📖 L — The English dictionary · page 18

libel — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) A false written or published statement that damages a person's good name.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To publish something false that harms someone's reputation.↗ Example: The singer sued the newspaper for libel.↗ · Writing lies about someone online can be libel.↗ · The judge said the article was a libel.↗ · He was accused of libelling his neighbour.↗ · Truth is a defence against libel.↗ · The paper had to pay a large sum for the libel.↗

liberal — Everyday, meaning 1: Respecting people's freedom and willing to accept ideas and ways of life different from your own.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (politics) Believing in individual freedom, equal rights and gradual change; in the USA «liberal» often means left of centre.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (politics, Canada and Australia) The Liberal Party is a big party: in Canada it is centre or centre-left, in Australia it is centre-right.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Generous; given or used in large amounts.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Not exact or strict, as in a liberal translation.↗ Example: She put a liberal amount of jam on her toast.↗ · The Liberal Party won the election in Canada.↗ · In Australia, the Liberal Party is on the centre-right.↗ · My aunt has liberal views about how children should dress.↗ · A liberal democracy protects free speech and free elections.↗ · Dad is liberal with his praise.↗ · That's a very liberal translation; it changes some words.↗ · In the USA, people often argue about liberal and conservative ideas.↗ · Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obliging, as far as in him lay, those who had business with him.↗ · But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.↗ (Prophets ISA.32.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.↗ (Prophets ISA.32.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Many will entreat the favour of the liberal man; and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.↗ (Writings PRO.19.6, JPS 1917)↗

liberality — Everyday, meaning 1: Liberality is being generous, giving freely and willingly to others.↗ Example: The king was known for his liberality to the poor.↗ · Her liberality made everyone happy.↗ · We thanked him for his liberality.↗

liberally — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Liberally means in a generous way, giving a lot or giving freely.↗ Example: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.↗ (Torah DEU.15.14, JPS 1917)↗ · The baker shared his bread liberally.↗ · The workmen were paid liberally.↗ · Pour the sauce liberally over the pudding.↗

liberate — Everyday, meaning 1: To set a person, animal, place or country free from control, prison or an enemy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To free someone from something that limits them, such as rules or worries.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) To release a gas or energy: the reaction liberates heat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang, joking) To steal or take something quietly: who liberated my biscuits?↗ Example: The soldiers liberated the town and the people cheered.↗ · We liberated the trapped bird from the netting.↗ · Finishing my exams felt so liberating.↗ · Adding acid to the metal liberates hydrogen gas.↗ · The prisoners were liberated at last.↗ · Someone has liberated my pencil case again!↗ · Cutting her long hair short felt liberating.↗ · The new law liberated workers from very long hours.↗ · The hero succeeded in delivering Theseus, but when he endeavoured to liberate Pirithoeus, the earth shook so violently beneath him that he was compelled to relinquish his task.↗

liberated — Everyday, meaning 1: Set free from prison, an enemy army or control.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feeling free from rules, worries or old ideas (she felt liberated).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, jokey) Taken or "borrowed" without asking (he liberated a biscuit).↗ Example: The town was liberated by the soldiers.↗ · The animals were liberated from their cages.↗ · I felt liberated when the last exam finished.↗ · The prisoners were liberated after many years.↗ · Women fought to be liberated from unfair rules.↗ · Somebody liberated the last cupcake from the tin (jokey).↗ · I liberated fifteen prisoners, and one of them was Fionn.”↗

liberation — Everyday, meaning 1: Liberation is setting people or a place free from someone who controlled or imprisoned them, such as an enemy army.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Liberation is gaining equal rights and freedom for a group of people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A feeling of being free from worries or rules.↗ Example: The people cheered at the liberation of their town.↗ · Soldiers helped in the liberation of the prisoners.↗ · Women's liberation fought for equal rights.↗ · Leaving the plaster cast felt like liberation.↗ · The film tells the story of the city's liberation.↗ · Christians believe Jesus brings liberation from sin.↗

liberator — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, army or group that sets people or a place free from enemies, slavery or prison.↗ Example: The town welcomed the soldiers as liberators.↗ · Simón Bolívar is called «the Liberator» in South America.↗ · Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a liberator of enslaved people.↗ · In the story, the hero was a liberator who opened the prison gates.↗ · People threw flowers to the liberators.↗ · The liberators of the concentration camps found terrible things.↗

liberty — Everyday, meaning 1: Liberty is freedom: the right to live, speak and act as you choose without being controlled or imprisoned unfairly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At liberty means free, not in prison; or (formal) allowed to do something.↗ e.g. I am not at liberty to say.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A liberty is a cheeky or rude act; taking a liberty means doing something without permission.↗ Example: The Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbour.↗ · People have fought hard for liberty.↗ · The escaped tiger is still at liberty.↗ · I'm not at liberty to tell you the secret.↗ · I took the liberty of borrowing your pen.↗ · Eating my last biscuit — what a liberty!↗ · Liberty includes the freedom to speak your mind.↗ · There is nothing worth so much as liberty.↗ · The word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; (Prophets JER.34.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in Mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before Me in the house whereon My name is called; (Prophets JER.34.15, JPS 1917)↗

libra — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The seventh sign of the zodiac, shown as scales.↗ Example: [paragraph continues] Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagitarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Pisces.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · He produced Lamed, predominant in sexual desire, crowned, combined, and formed Libra in the world, Tisri in the year, and the gall in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He made the letter Lamed reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Libra in the World, and Tishri in the Year, and the liver in the Person.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

