different between whip vs lasso

English

Etymology

From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjan? (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root ???? (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibr? (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?p, IPA^(key): /w?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• enPR: hw?p, IPA^(key): /??p/

Noun

whip (plural whips)

1. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
   1. The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.

2. A blow administered with a whip.
   • 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)

     I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.

3. (hunting) A whipper-in.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 27:

     From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.

4. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.

5. (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
6. Whipped cream.

7. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
8. (African-American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
   • 2017, Stormzy, Return of the Rucksack

     Big whip I'm underground parking

9. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
10. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.

11. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
12. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
    1. A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
    2. (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
13. (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.

Synonyms

• (last for directing animals): crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
• (lash for corporal punishment): cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
• (political party enforcer): party whip

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• whip snake

Translations

Verb

whip (third-person singular simple present whips, present participle whipping, simple past and past participle whipped)

1. (transitive) To hit with a whip.

2. (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.

3. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
4. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.

5. (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.

6. (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
7. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
   • 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises

     Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut

8. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.

   • In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.

10. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
11. (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac

      whipping its rough surface for a trout

12. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.

13. (intransitive) To move very fast.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

      He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.

14. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
    • 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann

      He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.

15. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
16. (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
17. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

Synonyms

• (to hit with a whip): Thesaurus:whip
• (to move very fast): flail
• thrash
• thresh

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ghost ride the whip

References

• Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books : [2]

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• lassu (archaic)
• lazo (archaic)

Etymology

From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) enPR: l?so?o', l?so?o', IPA^(key): /læs?u?/, /l?s?u?/
• (US) enPR: l?s'?, l?s'o?o, IPA^(key): /?læs.o?/, /?læs.u/
• Rhymes: -æs??

Noun

lasso (plural lassos or lassoes)

1. A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
2. (computing) An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

Descendants

• ? Czech: laso
• ? Dutch: lasso
• ? Finnish: lasso
• ? German: Lasso
• ? Hungarian: lasszó
• ? Italian: lasso
• ? Macedonian: ???? (laso)
• ? Russian: ?????? (lassó)
• ? Slovene: laso

Translations

Verb

lasso (third-person singular simple present lassoes, present participle lassoing, simple past and past participle lassoed)

1. (transitive) To catch with a lasso.

Derived terms

• lassoer
• lassoist

Translations

See also

• lariat
• noose

Anagrams

• soals

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English lasso, from Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.so?/
• Hyphenation: las?so

Noun

lasso m (plural lasso's, diminutive lassootje n)

1. lasso

Derived terms

• lassoën

Finnish

Etymology

English lasso

Noun

lasso

1. lasso

Declension

Derived terms

• lassota

See also

• suopunki

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?las.so/
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: làs?so

Etymology 1

From Latin lassus (“weary”, “tired”).

Adjective

lasso (feminine lassa, masculine plural lassi, feminine plural lasse) (obsolete, literary)

1. tired, weary, fatigued, weak

   Synonyms: affaticato, provato, stanco, spossato

   Antonyms: energico, gagliardo, riposato

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto I, p. 8, vv. 28-30:

     Poi ch'ei posato un poco il corpo lasso, ¶ ripresi via per la piaggia diserta, ¶ sì che 'l piè fermo sempre era 'l più basso.

     After my weary body I had rested, ¶ the way resumed I on the desert slope, ¶ so that the firm foot ever was the lower.

2. miserable, unhappy, bleak

   Synonyms: infelice, misero, tapino

   Antonyms: beato, contento, felice

Etymology 2

From Latin laxus (“yielding”, “loose”).

Adjective

lasso (feminine lassa, masculine plural lassi, feminine plural lasse) (dated, literary)

1. lax, loose

   Synonyms: lasco, lento

   Antonym: stretto

2. (figuratively) lax, lenient, permissive

   Synonyms: lassista, permissivo

   Antonyms: intransigente, inflessibile, rigido, rigoroso

Related terms

• lassamente
• lassativo
• lassismo
• lasciare

Etymology 3

From Latin l?psus, perfect participle of l?bor (“I slip, flow”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

Noun

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. (only in the locution lasso di tempo) flow, passage, period (of time)

Related terms

• lasso di tempo

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English lasso, from Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lazo.

Noun

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. lariat, lasso

   Synonyms: laccio, lazo

Etymology 5

From lassare, older variant of lasciare (“to leave”, “to allow”).

Noun

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lassa

Anagrams

• salso

Latin

Etymology

From lassus (“faint, weary”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?las.so?/, [???äs??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?las.so/, [?l?s??]

Verb

lass? (present infinitive lass?re, perfect active lass?v?, supine lass?tum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust; I render faint.

Conjugation

Related terms

• lassesc?
• lassit?d?
• lassulus
• lassus

References

• lasso in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lasso in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lasso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lasso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From English lasso, from Spanish lazo, from Latin laqueus (“noose, trap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?las.s?/

Noun

lasso n

1. lasso (long rope with a sliding loop)

   Synonym: arkan

Declension

Further reading

• lasso in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lasso in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese lasso, from Latin lassus (“weary; exhausted”), from Proto-Indo-European *led- (“slow; weary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.su/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?la.so/
• Homophone: laço
• Hyphenation: las?so

Adjective

lasso m (feminine singular lassa, masculine plural lassos, feminine plural lassas, comparable)

1. weary; very tired; exhausted

   Synonyms: cansadíssimo, exausto, fatigado

2. (of a person) degenerate; dissolute (unrestrained by morality)

   Synonyms: degenerado, devasso, imoral, indecente

3. lax; loose (not tight)

   Synonyms: frouxo, lasseiro, laxo, relaxado, solto

4. worn out (damaged and useless due to hard or continued use)

   Synonyms: gasto, laxo

Antonyms

• (very tired): descansado
• (degenerate): casto, decente, decoroso
• (lax): apertado, retesado

Related terms