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Lune vs Lone - What's the difference?

lune | lone |

As an adjective lune

is (only with bien'' or ''mal ) having a good or bad disposition, in a good or bad mood.

As a proper noun lone is

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lune

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
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  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lune, from (etyl) luna.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles
  • *
  • Anything crescent-shaped
  • Usage notes

    The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune , but is, strictly, a lens .

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of (lyon).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A leash for a hawk.
  • * :
  • And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys' aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the ' lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge

    See also

    * loon * Monday ----

    lone

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Solitary; having no companion.
  • :
  • *(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
  • *:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
  • *
  • *:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
  • Sole; being the only one of a type.
  • Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
  • :
  • *(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
  • *:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
  • (lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
  • (lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
  • *Collection of Records (1642)
  • *:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
  • Synonyms

    * only

    Derived terms

    * lone gunman * lone wolf

    Anagrams

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