librarian — Everyday, meaning 1: A librarian is a person who works in a library, looks after the books and helps people find books and information.↗ Example: The librarian helped me find a book about sharks.↗ · Ask the librarian how to borrow a book.↗ · Our school librarian reads us stories.↗ · The librarian stamped my library card.↗ · She wants to be a librarian when she grows up.↗ · The librarian asked us to speak quietly.↗ · I am a pupil librarian on Fridays.↗ · The librarian put the returned books back on the shelves.↗

library — Everyday, meaning 1: A library is a place with many books, and often films and computers, that people can borrow or use.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A library is also a room in a school or house where books are kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A library is a collection of books, music or games that someone owns.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In computing, a library is a set of ready-made code.↗ Example: The library has 500 books.↗ · Each shelf holds 40 books.↗ · 25 books were borrowed and 10 returned.↗ · How many books are in the library now?↗ · I got my first library card today.↗ · Our class visits the school library every Friday.↗ · Please be quiet in the library.↗ · You must return the books within three weeks.↗ · The public library has free computers and story time.↗ · So Lionel went down into the library.↗ · All these translations are out of print and are rarely found even in well regulated libraries.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

libyan — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Of or from Libya, a country in North Africa.↗ Example: nary in which a large number of the characters are identical with the Libyan and Tilinagh.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The invention of such an alphabet as the Libyan must have con- sisted, chiefly of symbols for consonants, because vowel sym- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

licence — Everyday, meaning 1: A licence is an official paper or card that gives you permission to do or own something, such as drive a car, catch fish or sell food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Licence can also mean freedom to do or say what you like («poetic licence» means a writer may change facts or rules for effect).↗ Example: Mum showed her driving licence to the police officer.↗ · You need a licence to fish in this river.↗ · In the UK, families pay for a TV licence.↗ · Dad lost his licence for speeding.↗ · The café has a licence to sell food on the beach.↗ · The writer used poetic licence and made the castle taller.↗ · My big brother just got his learner's licence.↗ · The shop's licence is on the wall.↗

license — Everyday, meaning 1: A license is a written paper that says someone is allowed to do something, such as drive a car or keep a dog; in Britain the noun is spelled licence.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To license is to give someone official permission to do something.↗ Example: You need a license to drive a car.↗ · The king gave permission, a license to leave the land.↗ · The shop was licensed to sell sweets.↗ · New York, 1877↗ · license: Public Domain↗ · versionSource: https://archive.org/details/sketchoftalmudwo02kali (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Source: https://www.sefaria.org/api/v3/texts/Sefer%20Yetzirah?version=english%7CSefaria+Community+Translation Sefaria versionTitle: Sefaria Community Translation↗ · license: CC0↗ · versionSource: https://www.sefaria.org (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

licensed — Everyday, meaning 1: Licensed means having official permission to do something, such as a licensed driver, a licensed taxi or a licensed doctor.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A licensed shop, café or restaurant is allowed to sell alcohol.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A licensed product, like a toy or T-shirt, uses a famous name or character with the owner's permission.↗ Example: My big sister is now a licensed driver.↗ · Only take a licensed taxi.↗ · The doctor is licensed to work in hospitals.↗ · This café is licensed, so adults can have wine with dinner.↗ · The toy is officially licensed by the film company.↗ · A licensed electrician fixed our wiring.↗ · Pilots must be licensed to fly planes.↗ · You need to be licensed to sell fireworks.↗

lichen — Everyday, meaning 1: A lichen is a living thing that grows in crusty, leafy or bushy patches on rocks, walls, tree bark and gravestones; it is made of a fungus and a tiny alga (or bacteria) living together and helping each other.↗ Example: The old wall was covered in orange lichen.↗ · Lots of lichen on trees shows the air is clean.↗ · Lichen is made of a fungus and an alga living together.↗ · Reindeer eat lichen in winter.↗ · We did a lichen survey around the school grounds.↗ · Lichens grow very slowly, only a few millimetres a year.↗ · Grey lichen spread across the gravestone.↗ · Lichens can grow on bare rock where nothing else can.↗ · The roof, as far as one existed at all, was covered with moss and lichen.↗

lick — Everyday, meaning 1: To lick something means to move your tongue over it, to taste it, eat it or wet it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Flames lick something when they touch it lightly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A lick is one movement of the tongue.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A lick of paint means a thin coat of paint.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Lick can also mean to beat someone easily in a fight or contest.↗ Example: She licked the ice cream before it melted.↗ · The dog licked my face.↗ · Cats lick their fur to keep it clean.↗ · Don't lick your fingers after touching money.↗ · He licked his lips at the sight of the cake.↗ · Flames licked at the edge of the paper.↗ · The old fence needs a lick of paint.↗ · Never lick a frozen metal pole; your tongue can stick.↗ · I fought with him, and licked him."↗ · Let them that dwell in the wilderness bow before him; and his enemies lick the dust.↗ (Writings PSA.72.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.38, JPS 1917)↗ · And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; the harlots also washed themselves there; according unto the word of the LORD which He spoke.↗ (Prophets 1KI.22.38, JPS 1917)↗

lid — Everyday, meaning 1: A lid is a cover on top of a box, pot, jar or bin that you can lift or take off.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An eyelid is the skin that closes over your eye; sometimes just called a lid.↗ Example: Put the lid back on the jam jar.↗ · The lid of the box was stuck.↗ · Cover the pot with a lid so the water boils faster.↗ · Close the lid of the bin to keep foxes out.↗ · Lift the lid of the piano carefully.↗ · Steam was pushing the lid up and down.↗ · If a pan catches fire, put a lid on it and turn off the heat.↗ · Keep a lid on the secret until the party.↗ · The genius promised, and the fisherman lifted the lid.↗ · Thou holdest fast the lids of mine eyes; I am troubled, and cannot speak.↗ (Writings PSA.77.5, JPS 1917)↗