lace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
Inflected forms:
form: laces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: laced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: laced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
gloss: A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: your laces are untied, do them up!
gloss: A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The king had ſnared been in loues ſtrong lace, [...]
gloss: Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: He is forced every Morning to drink his Dish of Coffee by itself, without the Addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than Lace to it.
gloss: To fasten (something) with laces.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
gloss: To interweave items.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to lace one's fingers together
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
Flanner's old-fashioned, staunch feminism runs throughout and laces together these letters.
gloss: To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For these and other reasons, you may want to lace a new rim onto an existing hub, or vice versa. For some reason, probably because of the maze and complex angles of spokes, lacing and building a wheel has for years been a virtual mystery to even skilled home bike mechanics.
gloss: To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll Lace your Coat for ye.
gloss: To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: cloth laced with silver
Under these windows, white and azure-laced
gloss: To intersperse or diversify with something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The throne speech opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism.
gloss: To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort.
Translations:
lang: German
word: einspeichen