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Lase vs Lease - What's the difference?

lase | lease |

As verbs the difference between lase and lease

is that lase is while lease is (chiefly dialectal) to gather or lease can be to tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate or lease can be to release; let go; unloose or lease can be to operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).

As an adjective lease is

false; lying; deceptive.

As a noun lease is

falsehood; a lie or lease can be an open pasture or common or lease can be a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent or lease can be the place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

lase

English

Verb

(las)
  • To use a laser beam on, as for cutting.
    • 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.
  • * 2010 (publication date), Daniel Lametti, "The Proton Gets Small(er)", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 67:
    • 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."
  • To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    lease

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • (chiefly dialectal) to gather.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean.
  • (chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
    • (Dryden)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • false; lying; deceptive
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • falsehood; a lie

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an open pasture or common
  • *1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
  • *:Since as a child I used to lie
  • *:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
  • *:Never, I own, expected I
  • *:That life would all be fair.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To release; let go; unloose.

    • Etymology 6

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (leas)
  • To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
  • To take or hold by lease.
  • To grant a lease; to let or rent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
  • The period of such a contract
  • A leasehold

    • Related terms

    * lessor, lessee

    Etymology 7

    From (leash)

    Noun

  • The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

    • Anagrams

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