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» lance
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Noun (3 meanings)
lance is a type of:
- weapon, arm, weapon system (noun) - any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
types of lance:
- assegai, assagai (noun) - the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
- javelin (noun) - a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events
- trident (noun) - a spear with three prongs
parts of lance:
- barb (noun) - a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
- spearhead, spearpoint, spear-point (noun) - the head and sharpened point of a spear
lance is derivationally related to:
2. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
lance is a type of:
- implement (noun) - instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
types of lance:
- harpoon (noun) - a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing
- leister (noun) - a spear with three or more prongs
lance is a member of:
- fishing gear, tackle, fishing tackle, fishing rig, rig (noun) - gear used in fishing
lance is derivationally related to:
- to spear (verb) - pierce with a spear
3. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions.
lance is a type of:
- surgical knife (noun) - a very sharp knife used in surgery
lance is derivationally related to:
- to lance (verb) - open by piercing with a lancet
Verb (3 meanings)
1. move quickly, as if by cutting one's way.
to lance
Example:
- “Planes lanced towards the shore”
2. pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.
to lance
» lanius
Noun (1 meaning)
1. type genus of the Laniidae: typical shrikes.
lanius is a type of:
- bird genus (noun) - a genus of birds
lanius is a member of:
- Laniidae, family Laniidae (noun) - shrikes
members of lanius:
- butcherbird (noun) - shrikes that impale their prey on thorns
- loggerhead shrike, Lanius lucovicianus (noun) - a common shrike of southeastern United States having black bands around the eyes
» lansa
Noun (1 meaning)
lansa is a type of:
- edible fruit (noun) - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
lansa is a part of:
- lanseh tree, langsat, langset, Lansium domesticum (noun) - East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry
» lanseh
Noun (1 meaning)
lanseh is a type of:
- edible fruit (noun) - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
lanseh is a part of:
- lanseh tree, langsat, langset, Lansium domesticum (noun) - East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry
» launce
Noun (1 meaning)
1. very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
launce is a type of:
- spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian (noun) - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
launce is a member of:
- Ammodytes, genus Ammodytes (noun) - type genus of the Ammodytidae
» leanness
Noun (2 meanings)
1. the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot.
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
leanness is a type of:
- insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency (noun) - lack of an adequate quantity or number
types of leanness:
- abstemiousness (noun) - restricted to bare necessities
- sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness (noun) - the property of being scanty or scattered
- wateriness (noun) - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
leanness is derivationally related to:
- bare, scanty, spare (adjective) - lacking in amplitude or quantity
- exiguous (adjective) - extremely scanty
- inadequate, poor, short (adjective) - not sufficient to meet a need
- lean (adjective) - not profitable or prosperous
- lean (adjective) - lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lean, skimpy (adjective) - containing little excess
- light, scant, short (adjective) - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy (adjective) - deficient in amount or quality or extent
- poor (adjective) - lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances
leanness is the opposite of:
- fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois (noun) - excess bodily weight
leanness is a type of:
- bodily property (noun) - an attribute of the body
types of leanness:
- bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration (noun) - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- skinniness, scrawniness (noun) - the bodily property of lacking flesh
- slenderness, slightness, slimness (noun) - the property of an attractively thin person
- wiriness (noun) - the property of being lean and tough and sinewy
leanness is derivationally related to:
» lennoaceae
Noun (1 meaning)
1. family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico.
lennoaceae is a type of:
- dilleniid dicot family (noun) - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
lennoaceae is a member of:
- Ericales, order Ericales (noun) - Ericaceae
» lens
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Noun (5 meanings)
1. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
lens is a type of:
- optical device (noun) - a device for producing or controlling light
types of lens:
- Fresnel lens (noun) - lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length
- anastigmat (noun) - compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images
- anastigmatic lens (noun) - a lens designed to correct astigmatism
- camera lens, optical lens (noun) - a lens that focuses the image in a camera
- compound lens (noun) - a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis
- condenser, optical condenser (noun) - lens used to concentrate light on an object
- contact, contact lens (noun) - a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- converging lens, convex lens (noun) - lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus
- crown lens (noun) - a lens made of optical crown glass
- diverging lens, concave lens (noun) - a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out
- eyepiece, ocular (noun) - combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
- field lens (noun) - the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens
- intraocular lens (noun) - an artificial lens that is implanted into the eye of someone to replace a damaged natural lens or someone who has had a cataract removed
- meniscus (noun) - (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other
- monocle, eyeglass (noun) - lens for correcting defective vision in one eye
- objective, objective lens, object lens, object glass (noun) - the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
lens is a part of:
- optical instrument (noun) - an instrument designed to aid vision
2. genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils.
lens is a type of:
- rosid dicot genus (noun) - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
lens is a member of:
- Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae (noun) - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
3. (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood.
Example:
- “the writer is the lens through which history can be seen”
lens is a type of:
- channel, communication channel, line (noun) - (often plural) a means of communication or access
Domain of synset - USAGE:
- trope, figure of speech, figure, image (noun) - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
4. biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina.
lens is a type of:
- organ (noun) - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
lens is a part of:
parts of lens:
- lens capsule (noun) - a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye
- lens cortex, cortex (noun) - the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
5. electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons.
lens is a type of:
- electronic equipment (noun) - equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor)
» lense
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Noun (1 meaning)
1. a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
lense is a type of:
- optical device (noun) - a device for producing or controlling light
types of lense:
- Fresnel lens (noun) - lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length
- anastigmat (noun) - compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images
- anastigmatic lens (noun) - a lens designed to correct astigmatism
- camera lens, optical lens (noun) - a lens that focuses the image in a camera
- compound lens (noun) - a lens system consisting of two or more lenses on the same axis
- condenser, optical condenser (noun) - lens used to concentrate light on an object
- contact, contact lens (noun) - a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- converging lens, convex lens (noun) - lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus
- crown lens (noun) - a lens made of optical crown glass
- diverging lens, concave lens (noun) - a lens such that a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out
- eyepiece, ocular (noun) - combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
- field lens (noun) - the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens
- intraocular lens (noun) - an artificial lens that is implanted into the eye of someone to replace a damaged natural lens or someone who has had a cataract removed
- meniscus (noun) - (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other
- monocle, eyeglass (noun) - lens for correcting defective vision in one eye
- objective, objective lens, object lens, object glass (noun) - the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
lense is a part of:
- optical instrument (noun) - an instrument designed to aid vision
» linaceae
Noun (1 meaning)
1. a widely distributed family of plants.
linaceae is a type of:
- dicot family, magnoliopsid family (noun) - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
members of linaceae:
- Linum, genus Linum (noun) - a herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves