What's the difference between lese and lose?

Lese


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
  • (2) This enzyme was purified 10.5-fold over the induced lese, EC 3.2.1.26) by substrate-specificity studies.
  • (3) Thailand’s lese-majesty legislation is the one of the world’s harshest, carrying a 15-year jail sentence for an offence.
  • (4) Despite comparable levels of adult fatness, measured by triceps skinfold thickness, heights of Efe males and females were lower than those of the Lese.
  • (5) For some the complaining is fun – never mind the lese-majesty of Fearne Cotton and the sick bag, or the lack of gravitas charges levelled at Tess Daly, what about John Sergeant's flat cap?
  • (6) They were each charged with one count of lese majeste linked to the play, which marked the 40th anniversary of a pro-democracy student protest at the university that was crushed by the military regime in October 1973.
  • (7) Currently swelling their number are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, who signed a petition calling for Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC political editor, to be sacked for lese-majesty against the Dear Leader.
  • (8) Researchers compared 1980-87 data on rainfall, garden size, nutritional status, ovarian function, and births among the Lese subsistence farmers and the nomadic Efe pygmies who lived in the Ituri Forest in northeast Zaire to analyze the ecology of human birth seasonality.
  • (9) Weights and heights, expressed as percentages of the 50th percentile for age and sex, were significantly lower (P less than .001) in Efe males and females than among Lese males and females, but weights for height did not differ significantly.
  • (10) In order to establish staging of cataract development in Emory mice, in vivo observation of crystallaine leses of 366 eyes in 183 Emory mice were performed with the slit-lamp microscope from the time of opening of the lid fissure to the age of 12 months.
  • (11) While the Efe have an overall goiter prevalence of 9.4%, the Lese have a goiter prevalence of 42.9%.
  • (12) Ovarian function is examined in 35 Lese women inhabiting the Ituri Forest of northeastern Zaire over a period of 4 months through measurements of progesterone in saliva samples collected twice weekly.
  • (13) The junta has said that the military now has the jurisdiction to intervene in all legal cases – including lese-majesty and national security cases – and has warned civilians and the media against posting anything on social media that could be deemed a threat to national security.
  • (14) Over 150 civilians are facing military tribunal, 62 are being charged with lese-majesty offences, 38 charged with sedition and 85 prosecuted for violating the junta’s ban on political gathering of five or more persons.
  • (15) Furthermore, Efe women living in Lese villages and subsisting on a Lese diet have a prevalence of goiter similar to that of forest-living Efe women.
  • (16) It is suggested that low ovulatory frequency and luteal insufficiency contribute to the low fecundity of the Lese population and that nutritional status is likely to be one of the ecological factors modulating this effect.
  • (17) Although the army has said detentions will last no longer than a week, observers fear they are merely a means to stifle dissent against the takeover, because many of those summoned include members of the former cabinet, including the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her supporters, and those who appear to have been outwardly critical of Thailand's lese-majesty law, which protects the monarchy.
  • (18) This is exactly this sort of public irreverence, bordering on lese-majesty, that grim Xi fears most.
  • (19) Critics say the lese majeste law has been used as a tool to suppress political dissent, noting that many of those charged have been linked to the opposition Red Shirt movement.
  • (20) Lese women experienced considerably fewer conceptions during the periods with poor food availability than during other months (p=.002).

Lose


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
  • (v. t.) To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
  • (v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
  • (v. t.) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
  • (v. t.) To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
  • (v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
  • (v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
  • (v. t.) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
  • (v. t.) To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
  • (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
  • (3) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (4) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (5) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
  • (6) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (7) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (8) c-WRT-7 cells were found to differentiate into macrophage-like cells and to lose their growth capacity both in vitro and in vivo after incubation with LPS.
  • (9) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
  • (10) Winning and losing were predicted to be more significant in determining cardiovascular responses for Type A's than for Type B's.
  • (11) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
  • (12) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
  • (13) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
  • (14) In addition, we have shown that long-lived, presumably non-senescent, strains do not arise by suppressor mutation, but lose senescence plasmid DNA by another mechanism.
  • (15) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
  • (16) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
  • (17) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (18) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
  • (19) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
  • (20) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.