lace

English Online Dictionary. What means lace‎? What does lace mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /leɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.

Noun

lace (countable and uncountable, plural laces)

2. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ^Wp
   • 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.
3. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ^Wp

4. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
5. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.

Synonyms

• (cord):
  • (for a shoe): shoelace
  • (for a garment): tie

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).

Verb

lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)

1. (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
2. (transitive) To interweave items.
3. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
4. (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
5. (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
7. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Cael, acle, Cela, Alec, alec, alce, ALEC, cale, Clea, Acle

Esperanto

Adverb

lace

1. wearily

Related terms

• laca

French

Verb

lace

1. inflection of lacer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• cale, calé
• cela

Galician

Verb

lace

1. inflection of lazar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

lace

1. second-person singular present active imperative of laciō

Old English

Verb

lāce

1. first-person singular present indicative of lācan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.t͡sɛ/
• Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
• Syllabification: la‧ce

Noun

lace f

1. dative/locative singular of laka

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English lace (wig).

Pronunciation

Noun

lace f (plural laces)

1. (Brazil) lace wig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -asi
• Hyphenation: la‧ce

Verb

lace

1. inflection of laçar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Adjective

lace m or f or n (masculine plural laci, feminine and neuter plural lace)

1. Obsolete form of laș.

Declension

References

• lace in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Verb

lace

1. inflection of lazar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative