Lace vs Lame - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.(w)
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 *
(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)
(slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
(label) To fasten (something) with laces.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
(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)
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
(by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
* Barrow
* Shakespeare
(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
(slang) Strangely corny or sweet to an extent.
to cause a person or animal to become lame
* 1877', Anna Sewell, ''Black Beauty'': And if you don't want to ' lame your horse you must look sharp and get them [stones stuck in hooves] out quickly.
* 1913 ,
In transitive terms the difference between lace and lame
is that lace is to interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel while lame is to cause a person or animal to become lame.As an adjective lame is
unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.lace
English
Noun
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces .
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.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace .
- (Fairfax)
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (cord) ** (for a shoe) shoelace ** (for a garment) tieVerb
(lac)- When Jenny's stays are newly laced .
- I'll lace your coat for ye.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* enlace * lace into * lace-up shoes / lace-ups * lacyAnagrams
* ----lame
English
(wikipedia lame)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lame leg, arm or muscle
- a lame endeavour
- O, most lame and impotent conclusion!
- He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.
- He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.
- I told him not to bring me flowers, so he brought a bunch of carrots instead. It was lame but it made me smile.
Usage notes
Referring to a person without a disability as “lame” is offensive to many as it suggests a derogatory characterization of the physical condition from which the term was derived.Synonyms
* (sense, unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs) crippled * (moving with difficulty) * (sense) hobbling, limping, inefficient, imperfect * (sense) unconvincing, unbelievable * uncool, unfunny, uninteresting, irrelevantAntonyms
* (sense, unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs) * (moving with difficulty) * (sense) efficient, perfect * (sense) convincing, believable * cool, funny, interesting, relevantDerived terms
* lame duck * lamage * lamebrain * lamely * lameness * lamestream * lame-oVerb
(lam)- Now her soul felt lamed in itself. It was her hope that was struck.
