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Loaded vs Discharged - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between loaded and discharged

is that loaded is (load) while discharged is (discharge).

As an adjective loaded

is burdened by some heavy load; packed.

loaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (load)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
  • Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
  • * 1737 , The Gentleman's Magazine , Volume 7, page 780,
  • 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 ;
  • * 1812 , Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 8, page 118,
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  • * 1888 , , XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture,
  • and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.
  • * 1913 , ,
  • 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.
  • * 2011 , Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy , page 15,
  • What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.
  • (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed.
  • No funny business; this heater's loaded !
  • (slang) Possessing great wealth.
  • He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded .
  • (slang) Drunk.
  • By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded .
  • (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
  • It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
  • (gaming, of a die or dice, also used figuratively) Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
  • He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
  • * 1996 , Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex , 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.
  • * 1997 , , Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography , 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.
  • * 2009 , Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes , 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 .
  • (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
  • That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
  • (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.
  • "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
  • * 2993 , L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style , page 30,
  • 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.
  • Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.
  • She went all out; her new car is loaded .

    discharged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (discharge)

  • discharge

    English

    Verb

    (discharg)
  • To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 1
  • O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
  • To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
  • * Dryden
  • Discharged of business, void of strife.
  • * L'Estrange
  • In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty.
  • To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If he had / The present money to discharge the Jew.
  • To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
  • * Macaulay
  • The order for Daly's attendance was discharged .
  • To expel or let go.
  • * H. Spencer
  • Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
  • To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They do discharge their shot of courtesy.
  • (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
  • To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Discharge the common sort / With pay and thanks.
  • * Milton
  • Grindal was discharged the government of his see.
  • # (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
  • # (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
  • To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
  • to discharge a prisoner
  • To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
  • * Knolles
  • The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
  • I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.
  • To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
  • To unload a ship or another means of transport.
  • To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
  • to discharge a cargo
  • To give forth; to emit or send out.
  • A pipe discharges water.
  • To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
  • He discharged a horrible oath.
  • (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Noun

    (wikipedia discharge)
  • (symptom) (uncountable ) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology
  • the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
  • Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge .
  • the act of expelling or letting go
  • (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge
  • (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital
  • (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service
  • (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second)