What's the difference between laze and loaf?

Laze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
  • (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
  • (2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
  • (3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
  • (4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
  • (5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
  • (6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
  • (7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
  • (8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
  • (9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
  • (10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
  • (11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
  • (13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
  • (14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.

Loaf


Definition:

  • (n.) Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
  • (v. i.) To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about.
  • (v. t.) To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meat loaf systems were also employed to determine the effects of protein additives to meat under actual meat loaf conditions.
  • (2) 8.04pm BST First challenge for the remaining seven is the tea loaf.
  • (3) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (4) However when given the choice, they preferred to reduce the weight of a loaf rather than increasing the price.
  • (5) "So 44% of workers in South Africa are working for a loaf of bread a day," he said.
  • (6) Gellatly believes that anyone can make their own bread at home and, for a sourdough loaf, the process begins with a tangy starter (sometimes also known as a mother or leaven).
  • (7) Vavi cited a 2010 report showing that 44% of workers in South Africa live on less than 10 rand a day, which only just pays for a loaf of brown bread.
  • (8) Premier was hit by soaring wheat prices following a Russian export ban and has warned the wheat shortage could raise the price of bread by at least 5p a loaf.
  • (9) Parkinson says: “Walking up the Sugar Loaf with him was amazing.
  • (10) A gurgling loaf with a sheepdog's haircut and a repertoire of Latin bum jokes.
  • (11) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (12) The third major unique property of wheat flour doughs is their ability to set in the oven during baking, and thereby to produce a rigid loaf of bread.
  • (13) So, from one basic bread dough, you can make the family loaf and have a bit of fun in the kitchen too.
  • (14) Previous research has suggested that people tend to engage in social loafing when working collectively.
  • (15) Here it’s called pljeskavica and a bun is not a typical bun, but a tiny round loaf of bread called lepinja .
  • (16) He described how, during the trip back home in the taxi with his wife, he kept on crying.” Fred Ballinger, the composer he plays, loafs around a high-tone Swiss spa hotel with his old pal Mick, a veteran Hollywood film director played by Harvey Keitel , and casts a wearied eye over human frailties – both his own and those of people around him.
  • (17) Ceilings are higher, for better air; passageways are wider, for more loafing room and socialising.
  • (18) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
  • (19) When he was young, his father would leave a loaf for him in the oven.
  • (20) Researchers have calculated that white medium-sliced bread has a carbon footprint of 1,244g of CO 2 equivalent per loaf.