Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LAP

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Definitions of LAP

1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
3. The upper legs of a seated person.
4. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
5. The act or process of lapping.
6. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
7. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
8. 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).
9. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
10. The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
11. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
12. 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.
13. (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
14. (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda. [17th century]
15. (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
16. (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
17. (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
18. (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
19. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
20. (transitive) to envelop, enfold
21. (intransitive) to wind around
22. (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
23. (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
24. (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
25. (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
26. (sports) One circuit around a race track.
27. (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
28. 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.
29. (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
30. (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
31. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.
32. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.
33. (medicine, colloquial)
34. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic.

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Examples of Using LAP in a Sentence

• It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites; one aardwolf can lap up as many as 300,000 termites during a single night using its long, sticky tongue.
• Unlike other varieties of the koto, it is held upright on the lap and played with one hand, may have more strings, is shorter, and is typically strung with steel strings.
• Separating these from other bowed string instruments such as the viola da braccio (viol for the arm) was the instruments' orientation; members of the older viol family were played with the neck oriented upwards, the rounded bottom downwards to settle on the lap or between the knees.
• Grand slam (Formula One), winning from pole position, leading every lap, and setting the fastest lap in a Grand Prix.
• His uncle Math fab Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, must keep his feet in the lap of a young virgin at all times unless he is going to war.
• At the beginning of the tale, the eponymous Math fab Mathonwy will die if his feet are not always held in the lap of a virgin or he is at war; Goewin is the virgin who performs this duty until Math is tricked into going to war by his nephews Gwydion and Gilfaethwy, who proceed to rape Goewin.
• In Math fab Mathonwy it is told that Dylan's great uncle Math would die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when not at war.
• In his first race, the 10,000 m, in the absence of Nurmi, he won by half a lap and obliterated his own fresh world record by more than 12 seconds.
• At various times it has been said that he was the bastard son of an alehouse keeper, that his father was a fugitive murderer, that he fought at Agincourt, that he was keeper of Queen Catherine's household or wardrobe, that he was an esquire of Henry V, and that his relationship with Catherine began when he fell into the queen's lap while dancing or caught the queen's eye when swimming.
• Since 2013, the lineup has consisted of Homme alongside Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar, lap steel, keyboard, percussion, backing vocals), Michael Shuman (bass guitar, keyboard, backing vocals), Dean Fertita (keyboards, guitar, percussion, backing vocals), and Jon Theodore (drums, percussion).
• Best known for his electric guitar skills, Johnson is also a highly proficient player of acoustic, lap steel, and resonator guitar, as well as an accomplished bassist, pianist, and vocalist.
• The top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional six-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lap steel guitar for slide playing.
• Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a New Zealand-born champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse.
• On lap 1, Jack Marshall riding a Triumph suffered a fall and Frank Applebee Junior a puncture to his 5 hp Rex machine.
• Mike Mogis – electric guitar (4, 9), pedal steel (6, 8), vibraphone (1, 8), tambourine (6, 8), glockenspiel (1), piano (1), Ebow pedal steel (2), electronics (2, 9), tongue drum (3), guiro (3), lap dulcimer (4), hammered dulcimer (5), atmosphere (7), acoustic guitar intro (9), organ (9), mandolin (10), keyboards (10), samples (11), percussion (11).
• Attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Woodward rushed into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's partner.
• The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, purchased hot coffee from a McDonald's restaurant, accidentally spilled it in her lap, and suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region.
• Notable areas that are part of the Islands District include Chek Lap Kok, the reclaimed island on which Hong Kong International Airport is located, Tung Chung on northern Lantau near the airport, and Discovery Bay, a large private residential area on eastern Lantau.
• The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi (acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slide guitar), Kyle Hollingsworth (piano, organ, Rhodes, and accordion), and Keith Moseley (bass guitar), and, since 2004, Jason Hann (auxiliary percussion).
• His first midget car win was at a 100 lap event at Kansas City in 1957, and finished seventh in the season points standings.

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