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- Difference between “laden” and “loaded” - English Language Usage . . .
In A E Housman's With rue my heart is laden: WITH rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad he refers to laden as loaded,
- laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment In summary, laden is a very old word that is used in the US as a technical term in shipping and in a semi-poetic way, but not used for loaded cars
- Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation?
But when used with other sentences, like, The banks are laden with debt ; Then laden carries a negative connotation, dictionaries describe "laden" as being burdened with something, so does it always carry a negative connotation? Just for the purpose of questioning its usage, what if one were to say, He came in laden with presents
- Are apple trees loaded or laden with fruit? [duplicate]
Laden adj having or carrying a large amount of something Loaded adj filled with a great quantity Are fruit-trees laden or loaded with fruit?
- 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
- orthography - I am trying to find out if there is a convention of . . .
al-Qaida International terrorist organization headed by Osama bin Laden The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999) departs from AP style in yet another idiosyncratic way, as this entry suggests:
- Is “have the steel” an idiom in the statement, “Mitt Romney would have . . .
I found the phrase “ have the steel ” in the following sentence of Time magazine’s article (April 30) titled, “Why Obama Owns bin Laden ” “Judging from the Republican response, President Obama's ad asking whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that captured Osama bin Laden raises serious questions There is a kind of biographical line running between those dusty sparring
- Is there a word to describe a short forceful exhale from the nose or . . .
When I think of the word snort the only sound that comes to mind is that nasally mucus laden inhalation noise Is that just my only option? The sentence I'm trying to fit it into: "It’s just goin
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