Lute vs Plute - What's the difference?
lute | plute |
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:
(colloquial, Australia, US) A plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.
* 1909 , Western Federation of Miners, Miner?s Magazine ,
* 1915 , , Michael O?Halloran , 2006, Echo Library,
* 1917 , New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1917 October 4, People'', quoted in 1989, John Gunn, ''Along Parallel Lines: A History of the Railways of New South Wales ,
* 1938 , , 2010,
* 1993 , Frank Cain, The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia ,
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 104:
As nouns the difference between lute and plute
is that 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 while plute is (colloquial|australia|us) a plutocrat, especially a rich industrialist.As a verb lute
is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute or lute can be to fix or fasten something with lute.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
* ----plute
English
Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)page 95,
- As a result, the plutes are in a panic.
page 224,
- “Exactly what the plutes' are doing,” said Mickey. “Gee, Junior, if your Pa does all the things he said he was going to, you'll be a ' plute yourself!”
- “Never heard him say anything in my life he didn?t do,” said Junior, “and didn?t you notice that he put you in too? You?ll be just as much of a plute as I will.”
page 153,
- Then one of the papers — the Wellington Truth — had a paragraph in it that on account of the strike being settled I was deprived of that trip to represent the “plutes ” in Australia — so easily can one?s action be misconstrued and misunderstood.
page 287,
- Against the workers were arrayed the whole forces of Australian Capitalism — plutes (sic ), press, politicians, pulpits and all the powers and forces of the State and Federal Government, with the Courts and all the forces of repression behind the State Capitalist Government.
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- And they can?t export it, because, Australia bein? a workin? man?s paradise, which is better than it bein? a paradise for Plutes , their cost of production is too high for competition with countries where labour is sweated.
page 180,
- but then the prostitutes of the plute press are always cunning flunkeys of the Most High.
- Straight talk. No double-talking you like the plutes do, ’cause with them what you always have to be listening for is the opposite of what they say.