Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - lance
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(lances, lancing, lanced) 1. If a boil on someone’s body is lanced, a small cut is made in it so that the liquid inside comes out. (MEDICAL) It is a painful experience having the boil lanced. VERB: usu passive, have n V-ed, also be V-ed 2. A lance is a long spear used in former times by soldiers on horseback. ...the clang of lances striking armour. N-COUNT LAND (lands, landing, landed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Land is an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building. Good agricultural land is in short supply. ...160 acres of land. ...a small piece of grazing land. N-UNCOUNT 2. You can refer to an area of land which someone owns as their land or their lands. Their home is on his father’s land... His lands were poorly farmed. N-COUNT: poss N 3. If you talk about the land, you mean farming and the way of life in farming areas, in contrast to life in the cities. Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times. N-SING: the N 4. Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air. It isn’t clear whether the plane went down over land or sea. ...a stretch of sandy beach that was almost inaccessible from the land. N-UNCOUNT: also the N 5. You can use land to refer to a country in a poetic or emotional way. (LITERARY) ...America, land of opportunity. N-COUNT: with supp 6. When someone or something lands, they come down to the ground after moving through the air or falling. Three mortar shells had landed close to a crowd of people. VERB: V 7. When someone lands a plane, ship, or spacecraft, or when it lands, it arrives somewhere after a journey. The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours... The crew finally landed the plane on its belly on the soft part of the runway. VERB: V, V n 8. To land goods somewhere means to unload them there at the end of a journey, especially by ship. (mainly BRIT) The vessels will have...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~a Date: 14th century 1. a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry 2. any of various sharp objects suggestive of a ~: as a. ~t b. a spear used for killing whales or fish 3. ~r 1b II. verb (~d; lancing) Etymology: Middle English launcen, from Anglo-French ~r, from Late Latin ~are, from Latin ~a Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to pierce with or as if with a ~ b. to open with or as if with a ~t ~ a boil 2. to throw forward ; hurl intransitive verb to move forward quickly ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, used by a horseman in charging. b a similar weapon used for spearing a fish, killing a harpooned whale, etc. 2 a metal pipe supplying oxygen to burn metal. 3 = LANCER. --v.tr. 1 Surgery prick or cut open with a lancet. 2 pierce with a lance. 3 poet. fling; launch. Phrases and idioms break a lance (usu. foll. by for, with) argue. lance-bombardier a rank in the Royal Artillery corresponding to lance-corporal in the infantry. lance-corporal the lowest rank of NCO in the Army. lance-jack Brit. sl. a lance-corporal or lance-bombardier. lance-sergeant a corporal acting as sergeant. lance-snake = FER DE LANCE. Etymology: ME f. OF lancier f. L lancea: lance-corporal on analogy of obs. lancepesade lowest grade of NCO ult. f. It. lancia spezzata broken lance ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) пика; копье 2) фурма (конвертера) 3) трубка (для вдувания воздуха или газа) - air lance - coal-injection lance - fuel injection lance - mechanically inserted lance - multihole lance - oxygen lance - primary lance - roof lance - secondary lance - soot lance - spray lance - steam lance - water lance - water-cooled lance LANCE сокр. от local-area network controller for Ethernet контроллер для локальных сетей типа Ethernet ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский строительный словарь
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ланцет - lance hoist - oxygen lance - roof lance - secondary lance - straight-type lance - water-cooled lance ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. пика, копье 2. ист. воин с копьем; копьеносец, копейщик 3. острога 4. ланцет 5. обыкн. pl. улан Id: to break a lance with smb. —- сражаться на турнире с кем-л; ломать копья, спорить с жаром с кем-л. 6. пронзать пикой, копьем 7. бросаться в атаку 8. мед. вскрывать ланцетом to lance an abscess —- вскрыть нарыв ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) пика; копье 2) острога 3) ланцет 4) usu. pl. улан Syn: see spear 2. v. 1) пронзать пикой, копьем 2) poet. бросаться в атаку 3) med. вскрывать ланцетом ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 12c., from O.Fr. lance, from L. lancea "light spear," possibly of Celtic origin. Lance corporal is from obsolete lancepesade "officer of lowest rank," from O.It. lancia spezzata "old soldier," lit. "broken lance." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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