Trilogy vs Lance - What's the difference?
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A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
* 1590 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
* 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 65.
A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
* 1591 , William Shakespeare, Henry VI , Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
(fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
(military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
(founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
(pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
(medicine) A lancet.
To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
As a noun trilogy
is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works they are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.As a verb lance is
.trilogy
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(wikipedia trilogy)Noun
(trilogies)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
lance
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Noun
(en noun)- Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance ...
- The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the .
- What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
Derived terms
* free lance * lance bucket (cavalry) * lance corporal * lance fish (zoology) * lance knight * lance sergeant * lancer * lance snake (zoology) * stink-fire lance (military)Verb
(lanc)- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.