lance

1. 1.

   move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

   “Planes lanced towards the shore”

   Broadertravel
2. 2.

   pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight

   Broaderpierce
3. 3.

   open by piercing with a lancet

   “lance a boil”

   Broaderopen

Other forms of lance

plural

lances·

past tense

lanced·

present participle

lancing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lance

What does lance mean?

lance means "a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lance?

lance has 1 syllable: lance. In IPA it is /ˈlæns/.

What is another word for lance?

Close synonyms include spear, shaft, spear, gig, fizgig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lance a common word?

lance is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lance?

1 word rhymes with lance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.