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lance
English
Etymology
From Middle English launce, from Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: läns, IPA(key): /l??ns/
- (US) enPR: l?ns, IPA(key): /læns/
- Rhymes: -??ns, -æns
Noun
lance (plural lances)
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
- Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drunk, Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance...
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65.
- The head of the lance was commonly of the leaf form, and sometimes approached that of the lozenge; it was very seldom barbed, although this variety, together with the others, appears upon the Bayeux Tapestry.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene III, line 15.
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
- What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, And run a-tilt at Death within a chair?
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act III, Scene II, line 49.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
- (founding) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- (medicine) A lancet.
Derived terms
Related terms
- lancet
Translations
Verb
lance (third-person singular simple present lances, present participle lancing, simple past and past participle lanced)
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.
- To open with a lancet; to pierce
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:lance.
Translations
See also
- javelin
- pike
- spear
Anagrams
- Calne, Lenca, ancle, clane, clean
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??s/
- Homophones: lancent, lances
Etymology 1
From Old French lance, from Latin lancea.
Noun
lance f (plural lances)
- a spear, lance
- (military) a soldier armed with a lance; a lancer
- a hose
Derived terms
- fer de lance
- lancette
- lancier
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lance
- first/third-person singular present indicative of lancer
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of lancer
- second-person singular imperative of lancer
Derived terms
- lance-roquette
- relance (form of verb relancer)
Related terms
Further reading
- “lance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin lancea.
Noun
lance f (plural lancis)
- lance, spear
Related terms
- slançâ
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lan.t??e/
Noun
lance f pl
- plural of lancia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?lan.ke/, [???ä?k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?lan.t??e/, [?l?n??t???]
Noun
lance
- ablative singular of lanx
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
lance
- Alternative form of launce
Etymology 2
Verb
lance
- Alternative form of launcen
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French lance.
Noun
lance f (plural lances)
- lance (weapon)
- lancer; lance
Descendants
- French: lance
Old French
Etymology
From Latin lancea.
Noun
lance f (oblique plural lances, nominative singular lance, nominative plural lances)
- lance (weapon)
Descendants
- Middle French: lance
- French: lance
- ? Middle English: launce
- English: lance
- ? Middle High German: lanze
- German: Lanze
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Back-formation from lançar.
Noun
lance m (plural lances)
- throw (act of throwing something)
- Synonyms: arremesso, jogada, lançamento
- bid (offer at an auction)
- Synonym: lanço
- (sports) a series of actions carried out during a game
- Synonym: jogada
- (informal) thing (only used for non-physical things)
- flight (series of stairs between landings)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lance
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lançar
- É importante que eu lance isso.
- It’s important that I throw this.
- É importante que eu lance isso.
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of lançar
- É importante que ele lance isso.
- It’s important that he throws this.
- É importante que ele lance isso.
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lançar
- Você aí, lance isso sozinho.
- You there, throw this by yourself.
- Você aí, lance isso sozinho.
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lançar
- Você aí, não lance isso sozinho.
- You there, don’t throw this by yourself.
- Você aí, não lance isso sozinho.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lancia (18th century).
Noun
lance f (plural l?nci)
- spear, lance
- Synonym: suli??
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?lan?e/, [?lãn?.?e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /?lanse/, [?lãn.se]
Etymology 1
From the verb lanzar.
Noun
lance m (plural lances)
- launch (act of launching)
- Synonym: lanzamiento
- throw
- cast (fishing)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lance
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lanzar.
Further reading
- “lance” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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carve
English
Etymology
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??v/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??v/
- Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -??(?)v
Verb
carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)
- (archaic) To cut.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- My good blade carves the casques of men.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
carve (plural carves)
- (obsolete) A carucate.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
- 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31
- Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- The act of carving
Anagrams
- Caver, caver, crave, varec
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