[
UK
/lˈɑːns/
]
[ US /ˈɫæns/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæns/ ]
VERB
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move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
Planes lanced towards the shore - pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
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open by piercing with a lancet
lance a boil
NOUN
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
How To Use lance In A Sentence
- The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
- Our economy is unbalanced, money is in excess supply, and its circulation is completely divorced from the circulation of goods. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
- Striking that balance between old and new will always be difficult, but after a few numbers here, memories of their old bandmaster begin to fade.
- Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
- Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
- The art world can be a profoundly unfriendly and unbalanced place. Times, Sunday Times
- The imbalance in the number of girls and boys of marriageable age is not the only cause of these social changes, and it will not persist for long.
- Kerry have a better balance all round; better team and better subs.
- Your clock has a floating balance mechanism.
- She sipped from her glass and glanced sideways at me. Times, Sunday Times