Lac vs Secular - What's the difference?
lac | secular |
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"
Not specifically religious.
Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
Happening once in an age or century.
Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
* 2006 , The Economist,
(literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
* 1899 ,
(astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
* 2000 , S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy'', in ''New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
As nouns the difference between lac and secular
is that lac is lake while secular is a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.As an adjective secular is
not specifically religious.lac
English
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, caddysecular
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- secular clergy in Catholicism
- The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
- The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
- ''on a secular basis
Economics focus: Dividing the pie
- The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
- The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
- The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?? and ?? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
Synonyms
* (not religious) worldlyAntonyms
* nonsecular * (not religious) religious * (not religious) sacred (used especially of music) * (not bound by monastic vows) monastic * (not bound by monastic vows) regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism) * eternal, everlasting * frequent * unpredictable * non-recurring * (finance) short-term * (finance) cyclicalReferences
*Webster's English Dictionary
Noun
(en noun)- (Burke)
- (Busby)
