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Lac
Definitions
- 1 A province of Chad.
- 2 A surname.
- 3 Initialism of Line of Actual Control. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"Thousands of soldiers have been facing off since April on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), or the de facto border, including at the glacial Pangong Tso lake."
- 4 Initialism of Los Angeles, California. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of Los Angeles Clippers. Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect. countable, uncountable
"At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material."
- 2 Dated spelling of lakh.
"[…] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea."
- 3 Clipping of Cadillac abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"Last night I was driving around in my lac."
- 4 Laceration. colloquial, countable, uncountable
"hand lac"
- 5 Initialism of looked-after children. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
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- 6 Acronym of L-acetylcarnitine (“acetylated L-carnitine”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of licensed acupuncturist. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 8 resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax wordnet
- 9 Abbreviation of leading aircraftman. abbreviation, alt-of, countable
Etymology
From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.
From Cadillac.
From laceration.
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