What does LAP mean?

Definitions for LAP
læplap

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lapnoun

    the upper side of the thighs of a seated person

    "he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"

  2. lapnoun

    an area of control or responsibility

    "the job fell right in my lap"

  3. lap, lap coveringnoun

    the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs

    "his lap was covered with food stains"

  4. lap, overlapnoun

    a flap that lies over another part

    "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"

  5. lap, circle, circuitnoun

    movement once around a course

    "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"

  6. lick, lapverb

    touching with the tongue

    "the dog's laps were warm and wet"

  7. lapverb

    lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another

  8. lick, lapverb

    pass the tongue over

    "the dog licked her hand"

  9. lap, swish, swosh, swooshverb

    move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound

    "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"

  10. lap, lap up, lickverb

    take up with the tongue

    "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

  11. lave, lap, washverb

    wash or flow against

    "the waves laved the shore"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lapnoun

    Etymology: læppe , Saxon; lappe, German.

    If a joint of meat falls on the ground, take it up gently, wipe it with the lap of your coat, and then put it into the dish. Jonathan Swift, Directions to a Footman.

    It seeds each living plant with liquid sap,
    And fills with flowers fair Flora’s painted lap. Edmund Spenser.

    Upon a day, as love lay sweetly slumb’ring
    All in his mothers lap,
    A gentle bee, with his loud trumpet murm’ring,
    About him flew by hap. Edmund Spenser.

    I’ll make my haven in a lady’s lap,
    And ’witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. William Shakespeare.

    She bids you
    All on the wanton rushes lay you down,
    And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
    And she will sing the song that pleaseth you. William Shakespeare.

    Let us rear
    The higher our opinion, that our stirring
    Can from the lap of Egypt’s widow pluck
    The ne’er-lust-wearied Antony. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

    Heav’n’s almighty sire
    Melts on the bosom of his love, and pours
    Himself into her lap in fruitful show’rs. Richard Crashaw.

    Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, and that happiness should drop into their laps. John Tillotson.

    He struggles into breath, and cries for aid;
    Then, helpless, in his mother’s lap is laid.
    He creeps, he walks, and issuing into man,
    Grudges their life from whence his own began:
    Retchless of laws, affects to rule alone,
    Anxious to reign, and restless on the throne. Dryden.

  2. To Lapverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    He hath a long tail, which, as he descends from a tree, he laps round about the boughs, to keep himself from falling. Nehemiah Grew, Museum,.

    About the paper, whose two halves were painted with red and blue, and which was stiff like thin pasteboard, I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk. Newton.

    As through the flow’ring forest rash she fled,
    In her rude hairs sweet flowers themselves did lap,
    And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap. Edmund Spenser.

    The thane of Cawder ’gan a dismal conflict,
    Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapt in proof,
    Confronted him. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    When we both lay in the field,
    Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me,
    Ev’n in his garments, and did give himself,
    All thin and naked, to the numb cold night. William Shakespeare.

    Ever against eating cares.
    Lap me in soft Lydian airs. John Milton.

    Indulgent fortune does her care employ,
    And smiling, broods upon the naked boy;
    Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds,
    And covers with her wings from nightly colds. Dryden.

    Here was the repository of all the wise contentions for power between the nobles and commons, lapt up safely in the bosom of a Nero and a Caligula. Jonathan Swift.

  3. To Lapverb

    To lick up.

    For all the rest
    They’ll take suggestion, as a cat laps milk. William Shakespeare.

    Upon a bull
    Two horrid lyons rampt, and seis’d, and tugg’d off, bellowing still,
    Both men and dogs came; yet they tore the hide, and lapt their fill. George Chapman, Iliad, b. xviii.

  4. To Lapverb

    To be spread or twisted over any thing.

    The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly. Nehemiah Grew.

  5. To Lapverb

    To feed by quick reciprocations of the tongue.

    Etymology: lappian , Saxon; lappen, Dutch.

    The dogs by the river Nilus’ side being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Kenelm Digby, on bodies.

    They had soups served up in broad dishes, and so the fox fell to lapping himself, and bade his guest heartily welcome. Roger L'Estrange, Fab. 31.

    The tongue serves not only for tasting, but for mastication and deglutition, in man, by licking; in the dog and cat kind, by lapping. John Ray, on Creation.

Wikipedia

  1. lap

    A lap is the area on top of the thighs of a sitting person.

