lade

See also: Lade, ladé, and läde

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: laid

Etymology 1

From Middle English laden, from Old English hladan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną ‎(“to load”).

Verb

lade (third-person singular simple present lades, present participle lading, simple past laded, past participle laden or laded)

1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
   • Bible, Genesis xlii. 26

     And they laded their asses with the corn.

2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).

   to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern

   • Shakespeare

     And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.

4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
5. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.

Related terms

• bill of lading
• lading

Translations

To fill or load

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝載 (zh), 装载 (zh) ‎(zhuāngzài), 裝貨 (zh), 装货 (zh) ‎(zhuānghuò)

• Finnish: lastata (fi)

• French: charger (fr)
• German: beladen (de)

To weigh down, oppress, or burden

• Finnish: painaa (fi)

To use a ladle or dipper to remove something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舀出

Etymology 2

From Middle English lad, from Old English lād, from Proto-Germanic *laidō ‎(“a way, course”). Related to lode, lead ‎(“to conduct”).

Noun

lade (plural lades)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Gibson to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
3. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• Adel
• dale, Dale
• deal
• E.D. La.
• lead

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Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aðə

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hlaða.

Noun

lade c ( singular definite laden, plural indefinite lader)

1. (agriculture) barn (building)

Inflection

Declension of lade

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lade	laden	lader	laderne
genitive	lades	ladens	laders	ladernes

Etymology 2

From Old Danish latæ, from Old Norse láta, from Proto-Germanic *lētaną.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense lod, past participle ladet or ladt)

1. let (to allow)
2. leave (to transfer responsibility or attention)
3. have (cause to, by command or request)
4. have (cause to be)
5. make (force to do)
6. pretend
7. seem, appear

Usage notes

In case of lade vandet ‎(“urinate”), past tense is ladede.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, past tense ladede, past participle ladet)

1. load
2. charge

Usage notes

In relation to guns, the past participle is ladt.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch lade ‎(“little box”), from a variant related to Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Cognate with Old Norse hlaða ‎(“barn”), English lathe. Related to Dutch laden, English lade.

Noun

lade f (plural laden or lades, diminutive ladetje n)

1. (dated) Alternative form of la

References

Derived terms

• ladekast

Verb

lade

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of laden

Anagrams

• adel, dale

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːdə/
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Verb

lade

1. First-person singular present of laden.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of laden.
4. Imperative singular of laden.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną.

Alternative forms

• la

Verb

lade (imperative lad, present tense lader, passive lades, simple past lada or ladet or ladde, past participle lada or ladet or ladd, present participle ladende)

1. (electricity) to charge (e.g. a battery)
2. to load (a weapon)

Related terms

• lader (noun)

References

• “lade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑː(dɛ)/

Verb

lade

1. past tense of lägga.

Anagrams

• leda
• dela
• adel