Lame vs Deface - What's the difference?
lame | deface | Related terms |
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 ,
To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
* 1869:
To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
* 1776:
(heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
Lame is a related term of deface.
As a noun lame
is sea.As a verb deface is
to damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.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.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lame, from (etyl) lamina.Etymology 3
References
Anagrams
* ----deface
English
Verb
(defac)- That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
- He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
- One-and-twenty worn and defaced' shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and ' defaced too, but seldom so much so.
- You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.