Loot vs. Lute — What's the Difference?

Private property taken from an enemy in war

A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.

Steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot

A plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front, rather like a halved egg in shape.

Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.

Liquid clay or cement used to seal a joint, coat a crucible, or protect a graft.

Stolen goods or money.

Seal, join, or coat with lute

(Informal) Things of value, such as gifts, received.

A stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.

(Slang) Money.

A substance, such as dried clay or cement, used to pack and seal pipe joints and other connections or coat a porous surface in order to make it tight. Also called luting.

To take goods from (a place) by force or without right, especially in time of war or lawlessness; plunder

To coat, pack, or seal with lute.

To take by force or without right; steal

A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

To take goods by force or through lawless behavior.

Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.

A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.

(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.

Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.

To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.

Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.

To fix or fasten something with lute.

(slang) money.

A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; - called also luting.

Clipping of lieutenant

A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.

(transitive) plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.

A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.

Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.

A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.

The act of plundering.

To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.

Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.

To sound, as a lute.

Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.

To play on a lute, or as on a lute.

Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday.

A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid

Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures.

Chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

Goods or money obtained illegally

Informal terms for money

Take illegally; of intellectual property;

Steal goods; take as spoils;