Dictionary Definition
laced adj
2 edged or streaked with color; "white blossoms
with purple-laced petals"
3 having alcohol added; "a cup of brandy-laced
coffee"; "he drank too much of the spiked punch" [syn: spiked]
4 trimmed or decorated with lace
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Tainted with something, especially a drug.
- I don't know what it was laced with, but he passed out a minute after drinking that first beer.
Verb
laced- past of lace
- In the context of "usually with "up"": Especially of shoelaces,
intertwined and neatly knotted.
- Are your shoes laced up yet?
- The handkercheif was laced up into a neat little pillow.
- Are your shoes laced up yet?
Extensive Definition
Lace is a lightweight
fabric patterned with open holes.
Lace may refer to:
- Shoelace, a thin cord fitted to shoes to keep the shoes in place
In Music:
- Lace
(band), a Canadian country music trio
- Lace (album), the Canadian country music trio's self-titled debut album
- The Lace (Benjamin Orr album), a 1986 album
- Laced (album), a 1999 album by rap-metal group Reveille
Other uses:
- Lace (film), a 1984 TV mini-series, based on a novel of the same name by Shirley Conran
- Lacing (drugs), where one substance has been secretly mixed or added to another
- Liquid air cycle engine (LACE), a type of spacecraft propulsion engine
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), an art gallery founded in Los Angeles, California in 1978
See also
- Interlace
- Lacing, a process in wheelbuilding, in which spokes are connected between the hub and the rim
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
barred,
braided, cancellated, crossbarred, enlaced, entwined, filigreed, fretted, grated, gridded, handwoven, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, knit, lacelike, lacy, latticelike, loomed, meshed, meshy, mullioned, netlike, netted, netty, plaited, platted, pleached, plexiform, raddled, reticular, reticulate, reticulated, retiform, streaked, striped, textile, twined, woven, wreathed