different between lure vs fascination

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *l?þr, from Proto-Germanic *l?þr-. Compare English allure, from Old French.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)??/, /l??(?)/, /l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l???/, /l??/, /l?/
• Homophone: lore (some accents)
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

lure (plural lures)

1. (also figuratively) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
2. (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
3. (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
4. A velvet smoothing brush.

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Translations

Verb

lure (third-person singular simple present lures, present participle luring, simple past and past participle lured)

1. To attract by temptation etc.

   Synonym: entice

2. (falconry) To recall a hawk with a lure.

Related terms

• allure

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr

Noun

lure (plural lures)

1. A trumpet with long curved tube, used for calling cattle, etc.

Anagrams

• ReLU, Ruel, Rule, rule

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

lure

1. definite singular of lur
2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German luren

Verb

lure (imperative lur, present tense lurer, passive lures, simple past lurte, past participle lurt, present participle lurende)

1. to deceive, trick
2. to lurk
3. to wonder (på / about)

References

• “lure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Adjective

lure

1. definite of lur
2. plural of lur

Etymology 2

Verb

lure (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)

1. Alternative form of lura

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish

Noun

lure f (oblique plural lures, nominative singular lure, nominative plural lures)

1. lure (bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk)

Descendants

• English: lure

References

• lure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek ?????????? (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”)Morphologically fascinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæs??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

fascination (countable and uncountable, plural fascinations)

1. (archaic) The act of bewitching, or enchanting

   Synonyms: enchantment, witchcraft

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

2. The state or condition of being fascinated.
   • 1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle

     Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
     The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.

   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China

     But the compensations are many: changing scenes, long days out of doors, freedom from the bondage of conventional life, and above all, the fascination of living among peoples of primitive simplicity and yet of a civilization so ancient that it makes all that is oldest in the West seem raw and crude and unfinished.

3. Something which fascinates.

Derived terms

• dread fascination

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.si.na.sj??/

Noun

fascination f (plural fascinations)

1. fascination

Related terms

• fasciner

Further reading

• “fascination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).