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Purchased vs Loaded - What's the difference?

purchased | loaded |

As verbs the difference between purchased and loaded

is that purchased is (purchase) while loaded is (load).

As an adjective loaded is

burdened by some heavy load; packed.

purchased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (purchase)

    • purchase

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .
  • An individual item one has purchased.
  • The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
    • They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
  • That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
  • That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
    • He was pleased with his latest purchase .
  • (uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
    • It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
  • The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
  • (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
  • (legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
    • (Blackstone)

    Derived terms

    * purchase order * repurchase

    Verb

    (purchas)
  • To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
  • * Spenser
    • that loves the thing he cannot purchase
  • * Shakespeare
    • Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .
  • To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
    • to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house
  • To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
    • to purchase favor with flattery
  • * Shakespeare
    • One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
  • To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
  • To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.
    • to purchase a cannon
  • To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
  • * Ld. Berners
    • Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
  • To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
    • ''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

    Synonyms

    * (buy) procure

    Derived terms

    * purchable * purchasing agent * purchasing power

    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,
    • .
  • * 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