Something is late if it happens after you expect it to happen. If you are late for something, you get there after it starts.
The woman in the photo is running late for work.
Later is a word that means at a time after now. It can describe something that happens in the future.
Later is often used in daily talks, schedules, and instructions to show the order of events.
Latex is the milky sap of many different plants. One tree in particular, the Para rubber tree, is used for commercially producing rubber.
Rubber is used in a huge variety of ways. It is used to make rubber bands, erasers, elastic that you find in the waistband of clothes, drive belts inside a car engine, gumboots and the biggest use is tyres.
A latrine is a toilet or anything that can be used as a toilet, such as a hole in the ground.
A lattice is made from strips of a material like wood crossing over itself, leaving gaps between the strips. The gaps are usually square or diamond shaped, but more intricate lattices have more interesting shapes. Lattices can be made from wood, plastic, metal or may even be made out of pastry strips on top of a pie.
People laugh as a reaction to something funny, or when they are tickled. Laughing is normally something you do when you are very happy.
