What's the difference between laic and lair?

Laic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Laical
  • (n.) A layman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Polemics about the implementation of the laic principle in the State and in public services led to the foundation of this school, which accordingly was opposed by some political parties, by part of the healing professions and by the religious-minded.
  • (2) La Source, founded in 1859 at Lausanne, was the first laic school for nurses in the world.
  • (3) Jirí Josef Camel (1661-1706), a pharmacist and botanist, was born in Brno, educated at a grammar school and then joined the Jesuit Order as a laic brother.
  • (4) As a reaction to the appointment of sisters of the protestant nursing order of Berne at Geneva Hospital, the new school was intended to form laic nursing personnel of local origin and high quality.

Lair


Definition:

  • (n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
  • (n.) A burying place.
  • (n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
  • (2) It has been found that during the ULAIR elaboration the hippocampal neurons react by an increase of dry mass, during the LAIR elaboration-by its decrease.
  • (3) Journalism must work to earn back that trust; but in the meantime, Thiel’s revenge, executed with chilling precision like a comic-book villain in an ominous lair, should distress anyone with any interest in free speech.
  • (4) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
  • (5) At Open House Weekend each September (and on occasional tours), you can visit the parlour and see the society’s array of drug jars; the whole complex has something of the master wizard’s lair about it.
  • (6) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
  • (7) On a very small budget he creates the distinctive set for the lair of the Bond villain on Crab Key that will define his character for years to come – high-tech in its futuristic, scientific working area; Renaissance-princely in its domestic aspect.
  • (8) The shooting script for today's scenes is titled "Alice's Lair", and that word is a considered choice.
  • (9) But was it then any defence that he acted so seldom, that he had deserted the stage he had himself brought to life, or that he had come to regard movies with the hurt feelings of a Kong, hiding in his lair, unwilling to make a cheap spectacle of himself for those exploiting showmen?
  • (10) Cath Jackson reports on the last of the 1990 National health visitor week award-winning projects which successfully tracked this elusive client group to its lairs.
  • (11) Under condition of serotonine excess in the brain the changes of dry mass in hippocampal neurons during elaboration of the two reflexes are opposite to these observed during the ULAIR and LAIR elaboration with normal serotonine content.
  • (12) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
  • (13) Rather, COR is a dimly lit auditorium, with the functionality of a Bond villain’s techno-lair.
  • (14) Pete is about to retreat in to his lair: "I can't help, mate," he says.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Approaching the end-of-level boss on the Devils' Lair strike mission and things begin to look rather dark... We're into the final section of the mission now.
  • (16) To find out, Devine made the unusual decision to track the author to his lair.
  • (17) The section we’re seeing is a Strike mission named The Devils’ Lair, set in the toxic wastelands of Old Russia.
  • (18) Turkey's determination to beard Assad in his lair comes amid growing Arab criticism of Syria, reflected in the Gulf Co-operation Council 's weekend call for an end to the use of "excessive force" and the pursuit of "serious reform".
  • (19) But there the cultural connection ends: this spiny monster will house high-end accommodation for 500 students, mostly international, who will be able to peek out from their luxury lair through mean, arrow-slit windows.
  • (20) Rather like a James Bond villain addressing the world from his lair, the billionaire spoke to camera via the internet to "reveal" that he would offer $5m to sick children if President Obama produced his college records.

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