What's the difference between lace and race?

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.

Race


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To raze.
  • (n.) A root.
  • (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
  • (n.) Company; herd; breed.
  • (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
  • (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
  • (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
  • (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
  • (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
  • (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
  • (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
  • (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
  • (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
  • (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
  • (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
  • (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
  • (v. t.) To run a race with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (5) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (6) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (7) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
  • (8) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (9) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
  • (10) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (11) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (12) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (13) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
  • (14) These changes were completely reversible within 18 hr after the race.
  • (15) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (16) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (17) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
  • (18) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (19) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
  • (20) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.