Lathe vs Lithe - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between lathe and lithe

is that lathe is (obsolete) a granary; a barn while lithe is (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen.

As verbs the difference between lathe and lithe

is that lathe is to invite; bid; ask or lathe can be to shape with a lathe while lithe is (obsolete) to go or lithe can be (obsolete) to become calm or lithe can be (obsolete) to give ear; attend; listen.

As nouns the difference between lathe and lithe

is that 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 while lithe is (scotland) shelter.

As an adjective lithe is

(obsolete) mild; calm.

lathe

English

(wikipedia lathe)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

To invite; bid; ask.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) *.

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

Etymology 3

(etyl) . More at lade.

Noun

(en noun)

A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

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.

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.

(Chaucer)

Verb

(lath)

To shape with a lathe.

(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.

Anagrams

lithe

English

Etymology 1

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

Verb

(obsolete) To go.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

(obsolete) Mild; calm.

''lithe weather

slim but not skinny

lithe body

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber

the elephant’s lithe proboscis.

* 1861 , , page 125

… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …

Synonyms

* lithesome, lissome,

Etymology 3

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(head)

(obsolete) To become calm.

(obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(lith)

(obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.

To listen to.

Etymology 5

Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) Shelter.

* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :

So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.