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Definition: Unloaded |
UnloadedAdjective1. (of weapons) not charged with ammunition; "many people are killed by guns thought to be unloaded". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unloaded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Antonym: loaded (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Facility | Unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled; unrestrained; (free); at ease, light. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A little unloaded gun makes him feel better. (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Women carry unloaded guns in their purses. (Look Who's Talking Too; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Camp being unloaded from helicopter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Shoran station being unloaded through surf at Nushagak Bay Party off of PATHFINDER Photo No. 1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | After the basket is unloaded, the fish are channeled into a chute that leads to a freezer compartment. Here the fish are dropping into it. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Mackerel being unloaded, salted, and barreled at the Boston Fish Pier. F&WL 12,351. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Hogs being unloaded into stock yard. Credit: USDA. |  | Peanuts unloaded at dryer. Credit: USDA. |
 | Medicine - Military - Equipment : Medical equipment unloaded from cart. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Patient is unloaded from Coast Guard rescue helicopter]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Line engraving published in a contemporary magazine, showing the ship being unloaded at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, following her 3 August 1862 capture by USS Santiago de Cuba. The print features individual views of her cargo of field and naval artillery, Enfield rifle muskets, artillery ammunition and equipment, and of the interior of one of her cabins. This ship served as USS Columbia in 1862-1863. Credit: NAVY. |  | Unloading a carload of oranges and grapefruit, donated to the Red Cross at Lake Wales, Florida, and unloaded for the drought sufferers around Cleveland, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture). (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The truck rattled along the highway, and now that it was unloaded, every part of it rattled and clashed. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | General cargo are unloaded to quayside or reloaded to trains, trailers or lighters by private stevedores. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | Petroleum can be unloaded at an offshore buoy connected to the RASA (Esso-Shell) petroleum refinery. (references) |
Comoros | Long-distance, ocean-going ships must lie offshore and be unloaded by smaller boats; during the cyclone season, this procedure is dangerous, and ships are reluctant to call at the island. (references) | |
Peru | Companies locating in ZOTAC pay only 8 percent customs duties (normal rates are 12 or 20 percent) on goods unloaded at the ports of Ilo and Matarani, and are exempt from the sales (IGV), Municipal Promotion (IPM) and excise (ISC) taxes. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Goods in transit need only be listed on the vessel or aircraft manifest and do not have to be unloaded. (references) |
Jordan | All shipping documentation must be submitted to the free zone authorities within 72 hours of arrival and before the shipment is unloaded. (references) | |
Korea | Import declarations may be filed at the Customs House before a vessel enters the ports, or before the goods are unloaded into bonded areas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unloaded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 74.71% of the time. "Unloaded" is used about 170 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 74.71% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.24% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.06% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 170 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unloaded": be unloaded ♦ goods unloaded from a road vehicle ♦ goods unloaded from a seagoing vessel. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
matrix unloaded | 32 |
matrix toy unloaded | 4 |
cancelling driver operations pending unloaded without | 2 |
cabinet speaker unloaded | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unloaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卸载 (unload, unloading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | flere tanke,der er placeret sammen,kaldes et tankbatteri;anlaeg med store staaltanke,betegnet oplagringsdepoter,benyttes til mere permanent oplagring i forbindelse med pumpestationer ved olie-eller gasroerledninger,paa steder,hvor tankskibe lastes eller l (and refineries, are used for more permanent storage at pipeline pump stations, known as tank farms, points where tankers are loaded and unloaded, several tanks grouped together are called a tank battery;assemblages of large steel tanks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | enkele tanks bij elkaar worden een tankbatterij genoemd;groeperingen van grote stalen tanks,zgn.tankparken,worden gebruikt voor langere opslag bij pijpleidingpompstations,op plaatsen waar tankers geladen en gelost worden en in raffinaderijen (and refineries, are used for more permanent storage at pipeline pump stations, known as tank farms, points where tankers are loaded and unloaded, several tanks grouped together are called a tank battery;assemblages of large steel tanks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lataamaton (uncharged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | marchandise déchargée d'un véhicule routier (goods unloaded from a road vehicle), marchandise déchargée d'un navire (goods unloaded from a seagoing vessel), le regroupement de plusieurs bacs constitue un centre de stockage;les concentrations de réservoirs en acier de grande capacité,dénommés "parcs de stockage",sont utilisées pour constituer un stockage permanent proche de stations de pompage vers oléod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungeladen (unasked, unbidden, uninvited), entlud, abgeladen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | η ομαδοποίηση πολλών δεξαμενών συνιστά ένα κέντρο δεξαμενών αποθηκεύσεως.Οι συγκεντρώσεις των χαλύβδινων δεξαμενών μεγάλης χωρητικότητα (points where tankers are loaded and unloaded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פרוק (decomposition, discharged, dismantled, liquidation, unloading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bongkaran (unloaded goods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scarico (discharge, discharging, drainage, dumping, escape, exhaust, flat, outgo, outlet, plughole, unloading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 내리" (Dismounted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oadedunlay descãrcat (dumping). (various references) разгружать незагруженный. (various references) nenatovaren, istovaren (unladen), bez tovara. (various references) la agrupacion de varios depositos se denomina bateria de depositos;las concentraciones de grandes depositos de acero,conocidas como parques de depositos se emplean para el almacenamiento mas pr olongado junto a las estaciones de bombeo hacia oleoductos,la (and refineries, are used for more permanent storage at pipeline pump stations, known as tank farms, points where tankers are loaded and unloaded, several tanks grouped together are called a tank battery;assemblages of large steel tanks). (various references) doldurulmamış (uncharged, unfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unloaded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unblooded. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unloaded" (pronounced unlō"dud) |
| 5 | -l ō" d u d | exploded, imploded, loaded, reloaded, unexploded. |
| 4 | -ō" d u d | coded, corroded, encoded, eroded, goaded, outmoded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, ended, enshrouded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: duodenal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: duodena, unladed. | |
-2 letters: dandle, landed, lauded, loaded, loaned, louden, noddle, nodule, undead, unlade, unlead, unload. | |
-3 letters: addle, alone, aloud, anode, anole, dedal, doled, eland, laded, laden, loden, naled, nodal, olden, ulnad, ulnae, unled. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aloe, auld, dado, dale, dead, deal, dean, dole, dona, done, duad, dual, dude, duel, dune, eddo, elan, enol, lade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-n-o-u" | |
+4 letters: demodulating, demodulation, radionuclide, undefoliated. | |
+5 letters: demodulations, radionuclides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6C 6F 61 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-.. --- .- -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101100 01101111 01100001 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n l o a d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006C 006F 0061 0064 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580788167707170 |
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