Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈləʊ.dəd/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈloʊ.dɪd/
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- General-American
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ˈloʊdɪd
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- US
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ˈləʊdɪd
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- GB
Adjective
Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
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Let’s leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
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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 ;[…].
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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.
Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
Usage- of a projectile weapon
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No funny business; this heater’s loaded!
Possessing great wealth.
Usage- Colloquial
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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”
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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.
Drunk.
Usage- Slang
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‘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.
Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
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It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
Usage- also
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He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
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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.
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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 […].
Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
Usage- of a question
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That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
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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.
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.
Usage- of a word or phrase
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"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.
Equipped with numerous options.
Usage- of an item offered for sale
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She went all out; her new car is loaded.
Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
Usage- Colloquial
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loaded fries
loaded potato wedges
Weighted with lead or similar.
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a loaded cane or whip
Adjective
filled with a great quantity
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a tray loaded with dishes
table laden with food
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‘ladened’ is not current usage
(of weapons) charged with ammunition
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a loaded gun
(of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence
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a loaded question
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
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an affluent banker
a speculator flush with cash
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not merely rich but loaded
moneyed aristocrats
wealthy corporations
a substantial family
very drunk