📖 L — The English dictionary · page 5

landscape — Everyday, meaning 1: A landscape is everything you can see when you look across a wide area of land: hills, fields, rivers, trees and buildings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A landscape is also a painting or photo of such a view.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Landscape (format) means a page or screen that is wider than it is tall.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To landscape a garden or park is to change its shape and plant things to make it look nicer.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The landscape of something is its general situation, for example «the political landscape».↗ Example: The landscape around the lake was green and hilly.↗ · Glaciers shaped the landscape of Scotland.↗ · We painted a landscape with a red sky.↗ · Turn the paper to landscape for your poster.↗ · Hold the tablet in landscape to watch the video.↗ · They landscaped the school garden with ponds and paths.↗ · Factories changed the landscape of the town.↗ · The desert landscape looked empty and dry.↗ · Grand, dark, and gloomy appeared the landscape around him.↗

landslide — Everyday, meaning 1: A large mass of earth, rocks and mud suddenly sliding down a hill or mountain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (politics) A huge win in an election, by far more votes than the others.↗ Example: After days of rain, a landslide blocked the mountain road.↗ · Tree roots help to stop landslides on steep hills.↗ · The village was evacuated because of the danger of a landslide.↗ · She won the class election by a landslide, with 25 votes out of 28.↗ · Earthquakes can trigger landslides.↗ · Rescue teams searched the mud after the landslide.↗

lane — Everyday, meaning 1: A lane is a narrow road, especially in the countryside.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A lane is one strip of a road for one line of cars.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A lane is one strip of a running track or swimming pool for one person.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A lane in a bowling alley is the long wooden path the ball rolls down.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Lane is also a surname, a family name shared by some people.↗ Example: We walked down the lane to the farm.↗ · Stay in your lane when you swim.↗ · The motorway has three lanes.↗ · Ride your bike in the bike lane.↗ · She ran in lane four and won the race.↗ · My friend lives at 12 Oak Lane.↗ · The ball rolled into the gutter instead of down the lane.↗

language — Everyday, meaning 1: A language is the words that people use to speak and write, like English, French or Spanish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Language is the way people talk and use words in general.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sign language uses hand signs instead of spoken words.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A computer language is a set of words and rules for telling a computer what to do.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Bad language means rude words.↗ Example: 12 children speak two languages.↗ · The class learns 1 new language.↗ · 15 pupils study French and 10 study German.↗ · How many speak both languages?↗ · In Canada, people speak English and French.↗ · Sam's first language is Spanish.↗ · Our deaf friend taught us some sign language.↗ · His body language showed he was nervous.↗ · Python is a computer language.↗ · Please don't use bad language in class.↗ · Every one speaks these words in his own language.↗ · And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.↗ (Torah GEN.11.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'↗ (Torah GEN.11.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.↗ (Torah GEN.11.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the herald cried aloud: 'To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, (Writings DAN.3.4, JPS 1917)↗ · When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; (Writings PSA.114.1, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; peace be multiplied unto you.↗ (Writings DAN.3.31, JPS 1917)↗

languid — Everyday, meaning 1: Moving slowly and lazily, without energy, often in a pleasant, relaxed way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Weak and tired, without any wish to do things, maybe from heat or illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of weather, days) Slow, warm and calm: «a languid summer afternoon».↗ Example: The cat stretched in a languid way on the warm wall.↗ · It was a languid summer afternoon, and nobody wanted to move.↗ · She gave a languid wave from her deckchair.↗ · The heat made everyone feel languid.↗ · The river flowed slow and languid between the willows.↗ · The bored prince spoke in a languid voice.↗ · The princess took the note and opened it with languid indifference.↗

languidly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a slow, tired or lazy way, without much energy or hurry.↗ Example: The cat stretched languidly.↗ · Uncle Remus sat languidly in the sun.↗ · She waved languidly to us.↗

languish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To grow weak, tired or miserable, as when a person or land suffers for a long time.↗ Example: And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.↗ (Torah GEN.47.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul.↗ (Torah DEU.28.65, JPS 1917)↗ · Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.↗ (Writings PSA.6.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they bow down in black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.↗ (Prophets JER.14.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The fishers also shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.8, JPS 1917)↗

lank — Everyday, meaning 1: Lank means long, thin and limp, without bounce: lank grey hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lank can describe a tall, thin, bony person.↗ Example: The lank grey beggarman walked slowly up the road.↗ · Her hair hung lank and wet.↗ · He was tall and lank, like a bean pole.↗

lanky — Everyday, meaning 1: Lanky means tall and thin in an awkward, long-legged way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lanky hair is long, straight and limp.↗ Example: My lanky cousin can reach the top shelf.↗ · The lanky boy ran with long strides.↗ · Baby giraffes have lanky legs.↗ · He grew lanky over the summer.↗ · She is the lankiest girl in the class.↗ · His hair was lanky after the swim.↗

lantern — Everyday, meaning 1: A lantern is a lamp you can carry, with a light inside a glass or paper case.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A paper lantern is a colourful light hung up for parties and festivals.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A jack-o'-lantern is a pumpkin with a face cut in it and a light inside, made at Halloween.↗ Example: They hang 18 lanterns in the garden.↗ · Each lantern costs $3.↗ · 5 lanterns went out.↗ · The lanterns hang in 3 equal rows.↗ · We took a lantern when we went camping.↗ · At the festival, red paper lanterns glowed in the street.↗ · He carved a jack-o'-lantern with a big smile.↗ · The old sailor held up his lantern in the fog.↗ · Where are my lantern and my goat?↗

