Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lace
Participle: laced
Gerund: lacing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | lace |
| you | lace |
| he;she;it | laces |
| we | lace |
| you | lace |
| they | lace |
Perfect
| I | have laced |
| you | have laced |
| he;she;it | has laced |
| we | have laced |
| you | have laced |
| they | have laced |
Past
| I | laced |
| you | laced |
| he;she;it | laced |
| we | laced |
| you | laced |
| they | laced |
Pluperfect
| I | had laced |
| you | had laced |
| he;she;it | had laced |
| we | had laced |
| you | had laced |
| they | had laced |
Future
| I | will lace |
| you | will lace |
| he;she;it | will lace |
| we | will lace |
| you | will lace |
| they | will lace |
Future Perfect
| I | will have laced |
| you | will have laced |
| he;she;it | will have laced |
| we | will have laced |
| you | will have laced |
| they | will have laced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lace |
| you | lace |
| he;she;it | lace |
| we | lace |
| you | lace |
| they | lace |
Perfect
| I | have laced |
| you | have laced |
| he;she;it | have laced |
| we | have laced |
| you | have laced |
| they | have laced |
Imperfect
| I | laced |
| you | laced |
| he;she;it | laced |
| we | laced |
| you | laced |
| they | laced |
Pluperfect
| I | had laced |
| you | had laced |
| he;she;it | had laced |
| we | had laced |
| you | had laced |
| they | had laced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lace |
| you | would lace |
| he;she;it | would lace |
| we | would lace |
| you | would lace |
| they | would lace |
Perfect
| I | would have laced |
| you | would have laced |
| he;she;it | would have laced |
| we | would have laced |
| you | would have laced |
| they | would have laced |
Imperative
| you | lace |
| we | Let's lace |
| you | lace |
Verbs conjugated like 'lace'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lace'
ace,
bace,
face,
lack,
lade,
lage,
lake,
lame,
lance,
lare,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1230, from O.Fr.
las "a net, noose, string" (Fr.
lacs), from V.L.
*lacium, from L.
laqueum (nom.
laqueus) "noose, snare" (It.
laccio, Sp.
lazo), a trapping and hunting term, probably from Italic base
*laq- "to ensnare" (cf. L.
lacere "to entice"). The "ornamental net pattern" meaning is first recorded 1555. Sense of "cord for tying" remains in
shoelace. To
lace coffee, etc., with a dash of liquor (1677) was originally used of sugar, and comes via the notion of "to ornament or trim."
Laced mutton was "an old word for a whore." [Johnson]
Lace-curtain "middle class" (or lower-class with middle-class pretensions) usually is used in ref. to Irish-Americans.
2. From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above). See: Old French '
lacer'.
Sample Sentences
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When Jenny's stays are newly laced. [1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:]
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to lace one's fingers together
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Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
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The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door. [1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:]
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Flanner's old-fashioned, staunch feminism runs throughout and laces together these letters. [1986 April 12, Robin Lippincott, “Passionate Friendship, Old-fashioned Feminism”, in Gay Community News, page 14:]
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For these and other reasons, you may want to lace a new rim onto an existing hub, or vice versa. For some reason, probably because of the maze and complex angles of spokes, lacing and building a wheel has for years been a virtual mystery to even skilled home bike mechanics. [1973 March 26, Eugene A. Sloane, “How to build and lace a bicycle wheel”, in Popular Mechanics, page 21:]
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I'll Lace your Coat for ye. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
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cloth laced with silver
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Under these windows, white and azure-laced [1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
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The throne speech opening the New Democrat government’s second legislative session Dec. 2 was a modest document featuring caution and pragmatism laced with a few tidbits of democratic socialism. [1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:]
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The world we lived in was wide, and most of it was open to us with little trouble. Roads, railways, and shipping lines laced it, ready to carry one thousands of miles safely and in comfort. [1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27:]