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Lathed vs Lashed - What's the difference?

lathed | lashed |

As verbs the difference between lathed and lashed

is that lathed is (lathe) while lashed is (lash).

lathed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lathe)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    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.

    • See also

    * lath * turner

    Anagrams

    *

    lashed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lash)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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.