Lure

Definition: Lure

Lure

Noun

1. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.

2. Anything that serves as an enticement.

3. Something used to lure victims into danger.

Verb

1. Provoke someone to do something through promises or persuasion.

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

"Lure" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an ambush cliff".

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

Synonyms: Lure

Deception

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.

Crosswords: Lure

German (lur), Norwegian (con, dupe, humbug).

It isn't some wicked Bolshie plot, is it, George, to lure us to our ultimate destruction (Smiley's People; writing credit: John Hopkins; John Le Carré)

Lure of the Swamp (1957)

Grantland Rice Sportlight No. R1-7: Lure of the Surf (1942)

Lure of the Islands (1942)

The Lure (1933)

Lure of Gold (1932)

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

Books

• The Lure of the Japanese Garden (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bill Dance Outdoors: Lure Tips (reference)

• Wilderness Walleyes: The Lure of Ontario [Babe Winkelman's Fishing Secrets, Volume 3] (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lure (reference)

• The Lure of Beauty (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bass Pro Championship with Lure (reference)

• Black Bass Lure Fishing (reference)

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

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

Fish facsimile used to lure fishermen to Bud N' Mary's Marina. Credit: Fisheries.

Probably photographed in July 1918, when she was inspected and acquired for the U.S. Navy as USS Helvetia (SP-3096). Intended to serve as a decoy to lure German U-boats within torpedo range of U.S. submarines operating nearby, Helvetia was operationally deployed but never encountered the enemy. Credit: NAVY.

The fascinating lure of the ragtime dance. Credit: Library of Congress.

On the east side melodrama flaunts its eternal lure. Credit: Library of Congress.

"The comforts of home" lure tourists into private family tourist rests. Near Cortland, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

The lure of the national parks / Dorothy Waugh. Credit: Library of Congress.

The lure of the movies. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

Although these types of marketing methods have made an important contribution to the expansion of the market in such a short period time, Korean consumers have developed a negative perception that the multi-level network sales approach is somewhat immoral or unethical since it tends to lure people into non-labor earnings. (references)

Although labor and other costs have begun to increase (they are now 15 percent over Monterrey) U.S., Asian and European investment will continue to open new factories, as witnessed by the new Thompson facility, at least on the short and medium term. On the long run, however, neglected environmental problems, inflation caused by a partial dolarization of the border economy and looming infrastructural bottlenecks may dim Baja California’s lure to foreign investors. (references)

Economic History

Argentina

Large retailers and specialized retailers--such as household appliance stores-- print flyers and tabloids to lure consumers into their stores. (references)

Trinidad

The promotion of Trinidad and Tobago as an attractive destination for stay-over guests and cruise ships continues to lure visitors to these shores. (references)

Switzerland

Many of Switzerland's 26 cantons make significant use of fiscal and other incentives to lure companies to establish operations and invest in their jurisdictions. (references)

Political Economy

Pakistan

Yet the lure of America is quite strong. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

The scheme relied on recruiters to locate young women and lure them with money and the promise of a well-paying job abroad. (references)

Colombia

Recruiters reportedly loiter outside high schools, shopping malls, and parks to lure adolescents into accepting phantom jobs abroad. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lure": fish lure ♦ fisherman's lure ♦ Lake Lure ♦ lure and kill technique ♦ lure away ♦ lure of the footlights ♦ lure on ♦ lure out ♦ lure smb. away ♦ spoon lure. Additional references.

Afrikaans

lok (attract, decoy). (various references)

Albanian

tundoj, tërheqje (affinity, allurement, appeal, appetence, appetency, attraction, attractiveness, crush, draw, drawing, enchantment, enticement, haul, jerk, magnetization, pull, pullback, recall, recession, recoil, retirement, retraction, retreat, revocation, strain, stretch, tow, traction, tug, withdrawal), tërheq (allure, appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), karrem (bait, carrot, decoy, troll, worm), joshë (allure, appeal, bewitchment, charm, glamor, glamour, pull, smell), josh me karrem, josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dangle, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure away, seduce, tempt, vamp, wile). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طعم للسمك (decoy), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏اغراء, ‏إغواء (enticement, seduction, temptation, temptress), ‏إسترد بالإغراء, ‏ريش البازيار حزمة ريش مشدود, ‏شرك طعم. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съблазън (allurement, seduction, temptation), съблазнявам (allure, entice, inveigle, seduce, tempt, vamp), стръв (bait), чар (allure, allurement, attraction, bewitchment, charm, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, magic, magnetism, spell, wizardry), обаяние (charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, magic), примамка (allurement, carrot, decoy, draw, enticement, inducement, snare), примамвам (coax, decoy, entice, hold forth, inveigle, snare, tempt, train, wile), помамвам (entice, tempt). (various references)

