lace
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See also lacé
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French las > Vulgar Latin *laceum > Latin laqueus
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[edit] Noun
lace (countable and uncountable; plural laces)
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
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fabric
cord for fastening a shoe or garment
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[edit] Verb
lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)
- (transitive) To fasten (something) with laces.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To interweave items. (lacing one's fingers together)
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel
[edit] Translations
fasten with laces
add something harmful to
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Terms derived from the noun or verb lace
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[edit] Adverb
lace
[edit] French
[edit] Verb
lace
- first-person singular present indicative of lacer
- third-person singular present indicative of lacer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- second-person singular imperative of lacer
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[edit] Latin
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lace
- second-person singular present active imperative of laciō
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
lace (infinitive lazar)
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- English terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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- English verbs
- Esperanto adverbs
- French verb forms
- Latin verb forms
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
