lacing
present participle oflace
lace
verb[T]
uk/leɪs/us/leɪs/laceverb[T](ADD ALCOHOL)
toaddalcoholordrugstofoodordrink, oftensecretly:
coffeelacedwithbrandy
Drinking alcohol
- abstinence
- abstinence-only
- after hoursidiom
- bar-hop
- barhopping
- drinker
- drinking
- drinking game
- drinking-up time
- drownyoursorrowsidiom
- hangover
- hatch
- out of hoursidiom
- outdrink
- overdrink
- paint
- paint the town redidiom
- ply
- poison
- spike
laceverb[T](STRING)
to put the lace of ashoeorbootthroughitsholes, or tofastenashoeorbootbytyinga lace
Fasteners for clothes
- belt
- buckle
- buckled
- button fly
- button-through
- cinch
- eyelet
- fastener
- flies
- fly
- grommet
- hook and eye
- sash
- snap
- snap fastener
- stud
- suspender
- toggle
- Velcro
- zipsomething/someoneup
Phrasal verb
lacesomethingup
Examplesoflacing
lacing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Repairs were made by drilling holes along cracks, which were then drawn together with fiber in a process called cracklacing.
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The number of barbed wires, lacings, droppers and straining posts, as well as the distance between fence posts, further determined the strength, as well as the cost, of the fence.
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If a threat does not exist, the nationalist manufactures it,lacinghis accusations with alleged historic wrongs.
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Everyone knows that, because he has tried to sit on the bed whilelacinghis shoes, and has found he could not do it.
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As so often, he has illuminated his speech with a personal anecdote, as well aslacingit with a touch of history.
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When we oppose these things please let us understand that this is not some rigid, arbitrary measure, but islacingintroduced because we know what we are talking about.
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He suggested thelacingthe world with telegraphs and railways, carrying the water in tunnels under the land, and the raising on every hand of the monuments of industry.
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A small grommet may also be called an eyelet, used for example on shoes, tarps and sails forlacingpurposes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Leather belts were fastened in loops with rawhide or wirelacing, lap joints and glue, or one of several types of steel fasteners.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are connected by verticals and diagonals of consisting of two angles and spacers each; the verticals further have two channels withlacing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Closes can utilizelacingwith eyelets, zippers, straps with buckles, or combinations of all three.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Multiple lames are riveted together or connected by leather straps or clothlacingto form an articulated piece of armor that provides flexible protection.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The western span has been retrofitted with bolted plates replacing thelacingfor added strength.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the baker who had been charged withlacingbread with arsenic bungled the attempt by putting an excess of the poison into the dough.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Lacingtheir scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.
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