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lace¹
- /leɪs/ UK, US
Rhymes with -eɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
noun laces
- A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
- A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. your laces are untied, do them up!
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. The king had ſnared been in loues ſtrong lace, [...]
- Spirits added to coffee or another beverage. He is forced every Morning to drink his Dish of Coffee by itself, without the Addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than Lace to it.
lace²
- /leɪs/ UK, US
Rhymes with -eɪs
Where it comes from
From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
verb laces · lacing · laced
- To fasten (something) with laces. When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
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To interweave items.
to lace one's fingers together
Similar: entwine, interlace, interweave, betwine, braid, entwist, interthread, intertwine, intertwist, lace, lock, raddle
- To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel. For these and other reasons, you may want to lace a new rim onto an existing hub, or vice versa. For some reason, probably because of the maze and complex angles of spokes, lacing and building a wheel has for years been a virtual mystery to even skilled home bike mechanics.
- To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. I'll Lace your Coat for ye.
- To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. cloth laced with silver
- To intersperse or diversify with something. The throne speech opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism.
- To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble a lace. The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lace up, plait, spike, enlace, interlace, entwine, intertwine, twine, fortify, braid, shoelace, shoestring, shift, shoe, tie, thrash
Translations
Every language
noun fabric
| Español | encaje, blonda, puntilla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 레이스 reiseu |
| 日本語 | レース rēsu |
| 中文 | 花邊 /花边 huābiān |
| Português | renda |
| Français | dentelle |
| Deutsch | Spitze |
| Italiano | pizzo, merletto |
| Ελληνικά | δαντέλα dantéla |
| Română | dantelă |
| Русский | кру́жево krúževo |
| Tiếng Việt | đăng ten |
| العربية | دَانْتِيل dāntīl |
| עברית | תַּחֲרָה |
verb interweave the spokes
| Deutsch | einspeichen |
|---|
verb fasten with laces
| 中文 | 繫 /系 jì |
|---|---|
| Português | enlaçar, laçar |
| Français | lacer |
| Deutsch | schnüren, binden, zusammenbinden, flechten, verflechten, verlitzen |
| Italiano | allacciare, legare |
| Русский | прониза́ть pronizátʹ, прокры́ть prokrýtʹ, связа́ть svjazátʹ |
| العربية | شَدَّ šadda, دَمَجَ damaja, رَبَطَ rabaṭa |
verb add something harmful to
| Español | envenenar |
|---|---|
| Português | envenenar |
| Deutsch | zugeben, versetzen, verunreinigen, kontaminieren, dotieren, infizieren |
| Italiano | combinare, abbinare, alterare, avvelenare, contaminare, manomettere |
| Русский | подмеша́ть podmešátʹ, смеша́ть smešátʹ, напои́ть napoítʹ, запра́вить zaprávitʹ, напо́лнить napólnitʹ, пропита́ть propitátʹ |
| العربية | لَوَّثَ lawwaṯa |
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title = {lace},
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