lap
IPA: ɫˈæp
noun
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- 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; that part of the person thus covered.
- (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
- The upper legs of a seated person.
- (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
- (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- The act or process of lapping.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- 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).
- (sports) One circuit around a race track.
- (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- 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 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.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy. [(medicine) Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.]
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy. [(surgery) The surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.]
verb
- (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
- (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- (transitive) to envelop, enfold
- (intransitive) to wind around
- (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
- (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- (transitive, sports, motor racing) 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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
adjective
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic. [Of, relating to, or using laparoscopy or a laparoscope.]
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Examples of "lap" in Sentences
- The child sat on his mother's lap.
- The kitten sat on my lap and took a nap.
- Pugs are by far the largest of the lap dogs.
- Adam loves to lay down on his girl friend's lap.
- Students disrobe and run a lap around Harvard Yard.
- _lip, lap, lip, lap_ you hear is made by their tails.
- The cat on Clark's lap is a symbol of infidelity and envy.
- The quill is carefully lowered to the lap and contact is made.
- She then spilled the coffee on her lap and was seriously scalded.
- The size of the tome in his lap emphasizes the dwarf's smallness.
- Since the infraction was on the last lap, it amounted to a disqualification.
- In his lap is a wonderful little house dog named Kingsley, property of one Attackerman.
- The driver of the pickup had just avoided death as a moose flying up the bonnet into your lap is usually fatal.
- It will happen for you too as long as you know you have to make the effort - fate, or love just falling into your lap is a fallacy.
- Sitting open on his lap is a wooden box, which he is gazing into intently, as though inside the box is the key to all his worldly hopes and dreams.
- If you are injured by another party of course you should be compensated, but 8 million dollars for spilling a hot cup of coffee in your lap is ridiculous.
- As I am drip drying this huge paw pushes its way into the sheets and on my lap is a 100 pound street dog (who I would later find out was named "Besos", his favorite activity).
- And after trying to deal with all the horrible crap dropped in his lap from the nightmare of EIGHT years of Bush/Cheney and republican majorities he should be very happy with 48%.
- Don't misunderstand me, dear Jenny; I know that the little child lying in your lap is also flesh and blood of mine, but, when I think of you as a mother, I cannot help feeling myself out in the cold like poor old Joseph.
- Anyway, the title lap was run, and afterward Lewis brought back some sand he had scooped up from the pit, and the flag he had carried and other memorabilia, and handed them over to be auctioned off for the Wendy foundation. ""