LADE (laden)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: laden   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does lade mean? 

• LADE (verb)
  The verb LADE has 2 senses:

1. remove with or as if with a ladle

2. fill or place a load on

  Familiarity information: LADE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lade    ... he / she / it lades   
Past simple: laded   
Past participle: laded    / laden   
-ing form: lading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove with or as if with a ladle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lade; laden; ladle

Context example:

ladle the water out of the bowl

Hypernyms (to "lade" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lade"):

slop (ladle clumsily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill or place a load on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lade; laden; load; load up

Context example:

load the truck with hay

Hypernyms (to "lade" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lade"):

load down; pack (load with a pack)

bomb up (load an aircraft with bombs)

overcharge; overload; surcharge (place too much a load on)

reload (place a new load on)

stack (load or cover with stacks)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Sentence example:

They lade the cart with boxes

Derivation:

lading (goods carried by a large vehicle)

 Context examples 

Lipid-laden macrophages originating from monocytes or from smooth muscle cells.

(Foam Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is characterized by the presence of mononuclear cells, multinucleated osteoclast-like giant cells, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, foam cells, and an inflammatory infiltrate.

(Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the proliferation in the tissues of lipid-laden macrophages and the presence of multinucleated giant cells.

(Erdheim-Chester Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

In two hours the boat, which went laden with vessels of water, returned, with the captain’s command to fetch me on board.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Things that happen at an eclipse tend to be laden with meaning, and at the same time, give you a preview of your future.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I am wont to come back this way more laden than I went.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I see trees laden with ripening fruit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We shifted our position from among the tick-laden bushes until we came to a small clearing thickly surrounded by trees upon all sides.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Benign disorder of infants and children characterized by multiple nodules with lipid-laden, non-Langerhans-cell histiocytes.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)