name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lade
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /leɪd/
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rhymes with -eɪd
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homophone: laid
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CMU ARPABET: L EY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A coastal hamlet in Lydd parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0820).
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name
Meaning 3
An ancient island off the coast of Miletus; now part of the mainland of Asia Minor.
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noun
Meaning 4
A load.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 5
The mouth of a river.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
Qualifier: obsolete outside of place names
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noun
Meaning 6
A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
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Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
(mill lade) A mill race.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 8
Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
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Usage: Scotland
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verb
Meaning 9
To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
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verb
Meaning 10
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
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verb
Meaning 11
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
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verb
Meaning 12
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
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verb
Meaning 13
To admit water by leakage.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 14
fill or place a load on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- load a car
- load the truck with hay
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: load, laden, load up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
Narrower terms: pack, load down, bomb up, overload, surcharge, overcharge, reload, stack
verb
Meaning 15
remove with or as if with a ladle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- ladle the water out of the bowl
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ladle, laden
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
Narrower terms: slop
History
Etymology
* As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse hlaða (“to stack, pile”). * As a north German surname, variant of Ladwig, Ludwig. * Also as a German surname, from the archaic noun Lade (“chest”). * As an English surname, from Old English lad (“waterway”).
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάδη (Ládē).
From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan and Old English hleadan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaþan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh2- (“to put, lay out”).
From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead (“to conduct”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: yükləmək — To fill or load
- Bulgarian: товаря (tovarja) — To fill or load
- Chinese Mandarin: 裝載 /装载 (zhuāngzài) — To fill or load
- Chinese Mandarin: 裝貨 /装货 (zhuānghuò) — To fill or load
- Czech: naložit — To fill or load
- Dutch: laden — To fill or load
- Finnish: lastata — To fill or load
- French: charger — To fill or load
- German: beladen — To fill or load
- Russian: грузить (gruzitʹ) — To fill or load
- Russian: нагружать (nagružatʹ) — To fill or load
- Bulgarian: натоварвам (natovarvam) — To weigh down, oppress, or burden
- Finnish: painaa — To weigh down, oppress, or burden
- German: belasten — To weigh down, oppress, or burden
- German: beladen — To weigh down, oppress, or burden
- German: aufbürden — To weigh down, oppress, or burden
- Bulgarian: изгребвам (izgrebvam) — To use a ladle or dipper to remove something
- Chinese Mandarin: 舀出 — To use a ladle or dipper to remove something
- German: schöpfen — To use a ladle or dipper to remove something