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Lash vs Connect - What's the difference?

lash | connect |

As verbs the difference between lash and connect

is that lash is to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one or lash can be to bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten while connect is (of an object) to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

As a noun lash

is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

As an adjective lash

is (obsolete) remiss, lax.

lash

English

Etymology 1

(en)

Noun

(es)
  • The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
  • (label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
  • A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
  • A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
  • * (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
  • The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
  • A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
  • In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
  • In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
  • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward.
  • To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
  • the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
    And big waves lash the frighted shores.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.}}
  • To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
  • He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws.
  • To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
  • to lash vice
  • To ply the whip; to strike.
  • To utter censure or sarcastic language.
  • To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.
  • (of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.}}

    See also

    * lash out

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
  • to lash something to a spar
    lash a pack on a horse's back
    (to bind with a rope) * Finnish: (trans-mid) * Jèrriais: (t) (trans-bottom)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
  • (obsolete) Relaxed.
  • Soft, watery, wet.
  • * 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
  • (Ulster) excellent, wonderful
  • ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !
    That Chinese (food) was lash !
  • Drunk.
  • connect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
  • (of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
  • *, chapter=7
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
  • To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
  • To associate.
  • To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
  • Antonyms

    * disconnect