Lasso Definition

lăsō, lă-so͝o
lassoed, lassoes, lassoing, lassos
noun
lassoes, lassos
A long rope or leather thong with a sliding noose at one end, used to catch cattle or wild horses.
Webster's New World

(computing) An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
lassoed, lassoing, lassos
To catch with or as with a lasso.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Lasso

Noun

Singular:
lasso
Plural:
lassoes, lassos

Origin of Lasso

  • From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish lazo from Vulgar Latin laceum noose lace

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lasso Sentence Examples

  • Notice none of the costumes come with the gold lasso.

  • You can learn how to ride a horse, sheer a sheep and use a lasso!

  • She was also equipped with fantastical items like the Lasso of Truth.

  • Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down ", have empty rusks for souls.

  • A volume might be written on Orlando di Lasso's art of so crossing the voices as to render possible successions of chords which, on a keyed instrument where such crossing cannot be expressed, would be a horrible series of consecutive fifths; the beauty of the device consisting in the extreme simplicity of the chords, combined with the novelty due to the fact that these chords cannot be produced by any ordinary means without incorrectness.

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Words Starting With

LLALAS

Words Ending With

OSOSSO

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