ChatGPT

  1. lap

    In its most general definition, a lap refers to a single complete trip or round, usually along a circular course or specified pathway such as in a race. It can also refer to the flat area between the waist and knees of a seated person. However, the term "lap" can have different meanings depending on the context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lapnoun

    the loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron

  2. Lapnoun

    an edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth

  3. Lapnoun

    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; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury

  4. Lapnoun

    that part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing

  5. Lapnoun

    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 Outside lap (below)

  6. Lapnoun

    the state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader

  7. Lapnoun

    one circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2

  8. Lapnoun

    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

  9. Lapnoun

    a sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine

  10. Lapnoun

    a piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis

  11. Lapverb

    to rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap

  12. Lapverb

    to cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10

  13. Lapnoun

    to fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth

  14. Lapnoun

    to wrap or wind around something

  15. Lapnoun

    to infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish

  16. Lapnoun

    to lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one

  17. Lapnoun

    to lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working

  18. Lapverb

    to be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap

  19. Lapverb

    to take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something

  20. Lapverb

    to make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue

  21. Lapverb

    to take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue

  22. Lapnoun

    the act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap

  23. Lapnoun

    the sound of lapping

  24. Etymology: [OE. lappen, lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG. lappen, OHG. laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw. lppja, L. lambere; cf. Gr. , W. llepio. Cf. Lambent.]

Wikidata

  1. Lap

    A lap is a surface created between the knee and hips of a bipedal being when it is in a seated or lying down position.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lap

    lap, v.t. to lick up with the tongue: to wash or flow against.—v.i. to drink by licking up a liquid: to make a sound of such a kind:—pr.p. lap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. lapped.—n. a motion or sound like lapping. [A.S. lapian; Low Ger. lappen; L. lambĕre, Gr. laptein.]

  2. Lap

    lap, n. the loose or overhanging flap of anything: the part of a substance extending over or partly over the rear of another, or the extent of such extension: the part of the clothes lying on the knees when a person sits down: the part of the body thus covered, esp. with reference to nursing, &c.: a fold: a course or round of the track, as in foot-racing, &c.: at euchre, &c., a carrying over to the next game of a surplus of points from the last: the space over which a steam-engine slide-valve travels after the closing of the steam-passage to or from the cylinder: a rotating disc of lead, copper, leather, &c., charged with an abrasive powder, used in cutting gems, &c.—v.t. to lay over or on.—v.i. to be spread on or over: to be turned over or upon.—ns. Lap′-board, a flat wide board resting on the lap, used by tailors and seamstresses; Lap′-dog, a small dog fondled in the lap: a pet dog; Lap′ful, as much as fills a lap.—adj. Lap′-joint′ed, having joints formed by overlapping edges.—ns. Lap′-stone, a stone which shoemakers hold in the lap to hammer leather on; Lap′-streak, a clinker-built boat—also adj.; Lap′work, work containing lap-joints. [A.S. læppa, a loosely hanging part; Ice. lapa, to hang loose, Ger. lappen, a rag.]

  3. Lap

    lap, v.t. to wrap, fold, involve.—ns. Lap′per, one who wraps or folds: in cotton manufacturing, a machine which compacts the scutched cotton into a fleece upon the surface of a roller called a lap-roller; Lap′ping, the process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine: the rubbing or polishing of a metal surface: the process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore. [M. E. wlappen, being a form of wrap.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. lap

    In naval mine warfare, that section or strip of an area assigned to a single sweeper or formation of sweepers for a run through the area.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LAP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lap is ranked #146201 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Lap surname appeared 113 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lap.

    59.2% or 67 total occurrences were White.
    37.1% or 42 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'LAP' in Nouns Frequency: #2225

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of LAP in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of LAP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of LAP in a Sentence

  1. Doug Ducey:

    This is not a victory lap, this is not a celebration. If anything, it's evidence that the decisions and the sacrifice that Arizonans are making are working.

  2. Kathleen Wilson:

    The comfortable temperature range is much smaller in the water than it is on land, once the water begins to exceed the mid-80s, especially with corresponding warm air temperatures, it can become too hot if moving around in a lap swimming or training session.

  3. Jeff Gordon:

    I wouldn't do any (type) racing if I couldn't fully prepare for and I couldn't bring something to that team to enhance the their chances of winning, if I feel healthy enough with my back. Physically fit enough to handle the (high gravity forces) ... make the lap times. It would be definitely be the goal.

  4. Thomas Carlyle:

    Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

  5. Johnny Joey Jones:

    So my message to Six Flags is, I do n’t hate you, I do n’t want to tell people not to go there. I want you to apply the same type of care and thoughtfulness that Universal Studios, Disney, SeaWorld, and everywhere else I’ve gone and ridden roller coasters, and done so safely, I want you to apply the same knowledge and expertise that they apply, the only prohibiting factor is if that lap bar or those shoulder harnesses ca n’t function as designed, and my body will [ allow ] that.

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