Lac vs Lase - What's the difference?
lac | lase |
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca , a scale-shaped insect.
(slang) Short for Cadillac.
* 1992 , Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin , Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
To use a laser beam on, as for cutting.
* 2010 (publication date), Daniel Lametti, "The Proton Gets Small(er)", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 67:
To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation.
As a noun lac
is lake.As a verb lase is
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) .Noun
Derived terms
* Ceylon lac * lac dye * lac lake * Mexican lac * seedlac * shellac * sticklacEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* lakhEtymology 3
From Cadillac.Noun
(en noun)- Last night I was driving around in my lac .
- Macs drive lacs .
Synonyms
* (Cadillac) caddie, caddylase
English
Verb
(las)- The surgeon lased the elongated soft palate, cutting off the excess tissue and stopping the blood flow in one swipe.
- The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.
- When a laser zaps an electron orbiting a proton, the electron undergoes what is called the Lamb shift, absorbing energy and jumping to a higher energy level. But instead of lasing electrons, Knowles examined protons with particles called muons, which he calls "the electon's fat cousin."