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Lase vs Lee - What's the difference?

lase | lee |

As a verb lase

is .

As a proper noun lee is

for someone who lived near a meadow (the anglo-saxon for meadow being ley or leag).

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

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    lee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  • (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  • A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
  • the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
  • * Morte d'Arthure
  • We lurked under lee .
  • * Tyndall
  • Desiring me to take shelter in his lee .

    Derived terms

    * alee * leeward * leeway

    See also

    * lees

    Anagrams

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