Antonyms for lance
læns, lɑnslance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. lance

   To send is to cause to go or pass from one place to another, and always in fact or thought away from the agent or agency that controls the act. Send in its most common use involves personal agency without personal presence; according to the adage, "If you want your business done, go; if not, send;" one sends a letter or a bullet, a messenger or a message. In all the derived uses this same idea controls; if one sends a ball into his own heart, the action is away from the directing hand, and he is viewed as the passive recipient of his own act; it is with an approach to personification that we speak of the bow sending the arrow, or the gun the shot. To despatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject. To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within, with no reference to a destination; as, the sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to transmit the crown, or the feud, from generation to generation; to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination.

   Antonyms:
   bring, carry, convey, get, give, hand, hold, keep, receive, retain

   Synonyms:
   cast, dart, delegate, depute, despatch, discharge, dismiss, drive, emit, fling, forward, hurl, impel, launch, project, propel, send, sling, throw, transmit

   Preposition:
   To send from the hand to or toward (rarely at) a mark; send to a friend by a messenger or by mail; send a person into banishment; send a shell among the enemy.

Matched Categories

1. • Implement
   • Move
   • Open
   • Pierce

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. spear, lance, shaftnoun

   a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

   Synonyms:
   gig, light beam, beam, dig, shaft, spear, prick, gibe, beam of light, ray, slam, calamus, cock, tool, peter, shaft of light, barb, fishgig, ray of light, dick, quill, diaphysis, rotating shaft, jibe, putz, lancet, scape, pecker, irradiation, shot, fizgig

2. spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lancenoun

   an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

   Synonyms:
   spear, fishgig, gig, fizgig, lancet, shaft

3. lancet, lanceverb

   a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

   Synonyms:
   lancet arch, gig, fishgig, spear, shaft, lancet, fizgig

4. lanceverb

   move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

   "Planes lanced towards the shore"

5. lanceverb

   pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight

6. lanceverb

   open by piercing with a lancet

   "lance a boil"

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lancenoun

   Synonyms:
   spear, javelin, harpoon

How to use lance in a sentence?

1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   The V for victory has a shape of slingshot. (Le V de la victoire a une forme de lance-pierre.)

2. Jason Maloni:

   I don't expect sponsors to depart in droves as we've seen with Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, at the end of the day, these sponsors are going to have to make a determination : does Tom Brady underscore our brand, do we help ourselves by associating ourselves with Tom Brady brand ? And I think the answer is yes.

3. Fraser McKay:

   If Ryan Lance're burning cash during low oil prices – and the longer that happens, the more pressure on the balance sheet – that means in a recovery scenario, it's likely going to take longer for producers to commit to larger capex budgets.

4. Robert Benchley:

   The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

5. La Russa:

   It was a really good ballgame, lance was a stud again. It was outstanding and the guys kept at it.

How to pronounce lance?

How to say lance in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency