What's the difference between lace and lade?

Lace


Definition:

  • (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.
  • (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
  • (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.
  • (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.
  • (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
  • (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage).
  • (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
  • (2) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
  • (3) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
  • (4) He says he is not bitter but his words are laced with hostility.
  • (5) Renal calcification following renal vein thrombosis (RVT) has a virtually diagnostic lace-like radiological pattern.
  • (6) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
  • (7) The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where a rocket laced with a nerve agent fell, killing more than 70 people in one of the worst mass casualty chemical attacks in the six-year war in Syria .
  • (8) In smears prepared from aspirated material, uniform tumour cells, embedded in a myxoid matrix and partly arranged in a lace-like pattern, were found.
  • (9) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
  • (10) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
  • (11) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
  • (12) Blood laced with disgrace flows from my hands, feet and side.
  • (13) • Follow the Guardian's World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more It was also a night that was laced with controversy.
  • (14) Sweden's third-largest city is laced with 500km (310 miles) of cycle lanes, more even than in Copenhagen, a short hop across the Öresunds Bridge .
  • (15) FceRII showed a lace-like pattern irrespective of the distribution of IgE.
  • (16) Laced stabilizers offer an equal or possibly greater amount of support, are less costly and easier to apply, and can be retightened frequently during activity.
  • (17) Athletic shoe manufacturers have introduced specialized lacing systems and high-top performance shoes to improve ankle stability.
  • (18) The distribution of radioactivity between newly synthesized poly(A)-containing and poly(A)-lacing polysomal RNA was altered, but no differences in mRNA half-life were observed in growth compared with effects of sham nephrectomy.
  • (19) He was reported missing after missing roll call on 30 June 2009, and a huge search operation began immediately, with foot patrols combing the landmine-laced and helicopters flying dozens of missions to look for him from the air.
  • (20) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.

Lade


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; -- generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.
  • (v. t.) To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.
  • (v. t.) To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.
  • (v. t.) To draw water.
  • (v. t.) To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.
  • (n.) The mouth of a river.
  • (n.) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, a truncated form of OspA (lacking 17 amino acids at the N-terminus) was cloned, expressed and purified in large quantities (Dunn, J.J., Lade, B.A.
  • (2) But the uncertainty of the timing of Ladee's demise had the flight controllers "on edge", he said.
  • (3) Unlike the quick three-day Apollo flights to the moon, Ladee will need a full month to reach Earth's closest neighbour.
  • (4) As it turns out, Ladee succumbed within several hours of Hine's comments.
  • (5) Petke answered by taking off one of his centre-backs and bringing on Connor Lade, not long ago out on loan in the NASL with New York Cosmos.
  • (6) The $280 million moon-orbiting mission will last six months and end with a suicide plunge into the moon for Ladee.
  • (7) "Ladee's science cup really overfloweth," Elphic said earlier this month.
  • (8) The Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight.
  • (9) Researchers believe Ladee likely vaporized when it hit because of its extreme orbiting speed of 3,600 mph, possibly smacking into a mountain or side of a crater.
  • (10) A fantastic 30 yard bending rocket by academy product Connor Lade making sure in the second half.
  • (11) "Ladee, by going to the moon, has actually allowed us to visit other worlds with similar tenuous atmospheres and dusty environments."
  • (12) Ladee, short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, was launched in September from Virginia .
  • (13) 189, 113-130; Rosenberg, A.H., Lade, B.N., Chui, D.S., Lin, S.W., Dunn, J.J., and Studier, F.W.
  • (14) New England: Shuttleworth; Alston, Goncalves, Soares, Farrell; Caldwell, Jones; Tierney, Bunbury, Nguyen; Davies (Rowe, 84) New York: Robles; Eckersley, Olave, Sekagya (Lade, 86), Oyongo; McCarty, Alexander (Bover, 91); Sam, Luyindula, Henry; Cahill.
  • (15) With increasing thyroxine lading the deiodinating activity increases statistically significantly within each diet group.
  • (16) 25, 167-178) in the pKK223-3 vector or adjacent to the strong T7 RNA polymerase promoter in the pET-3a expression vector (Rosenberg, A.H., Lade, B. N., Chui, D-S., Lin, S-W., Dunn, J. J., and Studier, F. W. (1987) Gene (Amst.)
  • (17) Nasa chose Wallops for Ladee because of the Minotaur V rocket, comprised of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors belonging to the Air Force.
  • (18) Ladee, which is the size of a small car, is expected to reach the moon on 6 October.
  • (19) Ladee did not have enough fuel to remain in lunar orbit much beyond the end of its mission.
  • (20) Until Ladee, the most recent man-made impacts were the LCross crater-observing satellite that went down in 2009 and the twin Grail spacecraft in 2012.