different between lase vs lee

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)

1. (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."

2. (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

1. 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

1. 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

1. drop (of a liquid)

References

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lase]

Verb

lase

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of l?sa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of l?sa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: lea, Lea, Lee, leigh, Leigh, li, Li, Lie

Etymology 1

From Middle English lee, from Old English hl?o, hl?ow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *?ley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin cal?re (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit ???? (?arad, “autumn”)).

Noun

lee (plural lees)

1. (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
2. (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
3. A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.

   the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship

   • We lurked under lee.

   • 1873, John Tyndall, "Niagara", in Fragments of Science (1907), page 182

     Desiring me to take shelter in his lee.

   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one.

Antonyms

• (geology) stoss
• (nautical) weather, windward

Derived terms

• alee
• leeward
• leeway

Translations

Adjective

lee (not comparable)

1. (sailing, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   lee side, lee shore, lee helm

Etymology 2

Noun

lee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Lees; dregs.

Further reading

• Lee in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• lee at OneLook Dictionary Search
• lee in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• ELE, eel

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?/

Noun

lée f 

1. water

References

• Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 99
• Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar?^[3], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis)., page 5

Belizean Creole

Adjective

lee

1. little

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 212.

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish lä (“lee”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?le?/, [?le??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: lee

Noun

lee

1. (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
2. (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (side of ship): suojanpuoli

Derived terms

• leenpuoleinen

Anagrams

• ele

Luxembourgish

Verb

lee

1. second-person singular imperative of leeën

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee

1. To lie; to speak falsely.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Northern Sotho

Noun

lee

1. egg

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ledd.

Verb

lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)

1. to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move

References

• “lee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lee” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lee (present tense lear, past tense lea, past participle lea, passive infinitive least, present participle leande, imperative le)

1. Alternative form of lea

Scots

Etymology

From Old English l?ogan

Verb

lee (third-person singular present lees, present participle leein, past leet, past participle leet)

1. To lie (tell lies).

Spanish

Verb

lee

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of leer.

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.?/

Noun

lee 5 (plural mae)

1. egg

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English lien, from Old English li??an, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan.

Verb

lee (second-person singular simple present leeesth)

1. to lie, lay

Etymology 2

Verb

lee

1. Alternative form of laave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN