lace
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See also lacé
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From Old French las > Vulgar Latin *laceum > Latin laqueus
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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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to 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
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fasten with laces
add something harmful to
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- Anagrams of acel
- Alec
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lace
[edit] French
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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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lace (infinitive: lazar)
- first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lazar.
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