a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
lance
How to use lance in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for lance.
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Quick take
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of lance gathered in one view.
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for lance.
noun
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
noun
an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
noun
a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
See also: lancet
verb
move quickly, as if by cutting one's way; "Planes lanced towards the shore"
verb
pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
verb
open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"
Example sentences
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Im already working free lance and making twice what they make in college a month, every 2 weeks.
Or perhaps if lance armstrong gave you cycling advice, you'd ignore it because he took performance enhancing drugs?please.
But still more curious was the fact of a lance-head of stone being found in him, not far from the buried iron, the flesh perfectly firm about it.
But later I landed a free-lance job that required writing a classifier that could be applied to real world data, and I soon realized that repeated multiplication of numbers between 0 and 1 sends you to zero too fast for the implementation to actually work. I might have missed it in the code, but I think he's doing the same mistake: you need to normalize or move to logarithms for the estimation of probabilities to work for medium or large datasets.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use lance in a sentence?
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What does lance mean?
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
What part of speech is lance?
lance is commonly used as noun, verb.