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LADE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: laden   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill or place a load on

Example:

load the truck with hay

Synonyms:

lade; laden; load; load up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove with or as if with a ladle

Example:

ladle the water out of the bowl

Synonyms:

lade; laden; ladle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells forming nodules in the affected anatomic sites.

(Disseminated Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare neurofibroma characterized by the presence of melanin-laden cells and the absence of atypia.

(Melanotic Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of synovial-like mononuclear cells, hemosiderin-laden macrophages, foam cells, and inflammatory cells.

(Diffuse Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath, NCI Thesaurus)

A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells in the dermis.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

When she saw my face at the window she threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace:—Monster, give me my child!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Since scientists first determined that atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during ice ages than during warm phases, they have looked at why, theorizing that it may be a function of ocean circulation, sea ice, iron-laden dust or temperature.

(Why atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during ice ages, National Science Foundation)

Plumes of the warm, mineral-laden water gush from the seafloor and travel upward, thinning the moon's ice shell from beneath to only half a mile to 3 miles (1 to 5 kilometers) at the south pole. (The average global thickness of the ice is thought to be about 12 to 16 miles, or 20 to 25 kilometers.) And this same water is then expelled into space through fractures in the ice.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

Research in the Niassa National Reserve reveals that by using specialised calls to communicate and cooperate with each other, people and wild birds can significantly increase their chances of locating vital sources of calorie-laden food.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)