Let vs Lek - What's the difference?

let | lek |

As nouns the difference between let and lek

is that let is milk or let can be letter while lek is medicine, drug.

let

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) leten, .

Verb

(label) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without (to)).

*(Bible), (w) viii. 28

*:Pharaoh said, I will let you go.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:If your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is

*1971 , , (The Tombs of Atuan)

*:He could not be let die of thirst there alone in the dark.

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To leave.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, / But to her mother Nature all her care she lets .

(label) To allow the release of (a fluid).

(label) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.

(label) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out .

(label)

To cause (+ bare infinitive).

Soo within a whyle kynge Pellinore cam with a grete hoost / and salewed the peple and the kyng / and ther was grete ioye made on euery syde / Thenne the kyng lete serche how moche people of his party ther was slayne / And ther were founde but lytel past two honderd men slayne and viij kny?tes of the table round in their pauelions

*1818 , (John Keats), "To—":

*:Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, / Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand.

Synonyms

* (to allow) allow, permit

Usage notes

The use of "let" to introduce an imperative may sometimes be confused with its use, as its own imperative , in the sense of "to allow". For example, the sentence "Let me go to the store." could either be a second-person imperative of "let" (addressing someone who might prevent the speaker from going to the store) or a first-person singular imperative of "go" (not implying any such preventer).

Etymology 2

(etyl) . More at late, delay.

Verb

(archaic) To hinder, prevent; to obstruct (someone or something).

* Bible, 2. Thessalonians ii. 7

He who now letteth' will ' let , until he be taken out of the way.

* Tennyson

Mine ancient wound is hardly whole, / And lets me from the saddle.

(obsolete) To prevent or obstruct (to) do something, or (that) something happen.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts VIII:

And as they went on their waye, they cam unto a certayne water, and the gelded man sayde: Se here is water, what shall lett me to be baptised?

Noun

(en noun)

An obstacle or hindrance.

*, II.16:

*:Paulus Emilius'' going to the glorious expedition of ''Macedon'', advertised the people of ''Rome'' during his absence not to speake of his actions: ''For the licence of judgements is an especiall let in great affaires.

*Latimer

*:Consider whether your doings be to the let of your salvation or not.

(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

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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)

(biology) An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.

* 1975 , , Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , figure caption, 2000, page 333,

Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek .

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* 2007 , Kentwood D. Wells, The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians , 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)

(biology) To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek .

* 1994 , M. B. Andersson, Sexual Selection , 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.

* 2000 , George Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution , page 79,

The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.

* 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 , 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.

* 2010 , Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year , unnumbered page,

Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.

(UK, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) To play.

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

(senseid)The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 .

* 1992 , Mario I. Bléjer, Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform , 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.

* 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 , 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.

* 2003 , Iraj Hoshi, Ewa Balcerowicz, Leszek Balcerowicz, Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition , 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.

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