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)
- (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.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (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
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (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)
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
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- When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
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- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To interweave items.
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- 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.
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ALEC, Acle, Alec, Cela, acle, alec, cale
Esperanto
Adverb
lace
- wearily
Related terms
- laca
French
Verb
lace
- inflection of lacer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- cale, calé
- cela
Latin
Verb
lace
- second-person singular present active imperative of laciō
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈla.t͡sɛ/
- Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
- Syllabification: la‧ce
Noun
lace f
- dative/locative singular of laka
Portuguese
Verb
lace
- inflection of laçar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Adjective
lace m or f or n (masculine plural laci, feminine and neuter plural lace)
- 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
- inflection of lazar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative