📖 L — The English dictionary · page 6

lapsed — Everyday, meaning 1: If something has lapsed, it has come to an end because it was not renewed in time, like a membership or passport.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A lapsed member or believer is one who used to belong or believe but no longer does.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lapsed into something means slowly slipped into a state: lapsed into silence.↗ Example: My library membership lapsed because I forgot to renew it.↗ · Her passport had lapsed, so she couldn't travel.↗ · The class lapsed into silence when the head walked in.↗ · He is a lapsed football fan who no longer watches.↗ · The insurance lapsed when the payments stopped.↗ · The patient lapsed into sleep.↗

laptop — Everyday, meaning 1: A small computer that you can carry, with a screen and keyboard joined together that fold shut.↗ Example: We used laptops in class to research volcanoes.↗ · Close the laptop before you carry it.↗ · Keep your drink away from the laptop.↗ · My laptop battery is low; I need to charge it.↗ · Dad works on his laptop at the kitchen table.↗ · Each table shared one laptop.↗ · Don't leave a laptop on your bed or lap for long — it gets hot.↗ · Log out of the school laptop when you finish.↗

larch — Everyday, meaning 1: A larch is a tall cone-bearing tree with soft needles that turn yellow and fall off in autumn.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Larch is the strong wood of this tree, used for fences, boats and buildings.↗ Example: The larch turns golden yellow in autumn.↗ · Unlike a pine, a larch drops its needles in winter.↗ · The garden shed is built of larch.↗ · We found small round larch cones on the path.↗ · Larch forests cover huge areas of Siberia.↗ · The larch needles grow in little bunches.↗ · Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; thy deck have they made of ivory inlaid in larch, from the isles of the Kittites.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.6, JPS 1917)↗ · I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together; (Prophets ISA.41.19, JPS 1917)↗ · The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious.↗ (Prophets ISA.60.13, JPS 1917)↗

lard — Everyday, meaning 1: Lard is the white fat from a pig, used in cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To lard is to push small strips of fat into meat before cooking it, or to fill food with extra things.↗ Example: Mum fried the potatoes in lard.↗ · The cook larded the roast with strips of bacon.↗ · The witch larded the pudding with glow-worms.↗

larder — Everyday, meaning 1: A larder is a cool room or large cupboard in a house where food is kept, especially in older homes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can mean the store of food a person or family has.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Some animals have a larder: squirrels and shrikes store food to eat later.↗ Example: Mum keeps the jam in the larder.↗ · The old cottage had a cold stone larder.↗ · The mice found their way into the larder.↗ · Our larder is empty, we need to go shopping.↗ · Squirrels make a larder of nuts for the winter.↗ · The shrike stores insects on thorns as a larder.↗ · I raided the larder for a midnight snack.↗ · In the story, the larder was full of pies.↗ · My larder is a regular horn of plenty.↗

large — Everyday, meaning 1: Large means big in size: a large house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Large means big in number or amount: a large crowd, a large sum of money.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Large is a size of clothes, drinks or food, bigger than medium.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: At large means free and not caught.↗ e.g. The tiger is still at large.↗ Example: A large pizza costs 12 dollars.↗ · Which number is the largest?↗ · The large box holds 24 apples, the small one 12.↗ · She bought 2 large drinks.↗ · An elephant is a very large animal.↗ · A large crowd watched the parade.↗ · Jupiter is the largest planet.↗ · Can I have this T-shirt in large?↗ · The escaped parrot is still at large.↗ · The dragon shook his large purple head.↗ · Issachar is a large-boned ass, couching down between the sheep-folds.↗ (Torah GEN.49.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.↗ (Torah GEN.30.43, JPS 1917)↗ · For the LORD will judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants; when He seeth that their stay is gone, and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.↗ (Torah DEU.32.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?↗ (Prophets JER.2.31, JPS 1917)↗ · He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.↗ (Writings PSA.80.6, JPS 1917)↗

largely — Everyday, meaning 1: Largely means mostly or mainly, to a great extent but not completely.↗ Example: The island is largely covered with forest.↗ · Our class is largely made up of children who walk to school.↗ · The match was cancelled, largely because of the rain.↗ · Whales eat largely krill and small fish.↗ · The old castle is now largely ruined.↗ · His success was largely due to hard work.↗ · The improvement is not due to the dress alone, but largely to the beautifying effects of the bath.↗

largeness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Being large or great in size.↗ Example: And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.↗ (Prophets 1KI.5.9, JPS 1917)↗

larger — Everyday, meaning 1: Larger means bigger than another one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A larger number is one that is more than another number.↗ Example: Which number is larger, 47 or 74?↗ · The larger box holds 12 more.↗ · The larger piece is twice the smaller.↗ · A number is 5 larger than 9.↗ · Jupiter is larger than the Earth.↗ · Can I have a larger size, please?↗ · An elephant is larger than a horse.↗ · The larger the group, the longer it takes to choose.↗ · Every day it grew larger and more beautiful.↗

lark — Everyday, meaning 1: A lark is a small brown songbird that sings while flying high, such as the skylark.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) A lark is something done for fun or as a joke.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, informal) To lark about or lark around is to play in a silly, noisy way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, UK) «This X lark» means a kind of activity, said in a slightly jokey or fed-up way.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A lark can also be a person who is cheerful, fond of fun and mischief.↗ Example: A skylark sang high above the field.↗ · We dressed up as pirates just for a lark.↗ · Stop larking about and line up!↗ · Grandma is up with the lark every morning.↗ · I'm a lark, not a night owl — I like mornings.↗ · «This homework lark is hard work,» said Dad.↗ · The boys were larking around in the pool.↗ · I used to be called a complete lark.↗

larva — Everyday, meaning 1: The young form of an insect (and some other animals, like frogs and fish) after it hatches from the egg and before it changes into an adult; it often looks like a worm, such as a caterpillar or a maggot.↗ Example: A caterpillar is the larva of a butterfly.↗ · The larva hatched from a tiny egg.↗ · Mosquito larvae live in still water.↗ · The larva eats and grows before it becomes a pupa.↗ · Maggots are the larvae of flies.↗ · We drew the life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult.↗ · Ladybird larvae look like tiny spiky crocodiles.↗

larval — Everyday, meaning 1: Larval means to do with a larva, the young stage of an insect, frog or other animal before it changes into its adult form.↗ Example: A caterpillar is the larval stage of a butterfly.↗ · The larval stage of a frog is called a tadpole.↗ · Mosquito larvae live in water during their larval stage.↗ · Larval beetles are often called grubs.↗ · Some insects spend years in their larval form.↗ · We drew the egg, larval, pupal and adult stages.↗

larynx — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The voice box: the part at the top of the windpipe in the throat, which holds the vocal cords that vibrate to make sounds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It also helps stop food going into the lungs when you swallow.↗ Example: The larynx is also called the voice box.↗ · Your vocal cords are inside your larynx.↗ · When you speak, air from your lungs makes the vocal cords in your larynx vibrate.↗ · The Adam's apple is the front of the larynx.↗ · She had laryngitis and could only whisper.↗ · Put your fingers on your throat and feel your larynx buzz when you hum.↗ · The larynx sits on top of the windpipe.↗

lasagne — Everyday, meaning 1: Lasagne is an Italian dish made of flat sheets of pasta in layers with meat or vegetable sauce and cheese, baked in an oven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lasagne is also the name of the wide flat pasta sheets themselves.↗ Example: We had lasagne for tea on Friday.↗ · Mum made a vegetable lasagne with spinach and cheese.↗ · Grandad cut the lasagne into eight equal pieces.↗ · Rock layers are stacked like a lasagne, with the oldest at the bottom.↗ · The lasagne was so hot that the cheese burnt my tongue.↗ · Our neighbours brought round a lasagne when the baby was born.↗ · You need nine lasagne sheets for three layers.↗

laser — Everyday, meaning 1: A machine that makes a very narrow, strong beam of light of one colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The beam itself.↗ Example: The shop scanner uses a laser to read barcodes.↗ · The teacher pointed at the screen with a laser pointer.↗ · Never shine a laser in anyone's eyes.↗ · Doctors can fix eyes with lasers.↗ · We played laser tag at the party.↗ · A laser beam is very straight and narrow.↗

lash — Everyday, meaning 1: An eyelash: one of the small hairs growing on the edge of your eyelid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hit with a whip, or the thin part of a whip.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To hit hard and repeatedly, like rain or waves: «Rain lashed the windows».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To tie things tightly with rope.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (lash out) To suddenly attack or shout at someone in anger.↗ Example: An eyelash fell onto my cheek.↗ · Rain lashed against the window all night.↗ · The sailors lashed the boxes to the deck.↗ · Waves lashed the rocks during the storm.↗ · When he was upset, he lashed out at his friends.↗ · The horse's tail lashed from side to side.↗ · Long lashes protect a camel's eyes from sand.↗

lass — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, Scotland and northern England) A lass is a girl or young woman.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Lass is used as a friendly way to talk to a girl or woman, as in Thanks, lass.↗ Example: She's a clever lass.↗ (UK dialect)↗ · Thanks, lass, that's very kind.↗ · The lads and lasses went to the dance.↗ · A bonny lass sang by the river.↗ (Scots)↗ · Our Sarah's a lovely lass.↗ (northern England)↗ · Come here, lass, and tell me what happened.↗ · And the lass whispered in his ear:↗

lassie — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scotland, Northern England, informal) A lassie is a girl or young woman.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Lassie is a famous brave collie dog in books, films and TV.↗ Example: The wee lassie was playing on the beach (Scotland).↗ · «Come here, lassie!» called her granny.↗ · Lassie the collie always saves the day.↗ · The laddies and lassies danced at the ceilidh.↗ · She's a fine lassie, that one.↗

last — Everyday, meaning 1: Last means coming at the end, after all the others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Last means the one just before this one, as in «last week».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To last is to go on for a time, or to stay good or useful.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «At last» means finally, after a long wait.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Last» is used for being worst: «came dead last»; «last but not least» introduces the final one with respect.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual) «Last thing I need» means I really do not want it; «famous last words» means that will go wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (euphemism) «Breathed his last» and «his last days» gently speak of dying.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) Exams say «final», «ultimate», «terminal», «preceding» (the one before), «previous», «endure» and «the duration».↗ Example: Last week she sold 40 cakes.↗ · This week she sold 15 more than last week.↗ · The food will last 5 days.↗ · Z is the last letter of the alphabet.↗ · He came last in the race.↗ · The film lasted two hours.↗ · At last, the rain stopped.↗ · Who ate the last cookie?↗ · Last one to the gate is a rotten egg!↗ · Last chance: give back my 2 dollars or I'm telling.↗ · In the preceding week, 40 units were sold; in the present week, 15 units in excess thereof.↗ Compute the present week's sales.↗ · Grandma spent her last days at home with us.↗ · Then at last he spoke passionately.↗ · This last paragraph is generally considered to be less ancient than the remainder of the treatise, and by another author.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · And Samekh-Tzadi-Resh-Shin, between the teeth and tongue, lain down and flattened.↗ [note 1: These last two words, שכובה ושטותה, are difficult to identify.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · This is the number of the Paths or Ways of Wisdom, which are added as a supplement.↗ 32 is written in Hebrew by LB, Lamed and Beth, and these are the last and first letters of the Pentateuch.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.↗ (Writings PRO.23.32, JPS 1917)↗ · I, the LORD, who am the first, and with the last am the same.↗ (Prophets ISA.41.4, JPS 1917)↗ · He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become master at the last.↗ (Writings PRO.29.21, JPS 1917)↗