Lance

Definitions: Lance

Lance

Noun

1. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.

2. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.

3. A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions.

Verb

1. Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way: "Planes lanced towards the shore".

2. Pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight.

3. Open by piercing with a lancet, as of a boil.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

LANCE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Lance

Arms

Pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah; cattle prod; chemical mace.

Attack

Verb: attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge, impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.

Combatant

Mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian.

Contention

Join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; (warfare).

Master

Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Regression

Dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Lance

French (hose, lance, spear, urine), Portuguese (cast, hurl, move, shot, shy, throw, toss), Romanian (dart, javelin, lance, Pike, spear), Spanish (affair, cast, incident, throw).

Lance Corporal Dawson, Private First Class Downey: On the charge of murder, the members find the accused not guilty. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Oh, little song, little dance, Batman's head on a lance (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

That's enough, Lance! (Undercover Brother; writing credit: John Ridley;)

Veto. Lance. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Take this hastily scribbled note, hastily to acting Lance Corporal Bhuta. (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

Lance Maior (1968)

The Lance Percival Show (1965)

Lance at Large (1964)

Broken Lance (1954)

Max lance la mode (1912)

The Monkey Time (performing artist: Major Lance)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Lance, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Into the Mouth of the Cat: The Story of Lance Sijan, Hero of Vietnam (reference)

• Lance Armstrong's Comeback from Cancer: A Scrapbook of the Tour De France Winner's Dramatic Career (reference)

• The Iron Lance (The Celtic Crusades, Book 1) (reference)

• The War of the Lance (Dragonlance Tales Vol. 6) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Free Lance (reference)

• Free Lance Star (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• The Very Best of Major Lance (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Heroes of the Lance (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Gardena 31935-8 Multi-Purpose Spray Lance (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ponsonby had fallen, pierced with seven thrusts of a lance.

Every impure thought, deliberately yielded to, is a keen lance transfixing that sacred and loving heart.

[To RICHARD] Think upon Vaughan, and with guilty fear Let fall thy lance.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Guinea

Le Lynx and La Lance, under the same management, also are connected to the Internet and have web sites. (references)

Guinea

Seven private newspapers (Le Lynx, La Lance, L'Oeil, Le Democrat, L'Independant, La Nouvelle Tribune, and L'Observateur) publish weekly in Conakry, and up to 10 other publications appear sporadically, although they are hampered by technical and financial difficulties stemming from paper and ink taxes. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Court hearings are scheduled to continue in 2002. At his sentencing for the 1998 rape and murder of Krishanthi Kumaraswamy, a Tamil schoolgirl, former Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapakse claimed knowledge of mass graves at Chemmani in Jaffna containing the bodies of up to 400 persons killed by security forces in 1996. The other five defendants convicted in the Kumaraswamy killing later also claimed knowledge of mass graves in the Chemmani area, where they allegedly had buried between 120 and 140 bodies on the orders of their superiors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "lance": Bomb lance ♦ break a lance with ♦ break a lance with smb. ♦ couch one's lance ♦ Free lance ♦ lance a boil ♦ Lance bucket ♦ Lance Corporal ♦ Lance Creek ♦ Lance fish ♦ Lance knight ♦ lance sergeant ♦ Lance snake ♦ safety lance ♦ sand lance ♦ spear or lance ♦ To break a lance ♦ to couch a lance. Additional references.

Beginning with "lance": lance-armed, lance-bombardier, lance-corporal, lance-corporals, lance-knight, lance-length, lance-like, lance-shaped, lance-throwing, lance-wood.

Ending with "lance": fer-de-lance, free-lance.

Containing "lance": boy-lance-corporal.

Albanian

ushtë (assagai, assegai, Pike), shtizë (gad, javelin, Pike, pole, shaft, spear, staff), heshtë (Pike), bisturi (lancet, scalpel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشرط (fleam, lancet, scalpel), ‏حربة (bayonet, spear), ‏رمى (bin, bowl along, cast, cast down, chuck, discard, pitch, pop, project, sling, strike in, sweep, throw, tilt), ‏رمح (javelin, pike, shaft, spear). (various references)

Bulgarian 

улан (uhlan), разрязвам с ланцет, риболовно копие, кавалерийско копие, ланцет (fleam, lancet), пронизвам с пика, пика (spade). (various references)

Chinese 

長矛 , 长矛, 矛 (pike, spear). (various references)

