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Lased vs Laved - What's the difference?

lased | laved |

As verbs the difference between lased and laved

is that lased is past tense of lase while laved is past tense of lave.

lased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lase)

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    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.

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    laved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lave)

    • lave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (lav)
  • (obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
    • (Dryden)
  • To draw, as water; drink in.
  • To give bountifully; lavish.
  • To run down or gutter, as a candle.
  • (dialectal) To hang or flap down.
  • (ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
  • * 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
    • the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
  • * 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
    • The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
    Related terms
    * lather * launder * laundry * lavender * lavish * lavy * lye

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
    • Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
  • * 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
    • Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...

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