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noun

the front part of the human body from the waist to the knees when in a sitting position.

the part of the clothing that lies on the front portion of the body from the waist to the knees when one sits.

a place, environment, or situation of rest or nurture: the lap of luxury.

area of responsibility, care, charge, or control: They dropped the problem right in his lap.

a hollow place, as a hollow among hills.

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the front part of a skirt, especially as held up to contain something.

a part of a garment that extends over another: the lap of a coat.

a loose border or fold.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English lappe, Old English læppa; cognate with Dutch lap; akin to German lappen, Old Norse leppr rag, patch

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Example Sentences

They trot up, practically wagging their tails, and lap up her attention.

Blue waters lap around bays shaded by coconut palms.

Flannel sheets are cozy on cold nights, and repurposed flannel sheets make warm lap blankets.

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They trot up, practically wagging their tails, and lap up her attention.

Blue waters lap around bays shaded by coconut palms.

Flannel sheets are cozy on cold nights, and repurposed flannel sheets make warm lap blankets.

Warren sat down and rested his tablet bag on his lap.

Cutting food when you're eating on your lap is hard.

The lap pool is sheltered from the wind by a retaining wall and a hillside in the distance.

Most notebook users have experienced the burn that comes from keeping notebooks on their lap for an extended period of time.

He simply hung his head down, and stared into his lap.

As a result, drivers are able to shave fractions of a second off their lap times.

Store equipment on your lap or in a bag with the strap wrapped around your wrist or ankle.

Heat from a chip or circuit board turns the liquid to gas, which moves warmth to the laptop edge, away from the lap.

Parchment paper wrapped around the sandwich can do double duty on your lap as a drip-catcher.

Notebook computers aren't supposed to burn your lap.

As for price, keep in mind what a lap top cost when that technology was new.

From then on accomplishments seemed to drop into her lap.

Research now suggests that these waters may become contaminated as they lap up on shores rich with sand bacteria.

Plovers skitter along the glistening zone on beaches where the waves lap at the shore, foraging for insects and invertebrates.

Should have stuffed everything in my suitcase and held it on lap if necessary.

High-speed videos reveal the strange technique and delicate balance of physical forces cats use to lap milk from a bowl.

She denied it even as the notebook and pencil in question lay guiltily in her lap.

Foul-smelling puddles lap at the feet of women selling rice and men selling charcoal.

The waters that lap their beaches isolate them from the pipelines and grids that deliver cheaper electricity on the mainland.

They're happy to see you, ride around on your shoulder, jump up on your lap and cry out with little squeals when upset.

Saturday's lap of the track marked the first time it's moved under its own power in public.

The talks before the talks were not exactly a lap of honour, either.

Red showered bars of chocolate on my lap and ordered me to eat.

Imagine you are almost dozing in a lounge chair outside, with a magazine on your lap.

MacBooks, but they can still cause damage to the babymaker if used on the lap.

Your correspondent's lap was as good a place as any for one elderly gentleman.

Tape several layers of cardboard together to create lap desks for children.

The fungi on her feet lap up her sweat and the mites on her head, they don't give a damn.

That's about half a gallon per lap if anyone's keeping track.

Pensions would be based on average pay throughout an employee's working life, rather than in the last lap.

He stopped at one end and picked up a pop-top to show her, then dropped it and did another lap around the bower.

Every dog can trace its heritage to the wolf, but you still have a variation as big as the miniature lap dogs to the great dane.

Learning through a computer does seem to work since my high school provided us with lap tops to use and it was effective.

They would sniff me and the puppy curled up in my lap and leave.

The lap harp that she plays at patients' bedsides is not solely meant to create an ambiance, though.

Although colleges often provide computer labs now, many students have their own lap tops or desktops.

He could come over, the cat would jump in his lap and he would totally freeze.

They lap supplemental balsa-flower nectar with a long tongue.

Lay it on your lap and you're fine, but if you're standing,.

Then, if hu's answer is incorrect, another lap around the track.

Rather than sucking blood, vampire bats make a small cut with their teeth and then lap up the flowing blood with their tongues.

Let people at your new school know that you're interested in a better deal-something may fall into your lap.

The weather may still be in the lap of the gods but the.

The lap times presented in this video are accurate and the comparison is objective.

On the other hand, you could knock over a cold drink onto their lap a couple of times, and pretend it's an accident.

The economic downturn will make the next lap hard going.

Roundheaded gullies slice into that same smooth layer, while strange tongues of who-knows-what lap at the slopes beneath them.

Hell, you could even lean back and use this in your lap.

Just dumping it in his lap and walking away, if he doesn't pick it up voluntarily.

He came up with an ingenious solution that combined a lap belt with a diagonal belt across the chest.

Stupid is the grad student who goes somewhere and not one faculty member has any interests that over lap their interests.

The first afternoon/evening he pretty much stayed in my lap on the couch.

The earliest electric guitars were either of the lap steel or hollow body archtop varieties.

We do have the education computer, it is called the lap top.

As a result drivers are able to shave fractions of a second off their lap times.

He will try to push his huge head into my lap when he wants to be petted.

Even less well-sized for an adult with a five year old occasionally sitting in his lap.

These sit solely in the lap of our current president.

If people stand up holding coffee, they won't bring their lap tops and stay for eight hours.

He started throwing the ball for her and now she sits on his lap and all the other goodies.

