Lune vs Lone - What's the difference?
lune | lone |
(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
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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
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Anything crescent-shaped
(label) A leash for a hawk.
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Solitary; having no companion.
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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
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*: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.
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*(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.
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
.lune
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lune, from (etyl) luna.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune , but is, strictly, a lens .Etymology 3
Alteration of (lyon).Noun
(en noun)- 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