Lute vs Lude - What's the difference?
lute | lude |
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) Sound, noise, clamor
As verbs the difference between lute and lude
is that lute is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute or lute can be to fix or fasten something with lute while lude is .As a noun lute
is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox or lute can be thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.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
* ----lude
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Noun
(luden)- Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora lude .'' — ''Layamon's Brut
- Þa luden heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden.'' — ''Layamon's Brut