Tra từ lance - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lance corporal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.
▪ The lance is represented by a nerve which has every likeness to the shape of that instrument.
▪ The impact of this slavering beast on an enemy formation is just as effective as that of a Knight with a lance.
▪ The two settled their lances, rode at each other, and the pagan knight was slain.
▪ Then he thrust his lance into the vulnerable spot and killed the warrior.
▪ They are armoured in shining silver and armed with white lances with diamond-hard tips which glitter like stars.
▪ Undesirable removal of lubricants may occur in machinery and hazards may arise in the use of steam lances.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A doctor carefully lanced the boil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even in my mind I found it extremely unwieldy trying to lance one - let alone 100,000 - from a charging steed.
▪ He was then lanced with a spear before his trial got under way, by the order of Emperor Maximilian.
▪ I wince myself, lanced with regret at the foolish vanity that led me to mention this prospect.
▪ Owners ask why abscesses can not be lanced early to help relieve pressure.
▪ Salina arrived at the clinic with a grossly swollen foot which had to be lanced on the spot.
▪ Then his arm was bathed and the wound was lanced with a knife and bathed again.

lance

I. lance¹ /lɑːns $ læns/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : Latin lancea]
a long thin pointed weapon that was used in the past by soldiers riding on horses

II. lance² verb [TRANSITIVE]
to cut a small hole in someone’s flesh with a sharp instrument to let out pus (=yellow liquid produced by infection)