📖 L — The English dictionary · page 26

lo — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Look!↗ See!↗ Behold!↗ Example: Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.↗ (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917) · 'Lo! did I not speak well?↗ (The Orange Fairy Book) · And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.↗ (Torah NUM.23.6, JPS 1917)

load — Everyday, meaning 1: A load is something heavy that is carried, for example by a truck, a person or a washing machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To load means to put things into or onto a car, ship, machine or bag.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A load or loads (informal) means a lot: loads of friends.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To load a computer program or page means to make it open and appear.↗ Example: The truck carries a heavy load of sand.↗ · Help me load the car for the holiday.↗ · I have loads of homework tonight.↗ · Put a load of washing in the machine.↗ · The page is taking ages to load.↗ · The bridge can hold a load of 20 tonnes.↗ · A lever helps you lift a heavy load with less effort.↗ · The camel carried a load on its back.↗ · Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle; the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.↗ (Prophets ISA.46.1, JPS 1917)↗

loaf — Everyday, meaning 1: A loaf is bread baked in one big piece, before it is cut into slices.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A meat loaf is minced meat cooked in a loaf shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To loaf, or loaf around, is to spend time doing nothing.↗ Example: A baker makes 40 loaves a day.↗ · Each loaf has 12 slices.↗ · A loaf costs 2 dollars.↗ · How many loaves for 60 slices?↗ · Please buy a loaf of bread on the way home.↗ · The Little Red Hen baked a loaf all by herself.↗ · The fresh loaf smelled wonderful.↗ · He loafed around all Saturday.↗ · 'Crumble those three loaves for the ants,' he said.↗ · and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.29.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.23.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore what is under thy hand? five loaves of bread? give them in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.21.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, but the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.↗ (Writings PRO.6.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.14.3, JPS 1917)↗

loam — Everyday, meaning 1: Loam is rich, dark soil made of a good mix of sand, silt and clay, with rotting plants in it; it is very good for growing things.↗ Example: Loam is the best soil for vegetables.↗ · The garden has dark, crumbly loam.↗ · We tested sand, clay and loam to see which drains best.↗ · Loamy soil holds water but doesn't flood.↗ · The farmer was pleased with the rich loam.↗ · Mix compost into the soil to make it more like loam.↗

loan — Everyday, meaning 1: A loan is money that someone borrows and must pay back, often with extra money called interest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A loan is something lent to someone for a while: «The book is on loan.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To loan means to lend.↗ Example: They took out a loan to buy a car.↗ · The painting is on loan to the museum.↗ · You must pay back a loan.↗ · The library loaned us twenty books for the project.↗ · If you borrow £100 and pay 5% interest, you pay back £105.↗ · He asked his sister for a small loan.↗ · The player is on loan to another club.↗ · Never agree to a loan from a stranger online.↗ · When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.↗ (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.'↗ And they would go unto their own home.↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.20, JPS 1917)↗

loanword — Everyday, meaning 1: A word one language has taken from another language and now uses as its own, like «pizza» from Italian or «kindergarten» from German.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (language study) Any borrowed word, studied to see where words came from.↗ Example: «Pyjamas» is a loanword from Hindi and Urdu.↗ · «Shampoo» is a loanword from Hindi too.↗ · Our teacher showed us that «chocolate» is a loanword from Spanish, which took it from Nahuatl.↗ · Japanese has many English loanwords, like «aisu kuriimu» for ice cream.↗ · «Safari» came into English as a loanword from Swahili.↗ · Many loanwords keep their foreign spelling, such as «croissant».↗ · We made a poster of loanwords and the countries they came from.↗ · «Boomerang» is a loanword from an Aboriginal language of Australia.↗

loath — Everyday, meaning 1: Loath means unwilling, not wanting to do something: loath to go.↗ Example: He was loath to go to bed.↗ · The goddess was loath to say goodbye.↗ · I am loath to spoil the game.↗ · For thou loathest it, so that thou must choose, and not I; therefore speak what thou knowest.↗ (Writings JOB.34.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; 'for My soul became impatient of them, and their soul also loathed Me.'↗ (Prophets ZEC.11.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.45, JPS 1917)↗

loathe — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To hate something and feel disgusted by it.↗ Example: And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'↗ (Torah EXO.7.18, JPS 1917)↗ · I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.↗ (Writings JOB.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.↗ (Prophets EZK.36.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.↗ (Prophets EZK.20.43, JPS 1917)↗

loathsome — Everyday, meaning 1: Loathsome means so nasty or disgusting that people hate it.↗ Example: The smell from the bin was loathsome.↗ · The witch looked loathsome.↗ · Lies are loathsome to honest people.↗ · My breath is abhorred of my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my tribe.↗ (Writings JOB.19.17, JPS 1917)↗

loathsomeness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The state of being disgusting or hateful to look at or think about.↗ Example: No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field in the loathsomeness of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.5, JPS 1917)↗

