What's the difference between lace and lance?

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.

Lance


Definition:

  • (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
  • (2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
  • (3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
  • (4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
  • (5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
  • (9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
  • (10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
  • (11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
  • (14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
  • (15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
  • (16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
  • (17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
  • (18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
  • (20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.