What's the difference between lave and lavender?

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.

Lavender


Definition:

  • (n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
  • (n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of volatile oils of lavender, monarda, and basil on the course of experimental atherosclerosis was studied in rabbit experiments.
  • (2) People often come to Provence just to see the lavender."
  • (3) The sedative properties of the essential oil of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Miller) and of its main constituents--linalool and linalyl acetate--were investigated in mice followed up in a series of experimental procedures.
  • (4) Perhaps they'll have to CGI old footage of Lavender into the scenes with Jones and Nighy.
  • (5) It looked like a banana split to me,” Lavender told the Birmingham Mail .
  • (6) I’m just working through my hobbies.” In the meantime, he’s just finished filming a one-off drama about the making of Dad’s Army , in which he plays Ian (Private Pike) Lavender.
  • (7) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
  • (8) I sat quietly wearing it and nobody really noticed.” Lavender, one of the few surviving cast members from the original series, has a small role as Brigadier Pritchard in the film , which stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson.
  • (9) Examinations of the basic material for removable dentures, coated with rose, lavender, sage wax evidence that such coating essentially reduces residual methylmetacrylate migration and its side effect on the denture bed tissues, and improves the hygienic characteristics of dentures.
  • (10) On set to shoot a cameo in the movie, Lavender, 68, was struck by lemon additions on the scarf worn by Blake Harrison, who plays Pike.
  • (11) Lavender was 22 in 1968, when he got the part of Pike, joining a cast of already venerable and respected thesps – including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and John Laurie – in his first substantial professional role.
  • (12) Some of them may now house galleries and ice-cream parlours that sell strawberry and lavender sorbet, but family businesses such as Schicketanz butchers and Seidel’s bakery will keep the area grounded.
  • (13) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
  • (14) There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.
  • (15) Scientists are now looking for lavender varieties resistant to the micro-bacterium.
  • (16) A succession of winners made amusing and self-deprecating speeches – Lord Falconer (Oldie slimmer of the year) , Ian Lavender (Stupid Oldie Boy of the year) – though the warmest applause was for Bridget Riley (Stripe Artist of the year) who won everyone’s heart by her touching sincerity.
  • (17) France has 1,700 lavender producers working 16,000 hectares of lavandin, along with another 4,000 hectares of strictly controlled "pure" lavender.
  • (18) Returning to the world of Harry Potter, the character of Lavender Brown was recast from a black actor in the first films to a white actor just in time for her to become a romantic prospect for Ron Weasley.
  • (19) This mummy's boy, along with a bunch of doddery gents, may have constituted Blighty's laughable last line of defence against Nazi invasion, but there is nothing wimpish about Lavender's handshake.
  • (20) After playing Herbert Pocket, in Lean's Great Expectations (1946), and Fagin, in Oliver Twist (1948), Guinness went on to a series of glorious Ealing comedies - perhaps most memorably as the bankteller-turned-robber Henry Holland in Charles Crichton's The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and as the criminal Professor Marcus, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955).

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