What is the difference between lath and lathe?
lath | lathe |
A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
* (English Citations of "lath")
To invite; bid; ask.
(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
Lath is a see also of lathe.
As nouns the difference between lath and lathe
is that lath is a thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc while lathe is (obsolete) an administrative division of the county of kent, in england, from the anglo-saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century or lathe can be a machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.As verbs the difference between lath and lathe
is that lath is to cover or line with laths while lathe is to invite; bid; ask or lathe can be to shape with a lathe.lath
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* lath strapHolonyms
: latticeDerived terms
* lath strapping * lath brick - a long, slender brick, used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln. * lath nail - a slender nail for fastening laths. * lath board * lath plaster * lath and plaster / plaster and lath * lathySee also
* plaster * plasterboard * gypsum plaster * gypsum board * gyprock * sheetrock * wallboard * drywall * cement boardAnagrams
*lathe
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(wikipedia lathe)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
(etyl) . More at lade.Noun
(en noun)- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
- (Chaucer)