laden
English
Etymology
See lade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleɪdən/, (colloquial) /ˈleɪdn̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdən
Adjective
laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)
- Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
- Heavy.
- His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
- Oppressed.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
- Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.
Derived terms
Translations
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Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaːdə(n)/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: la‧den
- Rhymes: -aːdən
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”), from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to call”).
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaːdən/, [-dən], [-dn̩]
- Hyphenation: la‧den
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Verb
laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
- Antonyms: abladen, ausladen, herausholen, herausnehmen, herunternehmen, löschen
- (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
- (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
- (transitive, computing) to download from a network
- (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Synonyms
- (to load up): aufbürden, aufladen, auflasten, aufnehmen, aufpacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, beschweren, einladen, stauen, unterbringen, verladen, verstauen, vollladen, vollpacken
- (to load a weapon): nachladen
- (to download): downloaden, herunterladen, runterladen, übertragen
- (to charge): aufladen, elektrisieren
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (weak verb, but also strong) from Old High German ladon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn.
Verb
laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)
Usage notes
- In historical texts, weak forms such as ladest, ladet, ladete and geladet are also found.
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
Further reading
Low German
Etymology 1
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Saxon hladan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaːdn̩/, /ˈlaːdən/
Verb
laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)
- (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
- (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
- (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
- (transitive, computing) to download from a network
- (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity
Conjugation
| infinitive | laden | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | preterite |
| 1st person singular | laad | laad |
| 2nd person singular | laadst | laadst |
| 3rd person singular | laadt | laad |
| plural | laadt | laden |
| imperative | present | — |
| singular | laad | |
| plural | laadt | |
| participle | present | past |
| laden | laadt/laden | |
| Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects. | ||
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Saxon lathōn.
Conjugation
| infinitive | laden | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | preterite |
| 1st person singular | laad | laad |
| 2nd person singular | laadst | laadst |
| 3rd person singular | laadt | laad |
| plural | laadt | laden |
| imperative | present | — |
| singular | laad | |
| plural | laadt | |
| participle | present | past |
| laden | laadt/laden | |
| Note: This conjugation is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects. | ||
Synonyms
- (to invite): inladen
Derived terms
- utladen
- inladen
- vörladen
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan.
Inflection
| Strong | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | lāden | |
| 3rd sg. past | lōot | |
| 3rd pl. past | lōden | |
| Past participle | gelōden | |
| Infinitive | lāden | |
| In genitive | lādens | |
| In dative | lādene | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | lāde | lōot |
| 2nd singular | lāets, lādes | lōots, lōdes |
| 3rd singular | lāet, lādet | lōot |
| 1st plural | lāden | lōden |
| 2nd plural | lāet, lādet | lōot, lōdet |
| 3rd plural | lāden | lōden |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | lāde | lōde |
| 2nd singular | lāets, lādes | lōdes |
| 3rd singular | lāde | lōde |
| 1st plural | lāden | lōden |
| 2nd plural | lāet, lādet | lōdet |
| 3rd plural | lāden | lōden |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | lat, lāet, lāde | |
| Plural | lāet, lādet | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | lādende | gelōden |
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Limburgish: laaje
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”).
Inflection
| Strong | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | lāden | |
| 3rd sg. past | lōot | |
| 3rd pl. past | lōden | |
| Past participle | gelōden | |
| Infinitive | lāden | |
| In genitive | lādens | |
| In dative | lādene | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | lāde | lōot |
| 2nd singular | lāets, lādes | lōots, lōdes |
| 3rd singular | lāet, lādet | lōot |
| 1st plural | lāden | lōden |
| 2nd plural | lāet, lādet | lōot, lōdet |
| 3rd plural | lāden | lōden |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | lāde | lōde |
| 2nd singular | lāets, lādes | lōdes |
| 3rd singular | lāde | lōde |
| 1st plural | lāden | lōden |
| 2nd plural | lāet, lādet | lōdet |
| 3rd plural | lāden | lōden |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | lat, lāet, lāde | |
| Plural | lāet, lādet | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | lādende | gelōden |
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Further reading
- “laden”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “laden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “laden (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II