What's the difference between lech and loch?

Lech


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (2) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
  • (3) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
  • (4) A Committee was appointed in 1973 by the National Board of Health and Welfare, which initiated a number of breast feeding promoting activities: the editing of a Manual for health personnel, and booklets for mothers, the systematic arranging of workshops for key personnel in each county, stimulation to more flexible and breast feeding favouring maternity routines, backing of working groups of La Leche League-type, etc.
  • (5) "Jaroslaw Kaczynski was practising politics from the 19th century, fighting with Germany and Russia and going on about Smolensk," he said, a reference to the plane crash in 2010 that killed Kaczynski's twin brother Lech, a former Polish president.
  • (6) The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning.
  • (7) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
  • (8) Zych also remembered the late president Lech Kaczynski and MPs who died with him in a plane crash last year.
  • (9) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
  • (10) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
  • (11) Ninety-six people died including the country’s president, Lech Kaczyński, who was the twin brother of leader of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński.
  • (12) A historical witch hunt for “communist agents” has even extended to hero trade union leader Lech Wałęsa .
  • (13) In the early 1990s he was initially a close collaborator with president Lech Walesa, but later, after a sharp rupture, became his fierce political opponent.
  • (14) To increase the range of the feeding and caretaking behaviors hypothesized to be relevant determinants of early crying, home observations and diary records were analyzed from samples of two subcultures of American middle-class women (La Leche League and "standard care" mothers; each n = 16) differing primarily in such practices.
  • (15) Lech Kaczynski, who has died aged 60, had been Poland's president since 2005, its fourth since the country broke free from the Soviet bloc in 1989.
  • (16) Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and leader of the Solidarity trade union in communist times, said Palikot had successfully tapped into issues neglected by other parties.
  • (17) His political home is the Law and Justice party of the Kaczynski twin brothers, Lech, the Polish president, and Jaroslaw, former prime minister.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński in 2005.
  • (19) The received wisdom says St Anton is for the young ski-and-party-hard set, Lech and Zürs are playgrounds for the European elite and Stuben is a good-value family option.
  • (20) In neighbouring Poland, the founder of the anti-communist Solidarity movement and former president Lech Walesa called Havel "a great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy".

Loch


Definition:

  • (n.) A lake; a bay or arm of the sea.
  • (n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (2) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  • (3) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
  • (4) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
  • (5) At one stage, more than 60 train passengers were stranded on the West Highland line after it was closed down near Crianlarich, north of Loch Lomond.
  • (6) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
  • (7) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
  • (8) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
  • (9) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
  • (10) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
  • (11) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
  • (12) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
  • (13) 4 Turn right on to a solid path, climb past St Margaret's loch and the ruin of St Anthony's chapel.
  • (14) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
  • (15) Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Loch Caoldair, Laggan, Western Cairngorms There are thousands of lochs in Scotland, and open access laws mean you can swim in virtually all of them.
  • (16) Though Scotland is a land of lochs, it's not known for its bathing.
  • (17) Whereas Campbell Toun Loch caters for the solitary, late-night drinker, Marugin attracts lively early-evening groups, eating, smoking and knocking back highballs.
  • (18) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
  • (19) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
  • (20) But think how fascinating the idea of a loch monster is.