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How to pronounce lance in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lancet
Type of surgical knife
Type Words
Synonyms fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear
Type of implement
Has types harpoon, leister
Type Words
Synonyms shaft, spear
Type of weapon system, weapon, arm
Has types trident, assagai, javelin, assegai
Type Words
Type of go, locomote, move, travel


Planes lanced towards the shore.
Type Words
Type of open, open up


lance a boil.
Type Words
Type of pierce, thrust

Examples of lance

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Lance Goulbourne has four points over the last two games since his ankle sprain.
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Lance and Francesca Miller, 56 Flagler Drive, single-family residence, $300,000.
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Lance, as the Summit wrestling records will show for some time, is not everyone.
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Lance hopes he did a good job of channeling Jennings'dedication and work habits.
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Lance LeComb, spokesman for MSD, could not provide a total cost for the project.
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Lance Berkman is 3 for 23 off him, Carlos Lee 6 for 29, a combined .173 average.
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Lance Palmer, at 149, lost 6-2 to top seed Brent Metcalf of Iowa in a semifinal.
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Shirley Caudill of London is a free-lance writer and former newspaper publisher.
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Lance Berkman singled to start the second and scored on Mark Loretta's base hit.
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  • Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"
  • Spear: a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
  • Pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
  • Spear: an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
  • Lancet: a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
  • Lance is a catchall term for a variety of different pole weapons based on the spear. The name is derived from lancea, Roman auxiliaries' javelin, although according to the OED, the word may be of Iberian origin. Also compare longche, a Greek term for lance.
  • Lance! is one of the most important daily sports newspapers in Brazil, and its first edition was published in 1997. Its headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro, and they print regional versions for the some of the other Brazilian States.
  • 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
  • u0141au0144ce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kornowac, within Racibu00F3rz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1u00A0mi) north-east of Kornowac, 8u00A0km (5u00A0mi) east of Racibu00F3rz, and 52u00A0km (32u00A0mi) west of the regional capital Katowice.