Lease vs Leash - What's the difference?
lease | leash |
(chiefly dialectal) to gather.
(chiefly dialectal) to pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean.
(chiefly dialectal) to glean, gather up leavings.
false; lying; deceptive
To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
an open pasture or common
*1928 , Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much :
*:Since as a child I used to lie
*:Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
*:Never, I own, expected I
*:That life would all be fair.
To release; let go; unloose.
To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
To take or hold by lease.
To grant a lease; to let or rent.
A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent
The period of such a contract
A leasehold
The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
* Shakespeare
A brace and a half; a tierce.
A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
* 1597 , , by Shakespeare
* 1663 ,
* Ben Jonson
* Tennyson
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(surfing) A leg rope.
To fasten or secure with a leash.
(figuratively) to curb, restrain
* 1919 , :
As verbs the difference between lease and leash
is that lease is to gather while leash is to fasten or secure with a leash.As nouns the difference between lease and leash
is that lease is falsehood; a lie while leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.As an adjective lease
is false; lying; deceptive.lease
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Verb
(leas)- (Dryden)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) leas, lees, les, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(leas)Etymology 4
From (etyl) lese, from (etyl) . See also (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
From (etyl) lesen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(leas)Etymology 6
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(leas)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 7
From (leash)Noun
Anagrams
* English contranyms ----leash
English
Noun
(es)- like a fawning greyhound in the leash
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
- It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
- [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
- Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
- 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].
Synonyms
* (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)Verb
(es)- Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.