Mandore vs. Lute: What's the Difference?

Mandore and Lute Definitions
Mandore
(musical instruments) An early form of lute, that gave rise to the mandolin
Lute
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.
Mandore
Alternative spelling of mandor
Lute
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.
Mandore
A kind of four-stringed lute.
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Lute
To coat, pack, or seal with lute.
Lute
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.
Lute
Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
Lute
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
Lute
(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
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Lute
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
Lute
To fix or fasten something with lute.
Lute
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.
Lute
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
Lute
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
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Lute
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.
Lute
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
Lute
To sound, as a lute.
Lute
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Knaves are menThat lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
Lute
A substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
Lute
Chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard