laden

See lade.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdən/, (colloquial) /ˈleɪdn̩/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdən

laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:

     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.

2. Heavy.

   His comments were laden with deeper meaning.

3. Oppressed.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, 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; […].

4. (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.

laden

1. past participle of lade

• ladle
• ballast
• larboard

• Alden, Dalen, Eland, Nadel, Nelda, eland, lande, laned, lean'd, naled

laden c

1. definite singular of lade
2. verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), letting, having, making, seeming, pretending
3. verbal noun to lade (singular definite form only), loading, charging

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: la‧den
• Rhymes: -aːdən

From Middle Dutch lāden, from Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

laden

1. to load (cargo, a weapon, data)
2. to charge (with electricity)

• laadpaal
• laadstation
• laadschop
• beladen
• herladen
• inladen
• opladen
• overladen
• uitladen

• Negerhollands: ladin
• Petjo: lajen
• → Caribbean Hindustani: láde
• → Saramaccan: lái
• → Sranan Tongo: lai
  • → Arawak: laidin

From Middle Dutch lāden, from Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”), from Proto-Germanic *laþōną (“to call”).

laden

1. (archaic) to convocate
2. (archaic) to invite

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

laden

1. Plural form of lade
2. Plural form of la

• dalen, eland, lande

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdən/, [-dən], [-dn̩]
• Hyphenation: la‧den

From Middle High German laden (strong verb), from Old High German hladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan. Compare English laden.

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up

   Antonyms: abladen, ausladen, herausholen, herausnehmen, herunternehmen, löschen

2. (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
3. (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
4. (transitive, computing) to download from a network
5. (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

• (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

• Lade
• Laden
• Lader
• Ladung
• lästig

From Middle High German laden (weak verb, but also strong) from Old High German ladon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn.

laden (class 6 strong, third-person singular present lädt, past tense lud, past participle geladen, past subjunctive lüde, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to invite

   Synonym: einladen

2. (transitive, law) to summon

• In historical texts, weak forms such as ladest, ladet, ladete and geladet are also found.

• ausladen
• einladen
• vorladen

• Laden

• “laden” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “laden” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “laden” in Duden online
• “laden” in Duden online

• lande, Lande, Nadel

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon hladan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdn̩/, /ˈlaːdən/

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to load (something) e.g. into a container or onto a vehicle, to load up
2. (transitive, intransitive, weaponry) to load (some weapon)
3. (transitive, computing) to load (some data) from a store
4. (transitive, computing) to download from a network
5. (transitive, engineering) to charge (a battery or capacitor) with electricity

• (to load up): opsacken, opladen, oppuckeln, oplasten, opnehmen, oppacken, befrachten, beladen, bepacken, inladen, stauen, ünnerbringen, verladen, verstauen, vullladen, vullpacken
• (to load a weapon): naladen
• (to download): downloaden, rünnerladen, överdregen
• (to charge): opladen, elektriseren

• (to load up): afladen, utladen, ruthalen, rutnehmen, rünnernehmen, löschen

From Middle Low German lāden, from Old Saxon lathōn.

laden (past singular laad, past participle laadt or laden, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. (transitive) to invite (someone)
2. (transitive, law) to summon

• (to invite): inladen

• utladen
• inladen
• vörladen

laden

1. to serve, attend

From Old Dutch *ladan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan.

lāden

1. to load (goods)
2. to load (onto a beast of burden)
3. to burden (with a task)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: laden
• Limburgish: laaje

From Old Dutch lathon, from Proto-West Germanic *laþōn (“to call”).

lāden

1. (eastern) to call, to summon

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: laden

• “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