lob — Everyday, meaning 1: To lob something is to throw or hit it high in the air, in a slow curve.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In tennis, football and other games, a lob is a high shot over an opponent's head.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, UK and Australia) To lob something is to throw it carelessly: «Lob it in the bin».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, Australia and New Zealand) To lob or lob in is to arrive, often unexpectedly: «He lobbed in at midnight».↗ Example: She lobbed the ball over the goalkeeper's head.↗ · His lob landed just inside the line.↗ · «Lob us the keys, would you?»↗ · He lobbed his bag onto the bed.↗ · The cousins lobbed in for lunch without warning.↗ · The snowball was lobbed high over the fence.↗ · A lob is hard to return if you are close to the net.↗

lobby — Everyday, meaning 1: A large hall or entrance area just inside the front door of a hotel, theatre, flats or office building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group of people who try to get politicians to make or change laws for their cause: the farming lobby.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To try to persuade politicians or people in charge to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK) A hall in Parliament where members of the public can meet MPs.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A lobby can also be a hall or passage inside a house, such as one upstairs.↗ Example: We waited for Grandma in the hotel lobby.↗ · The lobby of the cinema smelled of popcorn.↗ · Our class lobbied the head teacher for a longer break.↗ · The parents lobbied the council for a new crossing outside school.↗ · A big lobby group is against the new law.↗ · Meet me in the lobby at the front door.↗ · The environmental lobby wants fewer plastic bags.↗ · The flats have a lobby with a lift and mailboxes.↗ · "I have just a ceiling to finish in an upper lobby," said Gobborn, "and then it wants nothing."↗

lobe — Everyday, meaning 1: An earlobe (lobe) is the soft round part at the bottom of your ear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A lobe is a round part of an organ, like the lobes of the brain, the lungs or the liver.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A lobe is a rounded part of a leaf or another shape that sticks out.↗ Example: She has her ear lobes pierced.↗ · The frontal lobe of the brain helps us plan.↗ · The right lung has three lobes.↗ · Oak leaves have wavy lobes.↗ · The occipital lobe helps us see.↗ · My earlobes get cold in winter.↗ · But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah LEV.9.10, JPS 1917)↗ · and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.↗ (Torah LEV.9.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.↗ (Torah LEV.3.10, JPS 1917)↗

lobed — Everyday, meaning 1: Having lobes: rounded parts that stick out, like the parts of an oak leaf or of an ear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Divided into rounded sections, like a lung or the brain.↗ Example: An oak leaf is lobed, with round bumps along its edge.↗ · We sorted our leaves into lobed and smooth ones.↗ · The maple leaf on Canada's flag is lobed with sharp points.↗ · The human brain is lobed, and each lobe has different jobs.↗ · Some lobed leaves look a bit like a hand.↗ · The scientist drew a three-lobed flower.↗ · Ivy leaves are often lobed.↗ · The lungs are lobed: the right lung has three lobes and the left has two.↗

lobster — Everyday, meaning 1: A sea animal with a hard shell, ten legs and two big claws, related to crabs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Its meat, eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Someone badly sunburnt is "red as a lobster".↗ Example: A lobster has two big claws for crushing food.↗ · Fishermen catch lobsters in traps called lobster pots.↗ · Live lobsters are usually dark green or blue, not red.↗ · They had lobster for a special dinner.↗ · After the beach, I was as red as a lobster!↗ · Lobsters grow by shedding their shells.↗

local — Everyday, meaning 1: Local means belonging to or near the place where you live, or a particular area.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The locals are the people who live in a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In Britain, «the local» can mean the nearby pub.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In medicine, a local anaesthetic numbs only one part of the body.↗ Example: We borrow books from our local library.↗ · The local park has a new playground.↗ · We asked a local for directions.↗ · Buy fruit from local farmers.↗ · It's 9 o'clock local time.↗ · The local news talked about the flood.↗ · Our local football team won the cup.↗ · It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham.↗

locality — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) An area or neighbourhood; the place around a particular point.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The exact place where something is found or happens, for example where a rock or plant was found.↗ Example: There are three schools in the locality.↗ · We drew a map of our locality in geography.↗ · The fossil was found in a locality near the coast.↗ · Residents of the locality complained about the noise.↗ · Is there a library in this locality?↗ · The police searched the immediate locality.↗ · The plant grows only in one small locality.↗ · Our locality has a park, a shop and a bus stop.↗ · They therefore attribute more importance than I to the exact form in which it is found and restrict it to the locality of birth.↗ · These Seven Double Letters point out seven localities; Above, Below, East, West, North, South, and the Palace of Holiness in the midst of them sustaining all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · These Seven Double Letters point out seven localities ; Above, Below, East, West, North, South, and the Palace of HoHness in the midst of them sus- taining all things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

locally — Everyday, meaning 1: In or near the place where you are or where you live; nearby.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In one small part rather than everywhere, such as one spot on the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (business) Made, grown or sold in the nearby area, not brought from far away.↗ Example: We buy our eggs locally from a farm down the road.↗ · The hill is known locally as Witch's Hat.↗ · Mum likes to shop locally to help small businesses.↗ · The cream works locally, only where you rub it.↗ · The storm caused flooding locally, but the rest of the country was dry.↗ · Our school uses locally grown apples at lunch.↗ · The festival is famous locally but few tourists have heard of it.↗ · Think globally, act locally.↗