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Definitions: Laced |
LacedAdjective1. 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) |
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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. | |
Synonyms: LacedSynonyms: spiked (adj), tied (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unlaced (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Laced |
| English words defined with "laced": Buff coat ♦ Laced mutton ♦ Oxford, Oxford tie ♦ Sail coat ♦ tied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laced": BUFFING-WHEEL FORMER, AUTOMATIC ♦ card-cutter helper ♦ hand lacer, HASTY PUDDING ♦ LACED MUTTON, limb ♦ Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, median lacing of a trouser codend ♦ NUMBERER AND WIRER ♦ oxford shoe ♦ RUM KICKS ♦ SILVER LACED, straight lamp glass, strengthening lacing. (references) |
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Lyrics | Cause I stay hip I stay laced ("Just A Friend"; performing artist: Mario) | |
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| A chromatically laced excerpt for piano typical of a Chopin work. | |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wore army trousers and high laced boots. |
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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 |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 45.6% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 43.2% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.4% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "laced": Laced mutton ♦ Laced stocking ♦ laced up ♦ strait laced ♦ tight laced. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "laced": laced-up. | |
Ending with "laced": straight-laced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laced" (pronounced lā"st) |
| 4 | l ā" s t | displaced, interlaced, misplaced, placed, replaced, unplaced. |
| 3 | -ā" s t | aced, 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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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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 65 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667697170 |
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