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Laced

Definitions: Laced

Laced

Adjective

1. Closed with a lace; "snugly laced shoes".

2. Edged or streaked with color; "white blossoms with purple-laced petals".

3. Having alcohol added; "a cup of brandy-laced coffee"; "he drank too much of the spiked punch".

4. Trimmed or decorated with lace.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "laced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Laced

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Laced Tea or coffee laced with spirits, a cup of tea or coffee qualified with brandy or whisky.
"Deacon Bearcliff ... had his pipe, and his teacup ... laced with a little spirits."- Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xi.
"Dandie ... partook of a cup of tea with Mrs. Allan, just laced with two teaspoonfuls of cogniac."- Ditto, chap. iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Laced

Synonyms: spiked (adj), tied (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: unlaced (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Laced

English words defined with "laced": Buff coatLaced muttonOxford, Oxford tieSail coattied. (references)
Specialty definitions using "laced": BUFFING-WHEEL FORMER, AUTOMATICcard-cutter helperhand lacer, HASTY PUDDINGLACED MUTTON, limbMagnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, median lacing of a trouser codendNUMBERER AND WIRERoxford shoeRUM KICKSSILVER LACED, straight lamp glass, strengthening lacing. (references)

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Modern Usage: Laced

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Cause I stay hip I stay laced ("Just A Friend"; performing artist: Mario)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Laced

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Laced

Computer Images:
Laced

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Sounds Captioned with "Laced".

PlayCaption
A chromatically laced excerpt for piano typical of a Chopin work.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Laced

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He wore army trousers and high laced boots.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Laced

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped structures that are laced throughout the body along the lymphatic routes. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

In other cases, victims must remain in unnatural positions for extended periods, or they have bags laced with insecticide, chili powder, or gasoline placed over their heads. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. 'Twas a pair of boots that the lady bought, And the salesman laced them tight To a very remarkable height -- Higher, indeed, than I think he ought -- Higher than can be right. For the Bible declares -- but never mind: It is hardly fit To censure freely and fault to find With others for sins that I'm not inclined Myself to commit. Each has his weakness, and though my own Is freedom from every sin, It still were unfair to pitch in, Discharging the first censorious stone. Besides, the truth compels me to say, The boots in question were made that way. As he drew the lace she made a grimace, And blushingly said to him: "This boot, I'm sure, is too high to endure, It hurts my -- hurts my -- limb." The salesman smiled in a manner mild, Like an artless, undesigning child; Then, checking himself, to his face he gave A look as sorrowful as the grave, Though he didn't care two figs For her paints and throes, As he stroked her toes, Remarking with speech and manner just Befitting his calling: "Madam, I trust That it doesn't hurt your twigs." B. Percival Dike

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Laced

"Laced" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 45.60% of the time. "Laced" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)45.6%5744,859
Lexical Verb (past tense)43.2%5446,184
Adjective (general or positive)10.4%1397,576
Noun (proper)0.8%1339,140
                    Total100.00%125N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Laced

Expressions using "laced": Laced mutton Laced stocking laced up strait laced tight laced. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "laced": laced-up.

Ending with "laced": straight-laced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Laced

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

laced wheels

22

laced

16

hangtyme laced

16

laced rim

9

laced weed

4

laced latex leg

3

laced silver wyandotte

2

laced silver wyandottes

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Laced

Language Translations for "laced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

系带. (various references)

   

Danish

  

snøresko (laced shoe), gitterstang (laced member, latticed member), finer med dekorativ overflade (laced veneer). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

veterschoen (laced shoe), vakwerkstaaf (laced member, latticed member), edelfineer (decorative veneer, face veneer, laced veneer, outer-ply, top veneer). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

säle (laced member, lath, latticed member, slat, splint), ristikkosauva (laced member, latticed member), nyörikenkä (laced shoe), nauhakenkä (laced shoe), nauhakas (laced shoe). (various references)

   

French

  

très guindé (strait laced), placage revêtu (laced veneer), placage de valeur (laced veneer), crâneur (strait laced), chaussure avec laçage (laced shoe), barre en treillis (laced member, latticed member). (various references)

   

