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lase
English
Etymology
Back-formation from laser, as if removing -er. Compare mase.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?z/
- Homophones: lays, laze
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
lase (third-person singular simple present lases, present participle lasing, simple past and past participle lased)
- (transitive) To use a laser beam on, as for cutting.
- The surgeon lased the elongated soft palate, cutting off the excess tissue and stopping the blood flow in one swipe.
- The physical chemist lased the atoms as they passed between the electrodes to study their motion.
- 2010 (publication date), Daniel Lametti, "The Proton Gets Small(er)", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 67:
- When a laser zaps an electron orbiting a proton, the electron undergoes what is called the Lamb shift, absorbing energy and jumping to a higher energy level. […] But instead of lasing electrons, Knowles examined protons with particles called muons, which he calls "the electron's fat cousin."
- (intransitive) To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation.
- Once enough of the gas particles are in a higher energy state, they will begin to lase and give off a coherent beam.
Anagrams
- ASLE, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Sale, Salé, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, leas, sale, seal, sela
Estonian
Alternative forms
- las
Verb
lase
- second-person singular imperative of laskma
Usage notes
lase governs the adessive (verb in the infinitive), las governs the nominative (verb in corresponding person, in the present).
Inari Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *lës?.
Noun
lase
- addition, increase
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Latgalian
Etymology
Cognates include Latvian l?se and Lithuanian lašas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?las?æ/
Noun
lase f
- drop (of a liquid)
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lase]
Verb
lase
- third-person singular present subjunctive of l?sa
- third-person plural present subjunctive of l?sa
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lease
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /li?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).
Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased) (chiefly dialectal)
- (transitive) To gather.
- (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (transitive) To glean.
- (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.
Etymology 2
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?asian (“to lie, tell lies”), from l?as (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
Derived terms
- leasing
Etymology 3
From Middle English lese, from Old English l?s (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *l?sw? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y-, *l?yd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?sa (“meadow”). See also leasow.
Alternative forms
- leaze
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- An open pasture or common.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
- Since as a child I used to lie
- Upon the leaze and watch the sky,
- Never, I own, expected I
- That life would all be fair.
- 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:
Etymology 4
From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?esan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan? (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).
Alternative forms
- leese (Scotland)
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
Etymology 5
From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin lax? (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German l?zan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen). Cognate with Old English l?tan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”). More at let.
Verb
lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)
- (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
- (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
- (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.
Derived terms
- re-lease
Translations
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
- The period of such a contract.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
- And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:
- A leasehold.
Derived terms
- off-lease
Translations
Descendants
- ? Dutch: leasen
- ? English: leasing
- ? Spanish: leasing
- ? Finnish: leasing
- ? Polish: leasing
- ? Swedish: leasing
Related terms
- lessor, lessee
Etymology 6
From leash.
Noun
lease (plural leases)
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
Anagrams
- Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li?s/, /lis/
- Hyphenation: lease
- Homophone: lies
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English lease.
Noun
lease f (plural leases, diminutive leaseje n)
- lease
- Synonym: pacht
Derived terms
- leaseauto
- leasewagen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lease
- first-person singular present indicative of leasen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
- imperative of leasen
Middle English
Adjective
lease
- Alternative form of les
Noun
lease
- Alternative form of les
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