Lace vs Boot - What's the difference?

lace | boot |

As nouns the difference between lace and boot

is that lace is cheapness while boot is boat.

lace

English

Noun

(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.^(w)

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces .

* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp

, chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace , […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace , complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.^(w)

A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace .

(Fairfax)

(slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

(Addison)

Synonyms

* (cord) ** (for a shoe) shoelace ** (for a garment) tie

Verb

(lac)

(label) To fasten (something) with laces.

* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

When Jenny's stays are newly laced .

(label) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).

(label) To interweave items. (lacing one's fingers together)

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}

(label) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.

* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

I'll lace your coat for ye.

To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* enlace * lace into * lace-up shoes / lace-ups * lacy

Anagrams

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boot

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) boote, .

Noun

(wikipedia boot) (en noun)

A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

A blow with the foot; a kick.

(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.

A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.

(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.

(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

(Australia, British, NZ, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.

* 1998 , , A Sight For Sore Eyes , 2010, page 260,

He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot' and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that ' boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over.

* 2003 , Keith Bluemel, Original Ferrari V-12 1965-1973: The Restorer's Guide , unnumbered page,

The body is constructed of welded steel panels, with the bonnet, doors and boot lid in aluminium on steel frames.

* 2008 , MB Chattelle, Richmond, London: The Peter Hacket Chronicles , page 104,

Peers leant against the outside of the car a lit up her filter tip and watched as Bauer and Putin placed their compact suitcases in the boot' of the BMW and slammed the ' boot lid down.

(computing, informal) The act or process of removing somebody from a chat room.

(British, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman

(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.

Synonyms

* (shoe) buskin, mukluk * (blow with foot) kick * (car storage) trunk (US) * (parking enforcement device) wheel clamp * fired, laid off

Derived terms

* bet one's boots * boot camp * boot cut * Boot Hill * bootless * bootstrap * car boot, car boot sale, boot sale * chewie on ya boot * Denver boot, aka wheel clamp * get the boot * give the boot * horse boot * army boot * Australian boot * Chelsea boot * chukka boot * combat boot * cowboy boot * football boot * go-go boot * gum boot, gumboot * Hessian boot * hiking boot * hip boot * hobnail boot * jackboot * Jesus boots * jump boot, paratrooper boot * jungle boot * knee high boot * kinky boot * Malay boot * motorcycle boot * riding boot * rigger boot * shake in one's boots * shoot the boots * ski boot * snowboard boot * Spanish boot * steel-toe boot * tabi boot * tanker boot * the boot is on the other foot * thigh boot * thigh-high boot * ugg boot, ug boot * walking boot (aka ankle walker) * Wellington boots * work boot

Verb

(en verb)

To kick.

I booted the ball toward my teammate.

To put boots on, especially for riding.

* Ben Jonson

Coated and booted for it.

To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).

(informal) To forcibly eject.

We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible

(slang) To vomit.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.

(computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

* 2002 , Dan Verton, The Hacker Diaries - Page 67

As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel.

* 2003 , John C. Dvorak, Chris Pirillo, Online! - Page 173

Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted .

* 2002 , Jobe Makar, Macromedia Flash Mx Game Design Demystified - Page 544

In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted .

Usage notes

The more common term for “to eject from a chatroom” etc. is kick .

Synonyms

* (kick) hoof, kick * (disconnect from online conversation) kick

Derived terms

* boot up * boot up the backside, boot up the bum

Etymology 2

From (etyl) boote, bote, bot, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* bote

Noun

(dated) remedy, amends

* Sir Walter Scott

Thou art boot for many a bruise / And healest many a wound.

* Wordsworth

next her Son, our soul's best boot

(uncountable) profit, plunder

(obsolete) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense

* Shakespeare

I'll give you boot , I'll give you three for one.

(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.

* Shakespeare

Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot .

Derived terms

* to boot

Verb

(en verb)

to profit, avail, benefit

* Hooker

What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?

* Byron

What subdued / To change like this a mind so far imbued / With scorn of man, it little boots to know.

* Southey

What boots to us your victories?

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

* Shakespeare

And I will boot thee with what gift beside / Thy modesty can beg.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "boot")

Etymology 3

Shortening of (bootstrap).

Noun

(en noun)

(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

It took three boot s, but I finally got the application installed.

Derived terms

* boot disk * boot loader * boot sector * cold boot * dual boot * hot boot * warm boot

Verb

(en verb)

(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.

Derived terms

* reboot

Etymology 4

From , by shortening

Noun

(en noun)

A bootleg recording.

Anagrams

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