Lame vs Lase - What's the difference?
lame | lase |
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 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.
In transitive terms the difference between lame and lase
is that lame is to cause a person or animal to become lame while lase is to use a laser beam on, as for cutting.As an adjective lame
is unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.As a noun lame
is a lamina.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
* ----lase
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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."