Lure can refer to:
- Lure (falconry)
- Lure coursing, a sport for dogs that involves chasing a mechanically operated lure
- Fishing lure
- Lur, an instrument found in northern Europe
- Lure, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France
- Luré, a commune in the Loire department of central France
- Lurë, a municipality in the Dibër district, in Albania
- Lura Mountain, a mountain range in Albania
- Lure (horse)
- Montagne de Lure, a mountain range in France
- Caudal luring, a form of aggressive mimicry in snakes
- temptation
- Lure, a wormlike tongue or forehead appendage found on many anglerfish and alligator snapping turtles
LURE may refer to:
- Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique, a French organization operating SOLEIL synchrotron
Famous quotes containing the word lure:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Your wits can’t thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You’ve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)