Lase vs Lapse - What's the difference?
lase | lapse |
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.
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
As a verb lase
is .As a noun lapse is
.lase
English
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."
Anagrams
* ----lapse
English
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.
