See also: Lādīng

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈleɪdɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

Noun

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lading (countable and uncountable, plural ladings)

  1. (countable) The action of loading.
    Synonym: loading
  2. (uncountable) Shipment, cargo, freight.
    Synonyms: freight, load, payload, shipment, consignment
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, [], London: [] W[illiam] Taylor [], →OCLC:
      the ship remained there, in providing his lading and preparing for his voyage, nearly three months []
    • 2023, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, Rail transportation safety investigation report R19T0107[1]:
      The B-end of car DJJX 30478 [] was relatively intact but was surrounded by scrap steel lading from the car, which had been released to the track surface [] The bathtub gondola car structural features produced a car that could carry more lading and provided a relatively obstruction-free car interior which, when combined with the rotary dump feature, permitted the free-flow of granular lading and rapid evacuation of the load with little or no residue left in the car.
  3. (figuratively) Burden.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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lading

  1. present participle and gerund of lade

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From laden +‎ -ing.

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Noun

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lading f (plural ladingen, diminutive ladinkje n)

  1. cargo
  2. charge, tension
  3. (electricity) charge
  4. (figuratively) undertone, undercurrent

Descendants

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: lai
  • Negerhollands: ladiṅ
  • Indonesian: lading
  • Aukan: lai
  • Saramaccan: lái
  • Sranan Tongo: lai
    • Caribbean Javanese: lai

Anagrams

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Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈla.diŋ/, [ˈla.dɪŋ]
  • Rhymes: -dɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: la‧ding

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦢꦶꦁ (lading, knife).

Noun

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lading (plural lading-lading, first-person possessive ladingku, second-person possessive ladingmu, third-person possessive ladingnya)

  1. knife

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Dutch lading (cargo; charge, tension).

Noun

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lading (plural lading-lading, first-person possessive ladingku, second-person possessive ladingmu, third-person possessive ladingnya)

  1. (nautical) cargo
    Synonym: muatan
  2. (nautical) longboat, usually made from a whole tree trunk
  3. (geology) pyroclastic flow, volcanic ash, tephra
    Synonyms: awan panas, lading, ladu, lahar

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Javanese

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Romanization

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lading

  1. Romanization of ꦭꦢꦶꦁ

Makasar

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lading (Lontara spelling ᨒᨉᨗ)

  1. knife