Latest vs Ladest - What's the difference?
latest | ladest |
(late)
Last, final.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
Most recent.
At the latest.
The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
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(archaic) (lade)
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To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
* Bible, Genesis xlii. 26
To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
* Shakespeare
To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
(nautical) To admit water by leakage.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
(Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
(Webster 1913)
As an adjective latest
is superlative of late.As an adverb latest
is superlative of late POS=adverb.As a noun latest
is the most recent thing, particularly information or news.As a verb ladest is
archaic second-person singular of lade.latest
English
Adjective
(-)- Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
- Here is the latest news on the accident.
Adverb
(head)- Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
Noun
(en noun)- Have you heard the latest ?
- What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
- Have you met Jane's latest ? I hear he's a hunk.
Anagrams
*ladest
English
Verb
(head)lade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), akin to (etyl) ).Verb
- And they laded their asses with the corn.
- to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern
- And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, / Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way.
Etymology 2
English dialect, a ditch or drain. Compare (lode), (lead) to conduct.Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Gibson)
