lade

verb \ ˈlād \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Examples: lade in a Sentence

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Definition of lade

laded; laded or laden play \ˈlā-dᵊn\; lading

transitive verb

1 a : to put a load or burden on or in : load

b : to put or place as a load especially for shipment : ship

c : to load heavily or oppressively

2 : dip, ladle

intransitive verb

1 : to take on cargo : load

a place for ships to lade

2 : to take up or convey a liquid by dipping

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Examples of lade in a Sentence

the cook laded the stew into small bowls
the trucks were heavily laden with produce for the market

Recent Examples of lade from the Web

Like most of the top corporate A.I. labs, which are laden with former and current academics, Google openly publishes much of its A.I. research.

— daisuke wakabayashi, New York Times, "Google Promises Its A.I. Will Not Be Used for Weapons," 7 June 2018
In that, with her scandal behind her, Kimmy attends a tech conference laden with bros and groanworthy jargon.

— megan angelo, Glamour, "Kimmy Schmidt Is TV's Most Unlikely #MeToo Villain," 7 June 2018
Its roof and a projecting terrace were laden with flowers and the air smelled of plants growing.

— patrick j. mcdonnell, latimes.com, "Preservation effort makes Hemingway's Cuba home look like he never left," 30 May 2018
In this case, it’s suan cai yu, a spicy and sour soup of small curls of fish fillet in a broth laden with Sichuan peppercorns, dried chile peppers, and pickled vegetables.

— jim thurman, Los Angeles Magazine, "A China Chain’s Pricey Bowls of Sauerkraut Fish Soup Have Landed in the SGV," 24 May 2018
Iron Man was laden with visual effects, sure, but unlike Speed Racer its hero felt grounded in the real world, a chrome-plated savior for more ordinary woes.

— david sims, The Atlantic, "The New Hollywood Speed Racer Didn't See Coming," 14 May 2018
Bonus points for the rapper and producer who sported a neck laden with colorful crosses, adding pizazz to his suit.

— liana satenstein, Vogue, "The Best Fashion Instagrams of the Week: Kendall Jenner Is “Heavenly Hungover” and More," 12 May 2018
More than 3,000 people were killed in Ryongchon, near the Chinese border, in April 2004, when trains laden with combustible material exploded because of a collision or an electrical malfunction.

— russell goldman, New York Times, "Bulletproof, Slow and Full of Wine: Kim Jong-un’s Mystery Train," 27 Mar. 2018
It is laden with nostalgia and seems to enshrine science and measurement within an eternal bubble.

— julia couzens, sacbee, "A witty and deep showcase of Jewish artists' contributions to California art history | The Sacramento Bee," 6 Apr. 2018

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Did You Know?

Most of us know lade in its past participle form laden, as shown in our examples. Likely also familiar is the adjective laden, best distinguished from the verb by its placement before nouns, as in "laden ships" or "a laden heart." (The adjective is also at work in hyphenated terms like "sugar-laden.") Lade has been in use for more than a millennium and formerly had a nominal counterpart: the noun lade meaning "load" or "cargo" dates from around the same time but hasn't been in use since the early 16th century. A few short decades after it faded from active use, the noun lading took on the same meaning. Lading is still in use and appears most often in "bill of lading"-a term referring to a document that lists goods being shipped and specifies the terms of their transport.