Luted vs Luged - What's the difference?
luted | luged |
(lute)
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:
(luge)
A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
The sport of racing on luges.
To travel by luge
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 5, author=Jennifer Schuessler, title=Inside the List, work=New York Times
, passage=After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood. }}
As verbs the difference between luted and luged
is that luted is past tense of lute while luged is past tense of luge.luted
English
Verb
(head)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
* ----luged
English
Verb
(head)luge
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lug)citation