Meaning of Lap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2. The act or process of lapping.
3. The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
   countable, uncountable
4. Clipping of laparoscopy.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
5. Initialism of load, assemble, pack (“munitions operations”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
6. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
7. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
8. Liquor; alcoholic drink.
   obsolete, slang, uncountable
9. Clipping of laparotomy
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
10. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
11. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
12. A place of rearing and fostering.
    figuratively
13. 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).
14. The upper legs of a seated person.
15. One circuit around a race track.
16. The female pudenda.
    archaic, euphemistic
17. The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
18. A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
19. 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.
20. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
21. 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.

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Examples

“The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.”

“the lap of a board”

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

“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.”

“to swim two laps”

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

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