lap
nounEtymology
From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop. The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.
Definitions
The loose part of a coat
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
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A place of rearing and fostering.
The upper legs of a seated person.
- The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
The female pudenda.
A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
To enfold
To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.
To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
- to lap his head on lady's breast
To fold
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- to lap a piece of cloth
to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- to lap a bandage around a finger
- About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.
to envelop, enfold
- lapped in luxury
to wind around
To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve…
To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
To be turned or folded
To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- The cloth laps back.
- The boats lap; the edges lap.
- The upper wings are opacous[…]; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.
To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
The act or process of lapping.
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side…
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- the lap of a board
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being…
The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
One circuit around a race track.
- to run twenty laps
- to drive the fastest lap in qualifying
- to win by three laps
The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- to swim two laps
In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to…
In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder…
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue
To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.
- They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
- The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily […]as they run along the shore.
To wash against a surface with a splashing sound
To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.
The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]
Liquor
Liquor; alcoholic drink.
Clipping of laparoscopy.
Clipping of laparotomy
Clipping of laparoscopic.
Initialism of load, assemble, pack (“munitions operations”).
The neighborhood
- neighborburlap
Derived
earlap, fall into one's lap, fall into someone's lap, headlap, in the lap of the gods, land in someone's lap, lap band, lap belt, lapboard, lap cat, lap-chart, lap dance, lapdance, lap-dance, lap dancer, lap desk, lap dog, lapdog, lap dulcimer, lapel, lapful, lapheld, lapless, laplike, lapling, lapmark, lap of luxury, lappet, lap pillow, laprobe, lap robe, lap sash seatbelt, lap steel, lap steel guitar, lapstone, lapstrake, laptop, lapward, lapware, lapwise · +34 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for lap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA