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Lute vs Lit - What's the difference?

lute | lit |

As nouns the difference between lute and lit

is that lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox while lit is little.

As verbs the difference between lute and lit

is that lute is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute while lit is past tense of light.

As an adjective lit is

little.

lute

English

(wikipedia lute)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lut (modern (luth)), from (etyl) (probably representing an (etyl) or North African pronunciation).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
  • See also

    * barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorbo

    Verb

    (lut)
  • To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
  • * Tennyson
  • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
    (Piers Plowman)
    (Keats)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  • (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.
  • Verb

    (lut)
  • To fix or fasten something with lute.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
  • To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

    Anagrams

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    lit

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Little.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Little.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (light)
  • (US, dialectal) To run, or light
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • illuminated
  • * He walked down the lit corridor.
  • (slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned
  • (slang) Sexually aroused (usually a female), especially visibly sexually aroused (e.g., labial swelling is present)
  • Derived terms
    * half lit

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lit, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Colour; blee; dye; stain.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) litten, liten, from (etyl) . See above.

    Verb

    (litt)
  • To colour; dye.
  • Etymology 5

    Short for literature.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Abbreviated form of literature.
  • Derived terms
    * chick lit * lit crit * litfan

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