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Shoelace vs Lacing - What's the difference?

shoelace | lacing |

As nouns the difference between shoelace and lacing

is that shoelace is a lace used for fastening a shoe while lacing is that with which something is laced.

As a verb lacing is

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shoelace

English

(wikipedia shoelace)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A lace used for fastening a shoe.

    • Derived terms

    * shoelaced

    Synonyms

    * shoestring (US)

    Meronyms

    * aiglet

    See also

    * bootlace * lacing

    lacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That with which something is laced.
    • A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
  • The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
  • A beating as punishment; a hiding.
  • * 1964 , Tom Pyle, ?Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
    • The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing. Ed was angry that the kid had run off, and he said when he got his hands on him he was going to give him a good lacing

    See also

    * shoelace