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loaded | rife |

As a verb loaded

is (load).

As an adjective loaded

is burdened by some heavy load; packed.

As a proper noun rife is

(region in northern morocco).

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 .

    Related terms

    * loaded for bear

    rife

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
    • Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
  • * Milton
    • The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
    • The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
    • They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
  • Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
    • These woodlands are rife with red deer.
  • (obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
  • * J. Webster
    • What! I am rife a little yet.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Plentifully, abundantly.
    • The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.

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