Loaded vs Debt - What's the difference?
loaded | debt |
(load)
Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
* 1737 , The Gentleman's Magazine , Volume 7,
* 1812 , Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 8,
* 1888 , , XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture,
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* 2011 , Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy ,
(of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed.
(slang) Possessing great wealth.
(slang) Drunk.
(baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
(gaming, of a die or dice, also used figuratively) Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
* 1996 , Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex ,
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* 2009 , Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes ,
(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
(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.
* 2993 , L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style ,
Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.
An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.
* 1589 , (William Shakespeare), Henry IV, Part I , act 1, sc. 3,
* 1850 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), (The Scarlet Letter) , ch. 14,
The state or condition of owing something to another.
Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.
* 1919 , (Upton Sinclair), Jimmie Higgins , ch. 15,
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, title= (legal) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
As a verb loaded
is (load).As an adjective loaded
is burdened by some heavy load; packed.As a noun debt is
an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another.loaded
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
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- With regard to France'' and ''Holland , therefore, I mu?t think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppre??ed with Taxes and Exci?es than the People of this Kingdom ;
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- and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.
- What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.
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- What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
- No funny business; this heater's loaded !
- He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded .
- By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded .
- It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
page 49,
- The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.
page 80,
- If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.
page 224,
- Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies .
- That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
- "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
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- The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.
- She went all out; her new car is loaded .
debt
English
(wikipedia debt)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt
- Of this proud king, who studies day and night
- To answer all the debt he owes to you
- Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
- This long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.
- Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollar debt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
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