lime – English noun declension

English noun forms of lime

Noun: lime
Singularlime
Plurallimes

Sample Sentences

  • Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations. [1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 149:]
  • Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • Like the lime which foolish birds are caught with. [1835, William Wordsworth, They called Thee Merry England, in old time [first line of unnamed poem]:]
  • Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act. [1980, Peter Evans, Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask, page 30:]
  • Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly. [2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 121:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm (“glue”), German Leim (“glue”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish lim (“glue”), Faroese and Icelandic lím (“glue”), Latin limus (“mud”). See: Middle English Nouns 'lyme', Dutch Nouns 'lijm', German Nouns 'Leim', Latin Nouns 'limus'.

Verbs referencing "lime"

German Nouns Leim, Danish Nouns lime, Finnish Nouns lime, Italian Nouns lime, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns lime, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns lime, Swedish Nouns lime, Finnish Nouns laimi, Russian Nouns лайм, Ukrainian Nouns лайм, English Nouns makrut lime.