lap

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

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

Coordinate term: knee

(figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.

The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.

(archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.

(engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

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part that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down

delantal

engineering, A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).


lap

Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Sixth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

to lap his head on lady's breast

(transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

en-verb

lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped)

laps (present singular third-person)
lapping (participle present)
lapped (participle past)
lapped (past)


lap

to lap a piece of cloth

(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.

to lap a bandage around a finger

About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.

1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up

lapped in luxury

One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.

(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.

Coordinate term: grind

(transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.

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.

1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.

en:overtake race competitors substantially

(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.

lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped or (archaic) lapt)

laps (present singular third-person)
lapping (participle present)
lapped (participle past)
lapped (past)
lapt (archaic participle past)
lapt (archaic past)

припокривам

(transitive) To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another

csiszol

(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth

припокривам се

(intransitive) To lie partly on or over something; to overlap

ohittaa kierroksella

sports, motor racing: to overtake a straggler in a race

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.


lap

the lap of a board

That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.

The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

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).

to run twenty laps

to drive the fastest lap in qualifying

to win by three laps

Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps.

2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) One circuit around a race track.

to swim two laps

(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.

en:piece of soft metal charged with polishing compound

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.

припокриване

state of being in part extended over something else

塘

swimming: the traversal of one length of the pool


lap

Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.

They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily […]as they run along the shore.

(transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.

1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Passing of Arthur”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 144:

(intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

وَلَغَ

to take liquid into the mouth with the tongue

плискам

to wash against a surface with a splashing sound

From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”); akin to Old High German laffen (“to lick”), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (“spoon”). Cognate with Latin lambere (“lick”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Compare Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.

onomatopoeic

imitative


lap

With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]

1955, Ann Haven Morgan, Kinships of Animals and Man: A Textbook of Animal Biology, page 176:

The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.

(obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.

en-noun

lap (countable and uncountable, plural laps)

onomatopoeic

imitative


lap

(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.

(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy.


lap

(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic.