Lute vs Lit - What's the difference?
lute | lit |
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
* Tennyson
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.
To fix or fasten something with lute.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
(obsolete) Little.
(obsolete) Little.
(light)
(US, dialectal) To run, or light
* {{quote-news, 1988, April 8, Grant Pick, Johnny Washington's Life, Chicago Reader
, passage=With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know! }}
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)
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
To colour; dye.
Abbreviated form of literature.
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)See also
* barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorboVerb
(lut)- Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
- (Piers Plowman)
- (Keats)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lut)- 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
* ----lit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lit, lut, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lihte, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
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