(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.
Luce
Definition:
(n.) A pike when full grown.
Example Sentences:
(1) Luce's choice theory was used to analyze subjects' responses.
(2) In both applications, a GRT model accounted for the identification data better than Luce's (1963) biased-choice model.
(3) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
(4) Luce's choice theory provided the psychophysical basis for investigating the ability of cerebral-palsied children to detect passive movement of the elbow joint.
(5) In 1987 her arts minister, Richard Luce, announced that "the only test of our ability to succeed is whether we can attract enough customers."
(6) The second stage involves both template matching of the transformed test stimulus with each of the stored internal representations of the characters within the set and response selection, which is assumed to conform to the unbiased choice model of Luce (1963).
(7) A difficult discrimination context produced greater complexity effects than an easy discrimination context, consistent with Folk and Luce (1987).
(8) Also, Cardiff City sacked the French midfielder Kevin Sainte-Luce after he was found guilty, but not jailed, for assaulting two women.
(9) Another official noted that the FCO minister Richard Luce suggested "we should try to prevent the press from getting wind of such training".
(10) Luce ends with a cautious endorsement of Barack Obama : [T]his is no time to gamble.
(11) The experiment of category judgments of horizontal line lengths was performed in three conditions of stimulus presentation sequence, in order to examine whether the sequential dependencies of this type might be explained with the attention band theory which Green & Luce (1974) proposed.
(12) To follow the success of Call the Midwife on Sunday evening, Harris has recently optioned Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries.
(13) Using special enzyme purifications, Sumper and Luce presented evidence that self-replicating RNA not present ab initio can grow out of 'template-free' incorporation mixtures.
(14) Dr Luce reviews recent changes in the organization and delivery of critical care and argues that the utilization and quality of critical care units can be improved through a combination of strategies.
(15) Both the Luce choice model and the informed guessing model (a new model having a simple and elegant process interpretation) provided excellent fits to the data.
(16) Carrington, who resigned after the invasion with the two other FCO ministers, Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce, wrote to John Nott, the defence secretary, three times early in 1982 trying to persuade him to reverse the decision to withdraw the survey ship HMS Endurance from the south Atlantic.
(17) Acknowledging that the nature of the intensive care environment makes applying ethical principles difficult, Luce urges physicians to carry out their obligations to serve the interests of their patients.
(18) Three extended versions of the Bradley-Terry-Luce model are discussed and used to assess scale values for the criteria as well as for order effects.
(19) Luce applies five principles of medical ethics -- beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, disclosure, and social justice -- to issues that often arise in critical care medicine.
(20) Her co-author, Dr Stephanie Luce, called the reversal “a promising sign” for New York’s workers, and added “the data show once again that union membership greatly improves workers’ wages.” Another piece of evidence suggesting that the outlook for workers is changing overall: an economic measure called labor’s share of income is spiking upwards.