Lek vs Ley - What's the difference?
lek | ley |
(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.
* 1975 , , Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , figure caption, 2000,
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, page=278
, title=A Neotropical Companion
, year=1997
, author=John Kricher
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* 2007 , Kentwood D. Wells, The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians ,
(biology) To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek .
* 1994 , M. B. Andersson, Sexual Selection ,
* 2000 , George Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution ,
* 2010 , Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini)'', Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), ''Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior ,
* 2010 , Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year ,
(UK, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) To play.
(senseid)The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 .
* 1992 , Mario I. Bléjer, Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform ,
* 1997 , Igor Artimiev, Gary J. Fine, Country Studies: Albania'', Ira W. Lieberman, Stilpon S. Nestor, Raj M. Desai, ''Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies ,
* 2003 , Iraj Hoshi, Ewa Balcerowicz, Leszek Balcerowicz, Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition ,
As nouns the difference between lek and ley
is that lek is medicine, drug while ley is .As an adjective ley is
(obsolete) fallow; unseeded.lek
English
(Albanian lek)Alternative forms
* laike (Yorkshire)Etymology 1
From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 333,
- Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek .
page 352,
- Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses.
Verb
(lekk)page 164,
- Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved.
page 79,
- The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.
page 437,
- In a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured.
unnumbered page,
- Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.
- T’lads are lekkin in t’park.
Usage notes
The Yorkshire dialect word is rarely written and is pronounced differently in the different Ridings of Yorkshire. Compare laik, layk.Etymology 2
From (etyl) lek, named after Alexander the Great, whose name is often shortened to Leka in Albanian.Noun
page 56,
- With the loss of control by the Government over foreign exchange surrender requirements and the almost complete depletion of foreign exchange reserves, in early 1992 the official rate was further devalued to leks 50 = $1.
page 178,
- Enterprise shares are sold at voucher auctions in exchange for either immaterial privatization leks' (through a bank transfer from the bidder's privatization ' lek account) or through privatization vouchers, which are submitted at the time of bidding.
page 253,
- Value Added Tax is another tax imposed on all enterprises with a yearly turnover of more than 2 million Leks . VAT was introduced in the Albanian tax system in 1995 replacing the old turnover tax.