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- Difference between “laden” and “loaded” - English Language Usage . . .
Laden, on the other hand, has synonyms like "burden", "encumber", and "weight The connotation when you say "the tree was loaded with fruit" is positive: the tree is full of fruit, which means there's plenty to go around
- laden vs. loaded - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
heavily laden: trees heavily laden with fruit A person can be described as "laden with grief", as HotLicks said in his comment In summary, laden is a very old word that is used in the US as a technical term in shipping and in a semi-poetic way, but not used for loaded cars
- Are apple trees loaded or laden with fruit? [duplicate]
Laden adj having or carrying a large amount of something Loaded adj filled with a great quantity Are fruit-trees laden or loaded with fruit?
- Does the Word laden Carry a Negative Connotation?
But when used with other sentences, like, The banks are laden with debt ; Then laden carries a negative connotation, dictionaries describe "laden" as being burdened with something, so does it always carry a negative connotation? Just for the purpose of questioning its usage, what if one were to say, He came in laden with presents
- What is the proper term for when an animal is pregnant with eggs . . .
Specifically things like chicken or most fish @AlainPannetierΦ that's the word for the animals themselves that give birth by eggs (and viviparous describing animals with live births), not the state of the animal right before the proto-animals are expelled The latter is what the OP is looking for, i e the synonym of pregnant but when you're about to pop out some eggs rather than a live child
- Is “have the steel” an idiom in the statement, “Mitt Romney would have . . .
I found the phrase “ have the steel ” in the following sentence of Time magazine’s article (April 30) titled, “Why Obama Owns bin Laden ” “Judging from the Republican response, President Obama's ad asking whether Mitt Romney would have ordered the raid that captured Osama bin Laden raises serious questions There is a kind of biographical line running between those dusty sparring
- literature - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham It means something akin to this, if likely not quite so grand a version is shown in this image which is a simple stick suspended from the beams, but shown how the things stored on it (to keep them away from vermin) could be bulky and stop you seeing the roof beyond
- So which should it be - lock and load or load and lock?
The Wictionary article on 'lock and load' attributes the modern beginnings of its popular use to a John Wayne film in 1949 The script writer at the time is presumably quoting from an instructor manual, dated 1940, which refers to dummy (!) cartridges, reference 3 of the article It is doubtful that the filmed quote refers to 'musquets' (sic) and their peculiarities, reference 1 of the article
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