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)

1. (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.
2. (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

3. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
4. (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.

   • When Jenny's stays are newly laced.

2. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
3. (transitive) To interweave items.
   • 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.

4. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
5. (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
6. (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

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

Latin

Verb

lace

1. second-person singular present active imperative of laciō

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lace f

1. dative/locative singular of laka

Portuguese

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