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.
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Lac
//læk//
Synonyms for "lac" (10 found)
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21 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- لَكّ noun (a resinous substance)
- لُكّ noun (a resinous substance)
Assamese
1 entries- লা noun (a resinous substance)
Finnish
1 entries- lakka noun (a resinous substance)
French
1 entries- laque noun (a resinous substance)
German
1 entries- Lack noun (a resinous substance)
Greek
1 entries- λάκη noun (a resinous substance)
Hebrew
1 entries- לַכָּה noun (a resinous substance)
Hungarian
1 entries- lakk noun (a resinous substance)
Italian
1 entries- lacca noun (a resinous substance)
Japanese
1 entries- ラッカー noun (a resinous substance)
Kannada
1 entries- ಅರಗು noun (a resinous substance)
Korean
1 entries- 래커 noun (a resinous substance)
Persian
1 entries- لاک noun (a resinous substance)
Polish
1 entries- lakier noun (a resinous substance)
Portuguese
1 entries- laca noun (a resinous substance)
Russian
1 entries- лак noun (a resinous substance)
Sanskrit
1 entries- लाक्षा noun (a resinous substance)
Spanish
1 entries- laca noun (a resinous substance)
Telugu
1 entries- లక్క noun (a resinous substance)
Thai
1 entries- ครั่ง noun (a resinous substance)
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[…] 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.
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The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the "lac of islands" and the "thousand islands," are a series of such atolls; […]
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Last night I was driving around in my lac.
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