lading

See also: Lādīng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

Noun

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.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXV, page 42:

     Nor could I weary, heart or limb,
     ⁠When mighty Love would cleave in twain
     ⁠The lading of a single pain,
     And part it, giving half to him.

Derived terms

• bill of lading
• book of lading
• lading-can

 

Translations

the action of loading

• Bulgarian: натоварване (bg) n (natovarvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝載 / 装载 (zh) (zhuāngzài)

• Russian: погру́зка (ru) f (pogrúzka)

shipment, cargo, freight

• Bulgarian: товар (bg) m (tovar), карго n (kargo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貨物 / 货物 (zh) (huòwù)

• French: chargement (fr) m
• Russian: груз (ru) m (gruz), фрахт (ru) m (fraxt), перево́зка (ru) f (perevózka)

Verb

lading

1. present participle and gerund of lade

Anagrams

• ligand

Dutch

Etymology

From laden +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

lading f (plural ladingen, diminutive ladinkje n)

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

Descendants

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

Anagrams

• daling

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦢꦶꦁ (lading, “knife”).

Noun

lading (plural lading-lading)

1. knife

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lading (plural lading-lading)

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

Further reading

• “lading” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

lading

1. Romanization of ꦭꦢꦶꦁ

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈladiŋ]

Noun

lading (Lontara spelling ᨒᨉᨗ)

1. knife