German

  

schnürte, geschnürt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ράβδος δικτυώματος (laced member, latticed member), σεμνότυφοσ (demure, priggish, prude, prudish, straitlaced, tight laced), πουριτανόσ (prig, puritan, strait laced), υπόδημα με κορδόνι (laced shoe), διακοσμημένος καπλαμάς (laced veneer). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוסרי (ethical, moral, strait laced, virtuous), קפ" י (austere, exact, meticulous, pedantic, punctilious, rigorous, stern, strait laced, strict, stringent, thorough), ט"ר י (puristic, strait laced). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tarkított, tarkázott, tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, gaudy, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), színes (chromatic, colorful, colourful, multicoloured, picturesque, vivid), részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, bosky, drunk, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tanked, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out, woozy), díszített (decorated, pearly, purfled), csipkével díszített, csipkés (hackly, lacerated, lacy, notched, scalloped, serrulate), csíkos (banded, barred, brindled, streaked, streaky, striate, striated, striped, stripy), befűzött. (various references)

   

Italian

  

allacciato. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

編み上' (high laced shoes or boots), 編上' (high laced shoes or boots). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あみあ' (high laced shoes or boots). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

끈으로 묶". (various references)

   

Manx

  

bootsyn laatchit (laced boots). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acedlay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sapato de cordão (laced shoe), sapato de atacadores (laced shoe), camada revestida (laced veneer). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dantelat (indented, lacy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zapato con cordones (laced shoe), puritano (bluenose, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, strait laced), gazmoño (prig, priggish, prude, strait laced), chapa revestida (laced veneer), barra reticulada (laced member, latticed member), barra de celosía (laced member, latticed member). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snörsko (laced shoe), hopsnörd (compressed, laced up), gallerverkssträva (braced column, laced member, lattice column, latticed member), fackverksstång (laced member, latticed member), ädelfaner (laced veneer). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

içki katılmış (spiked), bağlı (adherent, adhesive, affiliated, amenable, appurtenant, attached, banded, bonded, bound, cohesive, conditional, conjoint, connected, consequent, corded, dependant, dependent, devoted, faithful, germane, hooked, incidental, observant, related, subject, subject to, subordinate, tied, under), bağcıklı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Laced

Derivations

Words ending with "laced": belaced, displaced, emplaced, enlaced, fireplaced, inlaced, interlaced, misplaced, palaced, placed, preplaced, relaced, replaced, solaced, straightlaced, straitlaced, unlaced, unplaced. (additional references)

Words containing "laced": straitlacedly, straitlacedness, straitlacednesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Laced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alce, Alcedo, Aldec, alfed, jaced, labed, lacen, lacet, lacid, Lacle, lacued, laked, lasce, lated, lawed, laxed, layed, layedh, lcd, lexed, liced, Lichedom, ljacii, Llacen, lucem, maced. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Laced"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "laced" (pronounced lā"st)
4l ā" s tdisplaced, interlaced, misplaced, placed, replaced, unplaced.
3-ā" s taced, based, braced, chased, chaste, debased, defaced, disgraced, distaste, embraced, encased, erased, faced, foretaste, graced, haste, paced, paste, raced, retraced, spaced, taste, traced, waist, waste.

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Anagrams: Laced

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clade, decal.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l"

-1 letter: aced, alec, cade, clad, dace, dale, deal, lace, lade, lead.

-2 letters: ace, ale, cad, cel, dal, del, eld, lac, lad, lea, led.

-3 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l"
 

+1 letter: alcade, cabled, calked, called, calmed, calved, candle, caudle, cedula, clades, clawed, clayed, coaled, colead, cradle, credal, decals, declaw, lacked, lanced, macled, placed, reclad, scaled, talced.

 

+2 letters: alcades, alcaide, alcalde, alcayde, alcoved, belaced, blacked, cackled, cadelle, cajoled, caldera, calends, calqued, canaled, candela, candled, candler, candles, caroled, castled, caudles, caulked, caviled, cedilla, cedulas, celadon, chalked, citadel, clacked, cladode, clagged, claimed, clammed, clamped, clanged, clanked, clapped, clashed, clasped, classed, cleaned, cleared, cleated, cleaved, cloaked, codable, coleads, craaled, cradled, cradler, cradles, crawled, creedal, debacle, decadal, decalog, decanal, decimal, declaim, declare, declass, declaws, decrial, deltaic, dewclaw, dialect, edictal, enlaced, flacked, glaceed, glanced, hackled, inlaced, latched, leached, located, mackled, maculed, medical, palaced, pedocal, radicel, radicle, relaced, scalade, scalded, scalped, slacked, solaced, tackled, talcked, unlaced.