Czech

oštìp (dart, javelin, spear). (various references)

Danish

lanse. (various references)

Dutch

lans (spear). (various references)

Esperanto

lanco (spear). (various references)

Faeroese

spjót (dagger, spear). (various references)

Farsi 

نیزه زدن (Pike), نیزه (Dart, Gad, Gaff, Gig, Harpoon, Shaft, Spear), نیشترزدن , ضربت نیزه . (various references)

Finnish

leikata (carve, clip, crop, cut, cut chiplessly, cut out, cut without stock removal, intersect, operate, pare, prunce, shear, slice, trim), peitsi (pike, spear), keihäs (javelin, spear). (various references)

French

lance. (various references)

Frisian

spear (spear). (various references)

German

Lanze (spear). (various references)

Greek 

λόγχη (bayonet, finger, guard, guard tooth, spear). (various references)

Hebrew 

מור� ית (spear), ל�"קור בח� ית (spear, tilt), אזמל (blade, chisel, lancet), ח� ית (javelin, spear), כי�"ון (bayonet, dart, javelin, spear), כוסלת (lancet), רומח (harpoon, javelin, spear). (various references)

Hungarian

lándzsa (arme blanche, assagai, assegai, Pike, shaft, spear), dárda (dart, javelin, pike, spear). (various references)

Italian

lancia (bang, cannon, dinghy, harpoon, Hypodermic needle used for injecting drugs, jolly boat, launch, lifeboat, nail, needle, nozzle, point, sharp, ship's boat, shot, spear, spike, sprayer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

銛 (brink, circumstances, edge, harpoon, on the occasion of, side, verge), 香車 (spear), 香 (incense), ランゲルハンス島 (athletic-style shirt, bag, inside-the-park home run, isle of Langerhans, knapsack, Lancel, lancer, land, landing, landing bahn, landmark, LANDSAT, landscape, lantern, lanthanum, Lanvin, launch, launcher, laundry, lingerie, lunch, lunch set, luncheon, lunchtime, lunchtime concert, meeting, pensioneer, random, random sampling, rumble seat, runner, runner's high, running, running cost, running home run, running homer, running stock, running vest, run-through, runtime, satchel with back straps, tank top), 槍 (spear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ランス , きょうしゃ (a fanatic, extravagance, insane person, luxury, spear, strong person), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), やり (spear), もり (baby-sitting, forest, harpoon, helping, leak, leakage, nursemaid, serving). (various references)

Korean 

창 (spear, Window, Windows). (various references)

Manx

sleeaney (goad, spear), sleean (goad, spear), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Norwegian

lanse, stikke hull på. (various references)

Papiamen

lansa (spear). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancelay.(various references)

Portuguese

lança (beam, boom, heave, javelin, jib-boom, pole, spear, steel, thill). (various references)

Romanian

lance (dart, javelin, Pike, spear), suliţã (dart, javelin, Pike, spear), strãpunge cu lancea (spear), deschide cu lanţetã. (various references)

Russian 

острога (fish-fork, gaff, gig, harpoon, leister), ланцет (fleam, lancet), пика (pica). (various references)

Scottish

lannsa (a lance), tradh (a lance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

provaliti (break down, break into, burst in, fall in), probosti kopljem (spear), probosti (jab, run through, stab, transfix, transpierce), koplje (assegai, javelin, pike, shaft, spear). (various references)

Spanish

lanza (beam, pole, spear). (various references)

Swedish

spjut (boom attachment, javelin, spear), lans (spear). (various references)

Thai

หลาว. (various references)

Turkish

zıpkın (eelspear, gaff, gig, gun harpoon, harpoon, spear, spear gun), neşterle kesmek, neşter (lancet), mizrak (spear), mızraklamak (spear), mızraklı süvari (Lancer), mızrak (dart, javelin, Pike, shaft, spear). (various references)

Ukranian 

спис (spear), розрізувати ланцетом, ості, ланцет (fleam, lancet), піка, проколювати списом (spear). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trường thương tranh luận với ai, thương, giáo (pike). (various references)

Welsh

pa+r (brace, pair, spear, suit), glaif (glaive, sword), fflaim (fleam). (various references)

Zulu

umkhonto (spear). (various references)

�ukur. (various references)

abies, contis, contos, framea, hasta, hastae, hastam, hastarum, hastas, hastis, lancea, lanceae, lanceam, lancearios, lanceas, lanceato, lanceis, lanceolis, phalarica. (various references)

lancia spezzata. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lance": lanced, lancelet, lancelets, lanceolate, lancer, lancers, lances, lancet, lanceted, lancets, lancewood, lancewoods. (additional references)

