different between launder vs lavender

English

Etymology

Contracted from Middle English lavender, from Old French lavandiere, from Late Latin lavandena, from Latin lav? (“I wash”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /?l??nd?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?l?nd?/
• Rhymes: -??nd?(?), -??nd?(?)

Noun

launder (plural launders)

1. (obsolete) A washerwoman or washerman.
2. (mining) A trough used by miners to receive powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus for comminuting (sorting) the ore.
3. A trough or channel carrying water to the wheel of a watermill.

   Synonym: inlayer

4. A gutter (for rainwater).

Synonyms

• (washerwoman): launderer, laundress, washerwoman

Translations

Verb

launder (third-person singular simple present launders, present participle laundering, simple past and past participle laundered)

1. To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
2. (obsolete) To lave; to wet.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
4. (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.

Derived terms

• money laundering

Translations

Related terms

• launderer
• launderette
• laundress
• laundry
• lave

References

• launder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• launder at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Arundel, lurdane, rundale

Middle English

Noun

launder

1. Alternative form of lavender

English

Etymology

From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French: lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavare (“wash”) due to use of lavender in washing clothes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?læv.?n.d?/

Noun

lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)

1. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

3. (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

Hyponyms

• (plant): common lavender

Derived terms

• lavender water
• sea lavender
• spike lavender

Related terms

• launder

Translations

See also

• lavender on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lavandula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lavandula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)

1. Having a pale purple colour.
2. (politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
3. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)

1. (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.

Anagrams

• Vreeland

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French lavandiere, from Medieval Latin lavand?rius.

Alternative forms

• lavendere, lavendre, lavendeer, lawender, lawnder, lawndere, launder

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lav?n?de?r/, /?lav?nd?r/, /lau?n?de?r/, /?lau?nd?r/

Noun

lavender (plural lavenderes)

1. A washer; one (especially a woman) who washes clothes.
2. (euphemistic) A woman employed in prostitution or having loose morals.

Related terms

• lavendrye

Descendants

• English: launder
• Scots: launer

References

• “lavender(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-24.

Etymology 2

From Old French lavendre.

Noun

lavender

1. Alternative form of lavendre