(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.
Loafer
Definition:
(n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
(2) The local British brands are very attractive because of the high quality.” While they haven’t bought any Burberry goods yet, she reckons the Loake loafers her partner bought earlier are 30% cheaper than at home.
(3) In the landscape in which I work, in south India, a large tuskless male known as CMK1 or “Naadodi Ganesan”, “the village loafer Ganesan”, spends all his time around people and displays behaviour that is rather different from his fellow elephants.
(4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(5) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
(6) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(7) Amiable, wise and pink-cheeked, with the same taste for the finer things we have witnessed in certain popes – let us remember Benedict’s red leather loafers – it’s all but impossible, once you’ve read his new novel, not to imagine how fabulous he would look in a white zucchetto , with a cape to match, and a socking great ring on his finger for journalists to kiss as they try desperately not to reveal the sin of envy in his presence (before he was a million-selling novelist, Harris was a hack just like them – and me).
(8) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
(9) Hirst's Prada loafers are on the floor in front of us, but his signature tinted glasses are nowhere to be seen.
(10) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
(11) If you’re going out raving you might go for the Gucci loafers but for the standard day to day, it’s all about Reebok Classics or Nikes.
(12) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
(13) This means her look is all trainers, flats and comfy loafers, paired with loose jeans and baggy jumpers.
(14) He was not averse to this, preferring to cloak his iron self-discipline and thirst for knowledge under a crisp linen shirt, a light tan, and pair of Gucci loafers.
(15) You are the Ref No345: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Read more In what is perhaps a sign that Roman Ambramovich has been through every other manager in the world that might be willing to work with him, he is reportedly flicking through his old contact book to give some former friends a shout, with Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink the men who could fill José’s loafers.
(16) They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups.
(17) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
(18) The Russian MP has written to the Customs Union, a grouping that includes Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan, suggesting it introduces regulations limiting heels to 5cm in height, as well as ruling out trainers and men's loafers.
(19) At this point the penny loafer drops: they're called the 1% because they're lonely.
(20) Gucci being the key show from autumn, and the loafer with furry insides the key shoe, it was always going to be the show-off shoe for editors attending these spring shows.