(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.
Lave
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.
(v. i.) To bathe; to wash one's self.
(v. t.) To lade, dip, or pour out.
(n.) The remainder; others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The additional fact that magnetite in lave flows also provides a persistent handed site for surface catalysis offers a further argument for the experimental investigation of this specific biopoetic environment.
(2) IFN alpha was localized to fetal chorionic villous syncytiotrophoblast throughout normal pregnancy, as well as to extravillous trophoblast in the placental bed and chorion lave.
(3) The number of mRNAov per tubular gland cell was also determined for egg-laving hen.
(4) The families were not significantly different in their functioning when compared to family norms established by Olson, Portner, and Lavee (1985).
(5) It is shown that the models used by Lave and Lave and by Steinwald and Neuhauser to generate empirical evidence can give different policy recommendations depending on the relative size of the proprietary and nonprofit bed stocks.
(6) Singer’s Los Angeles-based firm Lavely & Singer represents more than a dozen of the women affected, the director Bryan Singer and the actors John Travolta and Charlie Sheen.
(7) A framework for developing such rules based upon minimizing costs of false-positives and false-negatives was presented in a seminal paper by Lave and Omenn (1986, Nature (London), 324, 29-34).
(8) Lavely & Singer has written to various website operators and internet service providers (ISPs) demanding that the images be taken down under the DMCA.
(9) This is what the message said, printed in capitals (I’ve left the original spelling): “This is a lave [leave] area.