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- Difference between “laden” and “loaded” - English Language Usage . . .
Laden, on the other hand, has synonyms like "burden", "encumber", and "weight The connotation when you say "the tree was loaded with fruit" is positive: the tree is full of fruit, which means there's plenty to go around
- Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation?
The usage does imply a burden of some sort, probably with a negative connotation in most cases: Laden: 1) If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them [literary] I came home laden with cardboard boxes 2) If you describe a person or thing as laden with something, particularly something bad, you mean that they have a lot of it We're so laden
- Unladen VS Unloaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
6 laden and loaded both mean "carrying cargo" when used adjectivally and so unladen and unloaded both mean "carrying no cargo" laden is usually used with ships, ships of the sea, air-ships, even ships of the desert, whereas loaded is usually used with vehicles on land
- laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment In summary, laden is a very old word that is used in the US as a technical term in shipping and in a semi-poetic way, but not used for loaded cars
- Colourful Language with regards to swearing
Why is expletive laden, or coarse language often referred to as being colourful colorful? Oxford Dictionaries define it, colourful 2 2 (of language) vulgar or rude ‘colorful words usually
- Are apple trees loaded or laden with fruit? [duplicate]
Laden adj having or carrying a large amount of something Loaded adj filled with a great quantity Are fruit-trees laden or loaded with fruit?
- literature - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham It means something akin to this, if likely not quite so grand a version is shown in this image which is a simple stick suspended from the beams, but shown how the things stored on it (to keep them away from vermin) could be bulky and stop you seeing the roof beyond
- What is the proper term for when an animal is pregnant with eggs . . .
@AlainPannetierΦ that's the word for the animals themselves that give birth by eggs (and viviparous describing animals with live births), not the state of the animal right before the proto-animals are expelled The latter is what the OP is looking for, i e the synonym of pregnant but when you're about to pop out some eggs rather than a live child
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