different between lone vs lyne

English

Etymology

Shortened from alone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?n/

• Rhymes: -??n

• Homophone: loan

Adjective

lone (not comparable)

1. Solitary; having no companion.
   • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules

     When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
2. Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
3. Sole; being the only one of a type.
4. Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
5. (archaic) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
   • c. 1715, Alexander Pope, Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount

     Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.

6. (archaic) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
   • Collection of Records (1642)

     Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

Synonyms

• only

Derived terms

Related terms

• alone

Translations

Anagrams

• Elon, Leno, Leon, León, NOEL, Noel, Nole, Noël, elon, enol, leno, neol., noel, nole, noël, one L

Afrikaans

Noun

lone

1. plural of loon

Dutch

Verb

lone

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lonen

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lone]

Noun

lone n

1. locative singular of lono

Yola

Noun

lone

1. Alternative form of lhoan

English

Noun

lyne (countable and uncountable, plural lynes)

1. Obsolete form of line.
2. Obsolete form of linen.

   • Nor any weaver, which his work doth boast
     In diaper, in damask, or in lyne,
     Might in their diverse cunning ever dare
     With this so curious net-work to compare.

Anagrams

• -enyl, enyl, leyn

Danish

Etymology

See lyn (“lightning”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly?n?/, [?ly?n?]

Verb

lyne (imperative lyn, infinitive at lyne, present tense lyner, past tense lynede, perfect tense er/har lynet)

1. zip (to close with a zip fastener)
2. lighten, lightning (to produce lightning)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyn, line, lin, lynye, lyny

Etymology 1

From Old English l?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/, /lin/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

lyne (uncountable)

1. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers.
2. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown and spun for use in textiles.
3. Cloth woven from flax; linen.

Synonyms

• flex

Descendants

• English: line, linseed (in compound with seed)
• Yola: leen

References

• “l??n, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Etymology 2

Adjective

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynnen

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?n(?)/

Noun

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ly?.n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From lyn n (“lightning”).

Alternative forms

• ljona, lyna

Verb

lyne (present tense lyner, past tense lynte, past participle lynt, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyn)

1. (impersonal, intransitive) to produce lightning

2. (intransitive) to emit one or more flashes, to gleam
3. (intransitive, of eyes, idiomatic) to light up (in rage)
4. (intransitive) to flash; to move very fast

Etymology 2

From the adjective ly (“lew, tepid”).

Alternative forms

• lyna

Verb

lyne (present tense lynar, past tense lyna, past participle lyna, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyn)

1. (ergative) to lew

References

• “lyne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “lyne” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Anagrams

• ylen