Chinese 

诱剂. (various references)

Czech

lákat (allure, beckon, draw, entice, tempt, woo), pokušení (temptation), návnada (bait, decoy), kouzlo (charm, magic, romance, savor, spell, trick, witchery). (various references)

Danish

lokkefloejte (decoy call). (various references)

Dutch

lokken (attract, decoy). (various references)

Esperanto

logi (attract, decoy). (various references)

Faeroese

lokka (attract, decoy), draga at sær (attract, decoy). (various references)

Farsi 

فریفتن (Bewitch, Captivate, Charm, Deceive, Decoy, Doodle, Enchant, Entice, Hustle, Intrigue, Inveigle, Jilt, Poop, Seduce, Skunk, Tempt, Wile), فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Deception, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), گول زنک (Trinket), وسیله تطمیع (Decoy), تطمیع (Entice), اغواکردن (Crimp, Entice, Seduce, Tempt, Wile), بوسیله تطمیع بدام انداختن , بطمع طعمه یاسودی گرفتارکردن . (various references)

Finnish

viekoitella (entice), viehe, houkutus (allurement, temptation), houkutella (allure, attract, coax, decoy, entice, inveigle, persuade, tempt). (various references)

French

leurre. (various references)

German

ködern (attract, bait, baits, decoy, entice, tempt, to decoy), locken (allure, attract, cluck, curl, curls, decoy, entice, tempt, to attract, to cluck, to entice, tresses, woo), köder (bait, decoy). (various references)

Greek 

δελεάζω (allure, bait, blarney, cajole, captivate, decoy, ensnare, entice, seduce, tempt). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתות (decoy, gull, inveigle, lead on, solicit, suborn, tempt), פתיון (bait, decoy, inducement), פתוי (enticement, enticing, flat, persuasion, seduction, temptation). (various references)

Hungarian

csalétek (bait, decoy, trains), vonzerő (appeal, blandishments, charm, draw, enticement, fascination, seduction), varázs (allurement, appeal, attraction, blandishments, charisma, enchantment, enthralment, fascination, seduction, spell), sólyomcsalogató, csábítás (allurement, attraction, bait, coaxing, debauchery, enticement, seduction, temptation), csáb. (various references)

Indonesian

pikatan, memikat (absorb, attract, captivate, enamour), eret (drag, snare). (various references)

Italian

richiamo (call, catchword, decoy, hollo, holloa, recall, retrieval), adescamento (bait, enticement, solicitation, soliciting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誘致 (attraction, invitation), 誘惑 (allurement, temptation), 魅惑 (attraction, captivation, charm, fascination). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おとり (decoy), ルアー , �"うじ (affairs after one's death, alley, bait, construction work, curious, decoy, edict, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, malt, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast), ゆうわくもの, ゆうわく (allurement, temptation), ゆうち (attraction, invitation), けばり (fly), みわく (attraction, captivation, charm, fascination). (various references)

Korean 

� 혹 (Baiting, Luring, Seducing, temptation, tempting). (various references)

Manx

tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, drawing, haul, haulage, heave, hitch, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, trawl, tug, tugging, yank), miolaghey (entice, induce, tempt), miolagh (enticing, inducement, seducing, temptation, tempting), cleaynaghey (addict, allure, corrupt, decoy, entice, gravitate, induce, inveigle, seduce), cleayn (attraction, bent, enticement, inclination, inducement, seduction), breigey (allure, beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle), bite (bait, wick). (various references)

Norwegian

lokkemat (bait), lokke (entice). (various references)

Pig Latin

urelay.(various references)

Portuguese

seduzir (allure, attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-away, drive, enchant, entice, enticing, gull, inveigle, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile), engodar (attract, decoy, drain-away, entice, lime, wile), chamariz (catch, decoy, draw, inveiglement), atrair (allure, appeal, attract, bait, charm, court, decoy, drain-away, draw, drew, enlist, entice, fascinate, inveigle, invite, magnetize, rope, to attract, trepan). (various references)

Romanian

ispiti (allure, appeal, attract, bait, carry away, decoy, entice, examine, inveigle, invite, tax, tempt, torture, try). (various references)

