Loaded vs Washed - What's the difference?
loaded | washed |
(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,
* 1913 , ,
* 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 ,
* 1997 , , Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography ,
* 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.
(wash)
To clean with water.
To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
To clean oneself with water.
To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
* Milton
* Longfellow
To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
(figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
* 2012 , (The Economist), Oct 13th 2012 issue,
To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
A liquid used for washing.
The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
(arts) A smooth and translucent .
The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
The wake of a moving ship.
The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
* Mortimer
A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
* Shakespeare
A shallow body of water.
In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
* 1997 , Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
* 1999 , Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
* 2005 , Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
An situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
* 2003 , David Brenner, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup , page 100:
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(nautical) The blade of an oar.
The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
As verbs the difference between loaded and washed
is that loaded is (load) while washed is (wash).As an adjective loaded
is burdened by some heavy load; packed.loaded
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
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 ;
page 118,
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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.
page 15,
- 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.
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.
- She went all out; her new car is loaded .
washed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*wash
English
Verb
- Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- Waves wash the shore.
- fresh-blown roses washed with dew
- [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
- The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes .
- steel washed with silver
Usage notes
In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh'' and ''woosh'' may be found as past tense forms. ''Washen may be found as a past participle.Derived terms
* dishwasher * jetwash * wash away * wash down * washed up / all washed up * washer * wash off * wash one's hands of * wash out * wash over * wash upNoun
(washes)- I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
- My jacket needs a wash .
- There's a lot in that wash : maybe you should split it into two piles.
- I could hear the wash of the wave.
- The ship left a big wash
- Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
- mouth wash
- hand wash
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.
- These Lincoln washes have devoured them.
- In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
- ... though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
- Rock Spring Wash' continues a short distance then joins Watson '''Wash'''. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn ' wash and disappears into the sand
- I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.
- (Shakespeare)