Lapse vs Phase - What's the difference?
lapse | phase |
A temporary failure; a slip.
* Rogers
A decline or fall in standards.
* Rambler
A pause in continuity.
An interval of time between events.
* I. Taylor
A termination of a right etc, through disuse or neglect.
(weather) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air. This condition usually occurs when skies are clear and between 1100 and 1600 hours, local time. Strong convection currents exist during lapse conditions. For chemical operations, the state is defined as unstable. This condition is normally considered the most unfavorable for the release of chemical agents. See lapse rate.
(legal) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is ed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
(theology) A fall or apostasy.
To fall away gradually; to subside.
* Jonathan Swift
* Addison
To fall into error or heresy.
* Shakespeare
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
To become void.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
* Ayliffe
A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
(astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets''. Illustrated in .
(physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
(chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
(rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
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(genetics) A haplotype.
To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
(genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
To pass into or through a solid object.
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As nouns the difference between lapse and phase
is that lapse is a temporary failure; a slip while phase is a distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.As verbs the difference between lapse and phase
is that lapse is to fall away gradually; to subside while phase is to begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).As a proper noun phase is
passover.lapse
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Noun
(en noun)- to guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us
- The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible.
- Francis Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame.
Synonyms
* blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, mistake, slip, stumble, thinkoDerived terms
* time-lapse (common law rule) * anti-lapseVerb
(laps)- a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
- Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.
- To lapse in fullness / Is sorer than to lie for need.
- If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
Anagrams
* ----phase
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Etymology 1
From ; compare phantasm and see face.Noun
(en noun)- The problem has many phases .
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Verb
(phas)- The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased''' out as the new models were '''phased in.