Words ending with "lance": ambulance, balance, counterbalance, countersurveillance, freelance, glance, hypervigilance, imbalance, jubilance, microbalance, misbalance, nonchalance, outbalance, overbalance, parlance, petulance, rebalance, resemblance, semblance, sibilance, surveillance, unbalance, valance, vigilance. (additional references)

Words containing "lance": ambulances, balanced, balancer, balancers, balances, counterbalanced, counterbalances, countersurveillances, freelanced, freelancer, freelancers, freelances, glanced, glancer, glancers, glances, hypervigilances, imbalanced, imbalances, jubilances, microbalances, misbalanced, misbalances, nonchalances, oblanceolate, outbalanced, outbalances, overbalanced, overbalances, parlances, petulances, rebalanced, rebalances, resemblances, semblances, sibilances, surveillances, unbalanced, unbalances, valanced, valances, vigilances. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alance, Ance, anec, eance, flance, Gance, Ianke, lacen, lanae, lanc, Lancy, lange, lanka, lankey, Lanre, Lansa, Lanso, lanze, lasce, Lefcoe, lence, Lenche, lenci, Lenoci, Lince, Linco, linke, Llacen, lonc, Loncle, Lynce, Oancea, slance, yance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clean.

-1 letter: acne, alec, cane, clan, elan, lace, lane, lean.

-2 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, lac, lea, nae.

-3 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.

+1 letter: anlace, cancel, candle, cannel, cantle, cental, cleans, cuneal, enlace, glance, inlace, lacune, lanced, lancer, lances, lancet, launce, unlace.

+2 letters: alencon, angelic, anglice, anlaces, balance, blacken, calcine, calends, calzone, canaled, cancels, candela, candled, candler, candles, canella, cannels, cantles, canulae, capelan, capelin, carline, cauline, celadon, cenacle, censual, centals, central, chalone, chancel, channel, charnel, clanged, clanger, clanked, cleaned, cleaner, cleanly, cleanse, cleanup, conceal, congeal, corneal, crankle, decanal, encinal, enclasp, enclave, enlaced, enlaces, galenic, glanced, glancer, glances, inlaced, inlaces, lactean, lactone, lacunae, lacunes, lancers, lancets, larceny, latency, launces, lucarne, lyncean, manacle, melanic, nacelle, nucleal, nuclear, panicle, pelican, planche, reclean, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, slacken, spancel, unclean, unclear, unlaced, unlaces, valance, valence, valency.

+3 letters: acauline, achenial, acrolein, aglycone, alcidine, alencons, alliance, alnicoes, amelcorn, analcime, analcite, analecta, analects, ancillae, anconeal, angelica, anyplace, baculine, balanced, balancer, balances, barnacle, binnacle, bioclean, blackens, blanched, blancher, blanches, cageling, calamine, calcanea, calcanei, calcined, calcines, calendal, calendar, calender, calmness, calycine, calzones, canaille, canalise, canalize, canalled, canaller, canceled, canceler, candelas, candlers, canellas, canfield, cannelon, cannulae, canoodle, canticle, canulate, capelans, capelins, carlines, caruncle, celadons, cenacles, centrals, cephalin, cerulean, chalones, chancels, chandler, channels, charnels, clangers, clansmen, clarence, clarinet, cleaners, cleanest, cleaning, cleansed, cleanser, cleanses, cleanups, clearing, cleating, cleaving, cliental, coinable, colander, colinear, collagen, conceals, conclave, conelrad, conepatl, conflate, congeals, cornmeal, covalent, cracknel, crankled, crankles, cravenly, cyclamen, dulcinea, ecotonal, elegance, elegancy, enclasps, enclaves, enlacing, ethnical, eulachan, eulachon, falconer, falconet, flamenco, glaceing, glancers, inchmeal, irenical, lacewing, laciness, lactones, lacunate, lacunose, laitance, lambency, lancelet, lanceted, lanciers, larcener, launched, launcher, launches, leaching, limacine, lucarnes, lunacies, manacled, manacles, manciple, melanics, meniscal, mycelian, nacelles, necklace, novercal, nucellar, nuclease, nucleate, octangle, panicled, panicles, parlance, pelicans, pentacle, pinnacle, placeman, placemen, placenta, planches, planchet, preclean, recleans, relacing, relaunch, reliance, salicine, salience, saliency, sanicles, scalenus, scalepan, scenical, scrannel, secantly, slackens, spancels, tenacula, tentacle, uncalled, unplaced, unscaled, valanced, valances, valences, valencia, valiance, vernacle.

