Semi vs Lori - What's the difference?
semi | lori |
(UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
* 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia,
* 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain ,
A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
* 2011 , Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run , Allen & Unwin, Australia,
A semifinal.
(slang) A partial erection.
* 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
A female given name, popular in the US in the 1960s.
* 1957 , Paul Gallico, Thomasina: The Cat who Thought She was God (Doubleday 1957), page 243:
* 2006 , Christine W. Murphy, Through Iowa Glass (Hard Shell Word Factory 2006, ISBN 0759900949), page 23:
As nouns the difference between semi and lori
is that semi is (uk|australia|canada) a semi-detached house while lori is loris.semi
English
(wikipedia semi)Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
page 52,
- The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
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- All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
- The twink got a semi just from that look.
Anagrams
* ----lori
English
Etymology 1
In some cases, a 20th century spelling variant of Laurie, from Laura. In other cases, a diminutive form of names such as Loretta and Lorraine.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- There was Lori' - '''Lori''' - '''Lori''' no longer daft - '''Lori''' who could fight like the very devil of a Scotswoman at the side of her man - '''Lori''' would pull Mary Ruadh back from the brink of the grave, and perhaps himself too. His spirits began to lift. His whole being sang with the name of ' Lori .
- While she continued to cling to his arm, Lorraine pouted again. " Running away changed a lot of things, but it didn't change your name. Nobody's called me Lori for ages, but while you're here, we'll just have to put up with each other."