loaded
Meaning of loaded
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
- To put a load on something.
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
- To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
The containers load quickly and easily.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
The cartridge was designed to load easily.
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
This program takes an age to load.
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
He walks to load the bases.
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
- To provide in abundance.
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To adulterate or drug.
to load wine
- To magnetize.
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
No funny business; this heater's loaded!
- Possessing great wealth.
He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
- Drunk.
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.
It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- (also used figuratively) a die or dice being weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
- (of a word or phrase) 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.
"Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
She went all out; her new car is loaded.
- Covered with a topping or toppings.
loaded fries
- Weighted with lead or similar.
a loaded cane or whip
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Hyphenation of loaded
loaded
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- loaded is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
loaded synonyms
Meaning laden:
Meaning affluent:
affluent, flush, moneyed, wealthy
Meaning besotted:
besotted, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet
Meaning :
crammed, packed, stuffed, armed, primed, fixed, rigged, weighted, leading, charged, freighted, pregnant, deluxe
Words that rhyme with loaded
ambuscaded, arcaded, barricaded, brocaded, cascaded, cavalcaded, facaded, motorcaded, unbarricaded, unbrocaded, uncascaded, unfacaded, addleheaded, adreaded, airheaded, arrowheaded, baldheaded, bareheaded, beaded, beefheaded, beeheaded, beetleheaded, beheaded, besteaded, bigheaded, blackheaded, blockheaded, blunderheaded, boneheaded, botherheaded, breaded, bubbleheaded, buffleheaded, bulkheaded, bulletheaded, bullheaded, burrheaded, cabbageheaded, cholterheaded, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, cleaded, clearheaded, codheaded, coheaded, coolheaded, counterpleaded, crookheaded, deaded, deadheaded