Lake vs. Mere

Lakenoun

A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

Lakenoun

A large, landlocked stretch of water.

Lakenoun

A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A pit, or ditch

Lakenoun

(obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.

Lakenoun

(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Lakenoun

In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Lakeverb

(obsolete) To present an offering.

Lakeverb

To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Lakeverb

To make lake-red.

Lakenoun

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

Lakenoun

A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

Lakenoun

A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Lakeverb

To play; to sport.

Lakenoun

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

Lakenoun

any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

Lakenoun

a large area of water surrounded by land

Lakenoun

the Lake District.

Lakenoun

a pool of liquid

Lakenoun

a large surplus of a liquid commodity

Lakenoun

an insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.

Lakenoun

a purplish-red pigment made in the same way as lake, originally one obtained from lac.

Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although like the much larger oceans, they form part of Earth's water cycle.

Merenoun

A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond. More specifically, it can refer to a lake that is broad in relation to its depth. Also included in place names such as Windermere.

Merenoun

Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.

Merenoun

A Maori war-club.

Mereverb

To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.

Mereverb

To set divisions and bounds.

Mereverb

(cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.

Mereadjective

(obsolete) Famous.

Mereadjective

(obsolete) Pure, unalloyed .

Mereadjective

(obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright .

Mereadjective

Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.

Merenoun

A pool or lake.

Merenoun

A boundary.

Merenoun

A mare.

Mereverb

To divide, limit, or bound.

Mereadjective

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

Mereadjective

Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

Merenoun

a small pond of standing water

Mereadjective

being nothing more than specified;

Mereadjective

apart from anything else; without additions or modifications;