 

+3 letters: accolade, aceldama, acylated, aecidial, alcaides, alcaldes, alcaydes, alcidine, algicide, articled, auricled, balanced, barleduc, becalmed, blanched, bleached, blockade, boldface, caballed, caboodle, cadelles, calcined, calderas, calendal, calendar, calender, calibred, callused, camailed, canalled, canceled, candelas, candlers, canfield, canoodle, capsuled, carolled, caseload, cavilled, cedillas, celadons, cellared, cephalad, chadless, chaliced, chandler, chelated, ciliated, citadels, cladodes, clamored, clavered, cleansed, climaxed, clodpate, coalshed, colander, coleader, collaged, collared, collated, conelrad, crackled, cradlers, crankled, cupolaed, deadlock, debacles, decalogs, decidual, decimals, declaims, declared, declarer, declares, declasse, declawed, decretal, decrials, deicidal, deifical, delegacy, delicacy, delicate, dewclaws, diacetyl, dialects, displace, dulcinea, ecdysial, ecocidal, educable, emplaced, escalade, falcated, headlock, heraldic, lacertid, lacewood, lackered, lackeyed, lactated, laicised, laicized, lanceted, latticed, launched, maledict, manacled, medallic, medicals, melodica, muscadel, panicled, parceled, pedocals, placated, pleached, plicated, radicels, radicles, recalled, recoaled, replaced, rescaled, sacredly, scabbled, scalades, sclaffed, scrawled, shackled, spackled, sulcated, trachled, uncalled, unplaced, unscaled, upscaled, valanced.

 

+4 letters: abdicable, acclaimed, accolades, aceldamas, acidulate, acidulent, afflicted, aldehydic, algaecide, algicides, allocated, anecdotal, asclepiad, backfield, backpedal, backslide, balconied, barleducs, barnacled, bechalked, beclasped, becloaked, becrawled, benchland, blackened, blackhead, blacklead, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockhead, boldfaced, boldfaces, caboodles, cadential, calamined, calcified, calendars, calenders, calendric, calendula, calipered, calloused, calorized, canalised, canalized, cancelled, candlelit, candlenut, candlepin, canfields, canoodled, canoodles, canulated, caprioled, caracoled, carpooled, caseloads, cataloged, catalyzed, catcalled, cathedral, cavalcade, celandine, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, channeled, chapleted, cheerlead, chlamydes, chlordane, cichlidae, clabbered, clambered, clamoured, clangored, clarified, clarioned, clattered, claughted, clepsydra, clodpates, coalesced, coalfield, coalified, coalsheds, colanders, coleaders, coleading, collapsed, colocated, colonnade, comradely, concealed, conelrads, conflated, congealed, copulated, cordately, corelated, corralled, cumulated, curtailed, dalliance, danceable, deadlocks, decalcify, decaliter, decalogue, decathlon, decennial, decidable, decimally, declaimed, declaimer, declarant, declarers, declaring, declassed, declasses, declawing, decollate, decretals, defalcate, deistical, delicates, demonical, diacetyls, dialectal, dialectic, discalced, dislocate, displaced, displaces, downscale, dreadlock, dulcineas, duplicate, educables, elucidate, enchilada, enclasped, escaladed, escalader, escalades, escalated, escaloped, euclidean, euclidian, exclaimed, fascicled, focalised, focalized, garlicked, genocidal, glaciated, hatcheled, headlocks, identical, inclasped, indexical, jaculated, lacerated, lacertids, lacewoods, lacquered, lacqueyed, lancewood, landscape, larvicide, leadscrew, lidocaine, localised, localized, logaoedic, maculated, maledicts, marcelled, medicable, medically, medicinal, melodicas, miscalled, misplaced, muscadels, nucleated, opalesced, osculated, padlocked, parcelled, peculated, pedocalic, pinnacled, placarded, playacted, preplaced, reclaimed, reclasped, recleaned, regicidal, relocated, retackled, scalloped, scandaled, scrabbled, scrambled, slackened, slipcased, spanceled, tentacled, trauchled, ulcerated, unclaimed, unclamped, unclasped, uncleaned, uncloaked, unlatched, veridical, victualed, vocalised, vocalized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Laced


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 63 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -.-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0063 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667697170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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