Russian 

соблазнять (entice, lute, seduce, tempt), соблазн (enticement, inveiglement, seduction, temptation), наживка (bait, gentle, ledger-bait), завлекать (decoy, entice, lead on), приманка (allurement, bait, decoy, decoy duck, draw, enticement, jig), приманивать (decoy), искушать соблазн, искушать (tempt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privlačnost (attraction, attractiveness, prettiness, pull), privlačiti (attract), namamiti (decoy, entice, gain on, trap), mamiti (allure, entice, lead on), mamac (allure, bait, decoy, gentle, spoon bait, stalking horse, troll), draž (cantrip, charm, grace, savor, savour). (various references)

Spanish

señuelo (bait, decoy, stool pigeon), aliciente (bait, incentive, temptation). (various references)

Swedish

lockelse (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, blandishment, enticement, fascination, inveiglement, invitation, temptation), locka (allure, appeal to, bait, beguile, call, curl, entice, entire, inveigle, lead on, tantalise, tantalize, tempt, wheedle, woo). (various references)

Thai

เหยื่อล่อ (เหยื่อตกปลา), พลังหรือแรง�"ึง�"ู�", สิ่งล่อ, ล่อใจ. (various references)

Turkish

yemlemek (bait, fodder, hold out a carrot to smb.), yem (bait, decoy, draw, fodder, food, forage, prey, provender, silage), tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, net, noose, snare, springe, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, magnetize, prepossess, wile), cazibe (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), çığırtkan (decoy bird, runner, tout). (various references)

Ukrainian

спокуса (allure, allurement, bait, enticement, honeypot, seducement, seduction, temptation), спокушати (allure, attempt, beguile, court, debauch, decoy, deprave, entice, inveigle, offend, seduce), наживка (bait, fly, kill-devil, squid), приваблювати (appeal, attract, captivate, commend, court, fetch, incline, magnetize, pull, take, tempt), приманювати (decoy), приманка (attraction). (various references)

delectabar, delectaberis, delectabit, delectabitur, delectabor, delectabunt, delectabuntur, delectamini, delectans, delectare, delectari, delectaris, delectasti, delectat, delectata, delectati, delectatur, delectatus, delectaverunt, delectentur, delecteris, delicias. (various references)

loirre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lure": lured, lurer, lurers, lures. (additional references)

Words ending with "lure": allure, chevelure, colure, doublure, failure, gyplure, soilure, tubulure, velure. (additional references)

Words containing "lure": allured, allurement, allurements, allurer, allurers, allures, chevelures, colures, doublures, failures, gyplures, soilures, sulfonylurea, sulfonylureas, tubulures, velured, velures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clure, elure, Iluro, kure, lareh, larem, larey, laro, lauri, lero, leure, leurve, liret, liri, lirj, liro, liru, lirue, loer, lora, lorce, loree, lorex, lorq, lorre, lorz, loura, loure, Lovro, lra, lreg, lru, lrus, lubr, lubra, lude, lue, Luer, luere, lufe, lufen, luge, lugee, luie, luje, lule, lume, lupe, lur, lura, lurb, lurc, lurce, lurd, lurel, lurer, lurex, Lurg, lurge, lurgee, luri, luric, lurie, lurit, lurje, lurke, Lurleen, lurn, lurp, lurra, lurre, lurs, lurv, lurve, lury, lurze, luve, luze, luzem, lwra, plure, qure, Uluru, urre. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rule.

-1 letter: leu, rue.

-2 letters: el, er, re.

+1 letter: bluer, cruel, gluer, gruel, jurel, lemur, lucre, luger, lured, lurer, lures, puler, ruble, ruled, ruler, rules, ulcer, ureal.

+2 letters: allure, aulder, bugler, bulger, burble, burgle, burled, burler, burley, butler, colure, culler, culver, curdle, curled, curler, curlew, curule, cutler, dueler, duller, earful, eluder, ferula, ferule, fleury, fluter, fouler, fueler, fuller, furled, furler, gluers, gluier, gruels, gulper, gurgle, haleru, hauler, huller, hurdle, hurled, hurler, hurley, hurtle, ireful, jurels, lauder, laurae, laurel, lemurs, ligure, louder, loured, louver, louvre, lubber, lucern, lucres, lugers, lugger, lumber, lumper, lunger, lunier, lunker, lurers, lurked, lurker, lusher, luster, lustre, mauler, muller, neural, nurled, pleura, pulers, puller, pulper, pulser, purely, purfle, purled, purple, reflux, refuel, reglue, reguli, reluct, relume, result, rouble, rubble, rubles, ruckle, ruddle, rudely, rueful, ruffle, rulers, rulier, rumble, rumple, rundle, runkle, runlet, runnel, rustle, rutile, saurel, sulker, surely, sutler, turtle, uglier, ulcers, ulster, unreal, unreel, valuer, velour, velure, wurzel.