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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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saw
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /s??/
- Homophones: (in some non-rhotic accents): soar, sore
- Rhymes: -??
- (US) enPR: sô, IPA(key): /s?/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: sä, IPA(key): /s??/
- (idiosyncratic, past tense of 'see') IPA(key): /s??l/
Etymology 1
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sag? (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin sec? (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”).
The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
- A musical saw.
- A sawtooth wave.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: sa
Translations
Verb
saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
- They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- The timber saws smoothly.
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
- to saw shingles; to saw out a panel
Derived terms
- saw gourds
- saw wood
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??-, from *sek?- (“to follow”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
- And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
- And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded […].
- And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].
- A saying or proverb.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:saying
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II Scene VII, lines 152-5.
- And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.
- 1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8.
- At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'
- 2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.
- There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.
- (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
- (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
- c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
- All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
- c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous
- (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Derived terms
- soothsaw
- withsaw
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
saw
- simple past tense of see
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
Interjection
saw
- (slang) What's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
Anagrams
- ASW, AWS, Was, aws, was
Atong (India)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?aw/
Adjective
saw (Bengali script ???)
- rotten
Khasi
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *sa?w, an innovation of the Khasian branch. Cognate with Pnar soo.
Numeral
saw
- four
Middle English
Noun
saw
- saw
- 1387', Ranulf Higden, John of Trevisa (translator), Polychronicon
- Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
- The more common opinion is that Remus was slain for he lept over the new walls of Rome.
- Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
- 1387', Ranulf Higden, John of Trevisa (translator), Polychronicon
Northern Kurdish
Noun
saw ?
- terror
- horror
Scots
Pronunciation
- (Doric and most Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /sa/
- (Central and some Southern Scots dialects) IPA(key): /s?/
Etymology 1
Verb
saw
- (South Scots) simple past tense of sei
- (Northern and Central) simple past tense of see
Etymology 2
Noun
saw (plural saws)
- A salve.
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?a???/
- Tone numbers: saw1
- Hyphenation: saw
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *s??? (“writing; book”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC ???, “writing; book”). Cognate with Lao ?? (s??), Thai ??? (s???).
Alternative forms
- sw
Noun
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ????, old orthography s??)
- written language; writing; script
- (Chinese) character
- word
- book
- teaching material
- receipt; voucher
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *sa?? (“clear; clean”). Cognate with Thai ?? (s?i), Northern Thai ??, Isan ??, Lao ?? (sai), Lü ?? (?ay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ??? (s?ue), Tai Nüa ??? (sáue), Ahom ???????? (saw) or ???????????? (sawu).
Adjective
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography s??)
- clean
- (of transparent objects, water, etc.) clear
- (of liquids other than water) watery; thin
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from ??”)
Verb
saw (Sawndip forms ???? or ?, old orthography s??)
- to lose
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