+4 letters: accentual, acetylene, acidulent, acroleins, affluence, affluency, aglycones, alliances, allogenic, allowance, ambulance, amelcorns, analcimes, analcites, analeptic, analgesic, analgetic, ancestral, anciently, anecdotal, anelastic, angelical, angelicas, anglicise, anglicize, anticline, antiulcer, appliance, archangel, arecoline, arsenical, avalanche, balancers, balconied, balconies, barnacled, barnacles, becalming, benchland, binnacles, blackened, blackener, blackness, blanchers, bleaching, branchlet, cadential, caecilian, cagelings, calamined, calamines, calcaneal, calcaneum, calcaneus, calcimine, calendars, calenders, calendric, calendula, calenture, calumnies, campanile, canailles, canalised, canalises, canalized, canalizes, canallers, cancelers, canceling, cancelled, canceller, candlelit, candlenut, candlepin, canfields, cannelons, canoeable, canoodled, canoodles, cantabile, canticles, cantilena, canulated, canulates, carbuncle, carnelian, caruncles, castellan, cattleman, cattlemen, celandine, celebrant, cellaring, censorial, centraler, centrally, cephalins, certainly, ceruleans, chalcogen, challenge, chameleon, chanceful, chandelle, chandlers, chandlery, changeful, channeled, channeler, chatelain, chelating, chelation, chelonian, chloracne, chlordane, cingulate, cisalpine, cisternal, clangored, clarences, clarinets, clarioned, clavering, cleanable, cleanlier, cleanness, cleansers, cleansing, clearance, clearings, clearness, clearwing, clergyman, clientage, coastline, cobaltine, cochineal, coeternal, cognately, colanders, coleading, collagens, collegian, collinear, colonnade, commensal, concealed, concealer, conclaves, conelrads, conepatls, conferral, conflated, conflates, congealed, congenial, connately, constable, consulate, coralline, cornelian, cornmeals, countable, covalence, covalency, cracknels, crenulate, culminate, cyclamens, cyclopean, dalliance, danceable, decathlon, decennial, declarant, declaring, declawing, demonical, downscale, dulcineas, elegances, emplacing, encapsule, encephala, enchilada, enclasped, enucleate, euclidean, euclidian, eulachans, eulachons, evangelic, exultance, exultancy, falconers, falconets, falconine, flagrance, flamencos, freelance, galenical, genetical, genically, genitalic, genocidal, gerfalcon, gluconate, halfpence, halocline, herculean, identical, imbalance, incapable, inclasped, inculcate, inculpate, incunable, incurable, indexical, inelastic, inexactly, inoculate, interclan, interlace, jubilance, kalanchoe, lacewings, laciniate, lackering, lackeying, laitances, lancelets, lancewood, landscape, larceners, larcenies, larcenist, larcenous, latencies, launchers, lemniscal, lidocaine, luminance, lunchmeat, manciples, masculine, medicinal, melanitic, melanotic, mescaline, militance, necklaces, neuralgic, nucleases, nucleated, nucleates, nucleator, nucleolar, numerical, octangles, olecranon, overclean, parceling, parlances, peccantly, pentacles, percaline, petulance, petulancy, pinnacled, pinnacles, placement, placentae, placental, placentas, planchets, plangency, pleaching, pleasance, pliancies, policeman, porcelain, precancel, precleans, prelaunch, rebalance, recalling, rechannel, recleaned, recoaling, rectangle, relevance, relevancy, reliances, reluctant, replacing, rescaling, salicines, saliences, scalepans, scaliness, scandaled, scannable, sciential, scrannels, sectional, selachian, selectman, semblance, seneschal, sibilance, slackened, slackness, spanceled, spleuchan, technical, tenaculum, tentacled, tentacles, thylacine, tolerance, unactable, unbalance, unclaimed, unclamped, unclasped, uncleaned, uncleaner, uncleanly, unclearer, uncloaked, unethical, unlatched, unlatches, unshackle, valencias, valencies, valiances, vernacles, vicennial, vigilance, volcanoes, vulcanise, vulcanize.

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