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Linens vs Lien - What's the difference?

linens | lien |

As nouns the difference between linens and lien

is that linens is plural of lang=en while lien is a tendon.

As a verb lien is

alternative form of lang=en.

linens

English

Noun

(head)
  • Household textiles made of linen-like cloth (such as cotton fabric), including tablecloths and bed sheets. The singular, linen , of this sense is rare.
  • Undergarments, underwear.

    • lien

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A tendon.
  • (legal) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 7:
    • Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "lien")

    Derived terms

    * lienholder

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Bible, archaic)
    • If no man have lien with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse...

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