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Leat vs Lect - What's the difference?

leat | lect |

As nouns the difference between leat and lect

is that leat is an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace while lect is (linguistics|sociolinguistics) a specific form of a language or : a language or a dialect.

leat

English

Noun

(wikipedia leat) (en noun)
  • an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    lect

    English

    (wikipedia lect)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics, sociolinguistics) A specific form of a language or : a language or a dialect.
  • * 1980 , Frederick B. Agard, The Genealogy of the French Language'', published in ''Contributions to historical linguistics (ISBN 90-04-06130-4), page 222:
    • These, together with (some) Romansh lects', belong to our West Rhaetian; the /?/ also supported by two '''lects''' from the Ticino which by our criteria are NWIt, and by the partially umlauting '''lects''' of Lombardy which together with (some) Engadine ' lects belong to our East Rhaetian.

    Usage notes

    The term is used when it is not possible or preferable to decide whether something is a distinct language or only a dialect of a language.

    Synonyms

    * variety

    Derived terms

    * lectal