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Fac vs Lac - What's the difference?

fac | lac |

As nouns the difference between fac and lac

is that fac is a large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book while lac is lake.

fac

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (military, aviation) Forward air controller.
  • Flow-accelerated corrosion.
  • flow-assisted corrosion.
  • Fellow of the Atlantic Council.
  • Friday after class.
  • Fatal accident control.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    lac

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca , a scale-shaped insect.
  • Derived terms
    * Ceylon lac * lac dye * lac lake * Mexican lac * seedlac * shellac * sticklac

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * lakh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).
  • Etymology 3

    From Cadillac.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Short for Cadillac.
  • Last night I was driving around in my lac .
  • * 1992 , Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin , Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
  • Macs drive lacs .

    Synonyms

    * (Cadillac) caddie, caddy