lanternfish — Everyday, meaning 1: A lanternfish is a small deep-sea fish with spots on its body that glow with light.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lanternfish are among the most common fish in the world; they swim up near the surface at night to feed and go deep down in the day.↗ Example: The lanternfish has glowing spots along its body.↗ · Lanternfish live deep in the ocean.↗ · At night, lanternfish swim up to eat tiny animals.↗ · Whales and seabirds eat lanternfish.↗ · There may be more lanternfish than any other kind of fish.↗ · We saw a lanternfish in a deep-sea documentary.↗ · The glowing spots help lanternfish recognise each other.↗ · A lanternfish is only about as long as your finger.↗

lanyard — Everyday, meaning 1: A lanyard is a cord or strap worn round the neck to hold an ID card, keys or a whistle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sailing) A lanyard is a short rope on a ship used for tying or holding things.↗ Example: The teacher wore her ID badge on a lanyard.↗ · Visitors must wear a red lanyard.↗ · The coach's whistle hung on a lanyard.↗ · Sailors tied the bucket with a lanyard.↗ · I keep my house key on a lanyard.↗ · Our school trip lanyards had our names on them.↗

lap — Everyday, meaning 1: A lap is one time around a track, field or pool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your lap is the flat top part of your legs when you sit down.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To lap is to drink by licking with the tongue, like a cat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Water laps when it moves gently against something, like waves on a beach.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To lap someone in a race is to get a whole lap ahead of them.↗ Example: One lap of the track is 400 metres.↗ · She ran 6 laps.↗ · How far did she run?↗ · He swims 20 laps a day.↗ · The cat curled up on Grandma's lap.↗ · The dog lapped water from its bowl.↗ · Waves lapped gently against the boat.↗ · On the last lap, Ava moved into first place.↗ · The fastest runner lapped the slowest one.↗ · The whip lay on his lap.↗ · The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.↗ (Writings PRO.16.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.39, JPS 1917)↗

lapdog — Everyday, meaning 1: A lapdog is a small pet dog that likes to sit on people's laps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, insult) A lapdog is a person who always obeys a more powerful person without thinking.↗ Example: Grandma's lapdog sleeps on her knee.↗ · A Pekingese is a typical lapdog.↗ · The lapdog yapped at the postman.↗ · People called the minister the president's lapdog.↗ · My big dog thinks he is a lapdog.↗ · Lapdogs were popular with rich ladies long ago.↗ · He touched the dog too, and it became a little silky lapdog that could nestle in your palm.↗

lapel — Everyday, meaning 1: A lapel is the part of a coat or jacket folded back at the front, next to the neck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A lapel can be a flap that covers the opening of a tent or hut.↗ Example: Dad pinned a flower to his lapel.↗ · Each lapel of the jacket had a button.↗ · The children peeped through the small holes in the lapels of the teepee.↗

lapin — Everyday, meaning 1: (French) «Lapin» is the French word for rabbit; it sounds like «la-PAN» with a nasal end to an English ear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In English, lapin is rabbit fur used for clothes, often dyed to look like more expensive fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cooking, lapin can appear on menus meaning rabbit meat.↗ Example: (French) «Le lapin» means «the rabbit».↗ · (French) «J'ai un lapin blanc» means «I have a white rabbit».↗ · In French class we learned «lapin», «chat» and «chien».↗ · Grandma's old coat has a lapin collar.↗ · The French restaurant served lapin with mustard.↗ · (French) «Le lapin mange une carotte»: the rabbit eats a carrot.↗ · A lapin is not a different animal; it is just rabbit.↗ · Lapin fur is often dyed.↗

lapp — Everyday, meaning 1: (old, may offend) Lapp is an old name for the Sámi, the Indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.↗ Many Sámi find the word «Lapp» offensive and prefer «Sámi».↗ Example: The Sámi were once called Lapps in old books.↗ · Many Sámi prefer not to be called Lapps.↗ · Lapland is in the far north of Finland.↗ · Sámi families herd reindeer across the snow.↗ · Our teacher said to use «Sámi», not «Lapp».↗ · Old maps say «Lapp» but today we say Sámi.↗ · And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.↗ (Prophets JDG.7.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.'↗ (Prophets JDG.7.7, JPS 1917)↗

lapse — Everyday, meaning 1: A small mistake or failure, often caused by not paying attention: a lapse of memory.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A short time that passes between two events: after a lapse of a few minutes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To stop being valid because it was not renewed: my library card lapsed.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To slowly fall into a worse state or into silence: he lapsed into silence.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To stop doing something you used to do, such as a habit or practice.↗ Example: I had a lapse of memory and forgot my PE kit.↗ · One lapse in concentration and the goalkeeper let the ball in.↗ · After a lapse of ten minutes, the bell rang again.↗ · Dad let his gym membership lapse because he never went.↗ · The room lapsed into silence when the head teacher walked in.↗ · It was just a lapse; she is usually very careful.↗ · A lapse in safety at the pool can be dangerous.↗ · His passport had lapsed, so he needed a new one.↗ · One day, after the lapse of many years, he met Angelo, who recognized him.↗ · And after a lapse of years he went down to Ahab to Samaria.↗ (Writings 2CH.18.2, JPS 1917)↗