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Definition of Loaded

1. Adjective. Filled with a great quantity. "`ladened' is not current usage"

2. Adjective. (of weapons) charged with ammunition. "A loaded gun"

3. Adjective. (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence. "A loaded question"

4. Adjective. Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value. "Wealthy corporations"

5. Adjective. Very drunk.

Definition of Loaded

1. Verb. (past of load) ¹

2. Adjective. Burdened by some heavy load; packed. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed. ¹

4. Adjective. (slang) Possessing great wealth. ¹

5. Adjective. (slang) Drunk. ¹

6. Adjective. (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases. ¹

7. Adjective. (gaming of a die or dice also used figuratively) Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws. ¹

8. Adjective. (context: of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap. ¹

9. Adjective. (context: 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. ¹

10. Adjective. (context: of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options; deluxe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loaded

1. load [v] - See also: load

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loaded

load-bearing(a) load-shedding load bearing load cast load down load factor load fund load line load management load shedding

load time load up loadable loadbearing loadcast loaded (current term) loaded down loaded down(p) loaded for bear loaded word

loaden loadened loadening loadens loader loaders loadeth loading loading(a) loading area

Literary usage of Loaded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"Six camels loaded with iron frames, in which they make fires. ... Four loaded camels. 26. One camel with kettle-drums on it, and two men, each beating a ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"loaded WAINS. FROM the broad fields, their golden glory shorn, And sunny uplands, of their beauty reft, Through the still sunlight of the autumn morn. ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Before the loaded car had been attached to any train or engine It was destroyed by fire. The shipper sued In a state court of Mississippi to recover the ..."

4. The Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Electrical Engineering Problems by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1912)
"64, for any given line loaded or unloaded — Let /?j be the argument of the vector conductor impedance z. Let /?2 be the argument of the vector dielectric ..."

5. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... that I immediately ordered five guns to be loaded with finall fhot, and four with great; and gave them fuch • a ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... illustrated by the behaviour of such a material as a wooden lath supported at both ends, and bent by being either loaded by a weight at the middle (Fig. ..."

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