Ladenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈleɪdən/, (colloquial) /ˈleɪdn̩/
• 韻: -eɪdən

形容詞

laden (comparative more laden, superlative most laden)

1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.

2. Heavy.

   His comments were laden with deeper meaning.

   • 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:

     When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.

3. Oppressed.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

4. (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

   Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.

派生語

動詞

laden

1. past participle of lade

動詞

laden (third-person singular simple present ladens, present participle ladening, simple past and past participle ladened)

1. (archaic, poetic) To load or charge.
   • 1889, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 54, number 8, page 357:

     The grass is smoothly cut; the trees are carefully pruned; the flowers, ladening the dreamy air with their perfume, are arranged in studied groups of exquisitely blended colors.

関連する語

• ladle
• ballast
• larboard

アナグラム

• eland, laned, naled, Nelda, Andel, lean'd, lande, Nadel, Dalen, Eland, Alden