains start hence (The trains are being used efficiently - this is neutral - if they are laden with weapons it might be bad; if they are laden with supplies, it may be good
- laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Other uses of laden, as defined by Macmillan Dictionary carrying something heavy, or supporting the weight of something heavy laden with: Passengers got off the train laden with boxes and suitcases heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment
- Are apple trees loaded or laden with fruit? [duplicate]
You should attribute your quotes Oxford Learner's Dictionaries gives the participial adjective usage of 'loaded': loaded adjective full 1 carrying a load; full and heavy synonym: laden a fully loaded truck which shows that for this sense, 'laden' and 'loaded' are usually interchangeable
- Is “have the steel” an idiom in the statement, “Mitt Romney would have . . .
Since the lines in question apparently refers to the prompt decision to give an order to raid on bin Laden’s hideout (to ultimately kill him!), it appears to me that “have the brass balls (or guts)‘ is closer to the gist of the text, “Romney would have the (same) steel to order the operation’ as Obama had " than “had endurance
- Colourful Language with regards to swearing
Why is expletive laden, or coarse language often referred to as being colourful colorful? Oxford Dictionaries define it, colourful 2 2 (of language) vulgar or rude ‘colorful words usually impolite in public meetings’ ‘And there's some very colorful language in some of those opinions ’
- What is the proper term for when an animal is pregnant with eggs . . .
Specifically things like chicken or most fish @AlainPannetierΦ that's the word for the animals themselves that give birth by eggs (and viviparous describing animals with live births), not the state of the animal right before the proto-animals are expelled
- meaning - Fraught, as in Overwrought Anxiety? - English Language . . .
In Middle English, fraught (an etymological cousin of freight) was a verb meaning "to load (a ship)," and the identical form could serve as a past participle meaning "laden (with) " While the verb dropped out of the language almost entirely, the past participle stuck around, typically followed by "with" and an object -- often a burden, whether
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