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verb (used with object)

to fold over or around something; wrap or wind around something: to lap a bandage around one's finger.

to enwrap in something; wrap up; clothe.

to envelop or enfold: lapped in luxury.

to lay (something) partly over something underneath; lay (things) together, one partly over another; overlap.

to lie partly over (something underneath).

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to get a lap or more ahead of (a competitor) in racing, as on an oval track.

to cut or polish with a lap.

to join, as by scarfing, to form a single piece with the same dimensions throughout.

to change (cotton, wool, etc.) into a compressed layer or sheet.

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verb (used without object)

10.

to fold or wind around something.

11.

to lie partly over or alongside of something else.

12.

to lie upon and extend beyond a thing; overlap.

13.

to extend beyond a limit.

noun

14.

the act of lapping.

15.

the amount of material required to go around a thing once.

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a complete circuit of a course in racing or in walking for exercise: to run a lap.

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an overlapping part.

18.

the extent or amount of overlapping.

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a rotating wheel or disk holding an abrasive or polishing powder on its surface, used for gems, cutlery, etc.

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a compressed layer or sheet of cotton, wool, or other fibrous material usually wound on an iron rod or rolled into a cylindrical form for further processing during carding.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English lappen to fold, wrap; cognate with Dutch lappen to patch, mend; akin to lap¹

verb (used with object)

(of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.

to take in (liquid) with the tongue; lick in: to lap water from a bowl.

verb (used without object)

to wash or move in small waves with a light, slapping or splashing sound: The water lapped gently against the mooring.

to take up liquid with the tongue; lick up a liquid.

noun

the act of lapping liquid.

the lapping of water against something.

the sound of this: the quiet lap of the sea on the rocks.

something lapped up, as liquid food for dogs.

Verb phrase

lap up,

Informal. to receive enthusiastically: The audience lapped up his monologue.

to take in (all of a liquid) with the tongue; drink up: The cat lapped up her milk and looked for more.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English lappen, unexplained variant of lapen, Old English lapian; cognate with Middle Low German lapen, Old High German laffan; akin to Latin lambere, Greek láptein to lick, lap

verb Archaic.

simple past tense of leap.

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World English Dictionary

lap¹ (læp)

—n
1.	the area formed by the upper surface of the thighs of a seated person
2.	Also called: lapful the amount held in one's lap
3.	a protected place or environment: in the lap of luxury
4.	any of various hollow or depressed areas, such as a hollow in the land
5.	the part of one's clothing that covers the lap
6.	drop in someone's lap give someone the responsibility of
7.	in the lap of the gods beyond human control and power

[Old English læppa flap; see lobe, lappet, lop²]

lap² (læp)

—n
1.	one circuit of a racecourse or track
2.	a stage or part of a journey, race, etc
3.	a. an overlapping part or projection
	b. the extent of overlap
4.	the length of material needed to go around an object
5.	a rotating disc coated with fine abrasive for polishing gemstones
6.	any device for holding a fine abrasive to polish materials
7.	metallurgy a defect in rolled metals caused by the folding of a fin onto the surface
8.	a sheet or band of fibres, such as cotton, prepared for further processing

—vb , laps, lapping, lapped
9.	(tr) to wrap or fold (around or over): he lapped a bandage around his wrist
10.	(tr) to enclose or envelop in: he lapped his wrist in a bandage
11.	to place or lie partly or completely over or project beyond
12.	(tr; usually passive) to envelop or surround with comfort, love, etc: lapped in luxury
13.	(intr) to be folded
14.	(tr) to overtake (an opponent) in a race so as to be one or more circuits ahead
15.	(tr) to polish or cut (a workpiece, gemstone, etc) with a fine abrasive, esp to hone (mating metal parts) against each other with an abrasive
16.	to form (fibres) into a sheet or band

[C13 (in the sense: to wrap): probably from lap¹]

'lapper²

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lap³ (læp)

—vb , laps, lapping, lapped
1.	(of small waves) to wash against (a shore, boat, etc), usually with light splashing sounds
2.	(often foll by up) (esp of animals) to scoop (a liquid) into the mouth with the tongue

—n
3.	the act or sound of lapping
4.	a thin food for dogs or other animals

[Old English lapian; related to Old High German laffan, Latin lambere, Greek laptein]

'lapper³

—n

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Word Origin & History

lap

O.E. læppa "skirt or flap of a garment," from P.Gmc. *lapp- (cf. M.Du. lappe, O.H.G. lappa, Ger. Lappen "rag, shred," O.N. leppr "patch, rag"), from PIE base *leb- "be loose, hang down." In 17c. the word was a euphemism for "female pudenda." Sense of "lower part of a shirt" led to that of "upper

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legs of seated person" (late 13c.). Lap dance first recorded 1993.

"To lap dance, you undress, sit your client down, order him to stay still and fully clothed, then hover over him, making a motion that you have perfected by watching Mister Softee ice cream dispensers." [Anthony Lane, review of "Showgirls," "New Yorker," Oct. 16, 1995]

Phrase lap of luxury first recorded 1802.

lap

"take up liquid with the tongue," from O.E. lapian, from P.Gmc. *lapajanan (cf. O.H.G. laffen "to lick," O.S. lepil, Ger. Löffel "spoon"), from PIE imitative base *lab- (cf. Gk. laptein "to sip, lick," L. lambere "to lick"). Meaning "splash gently" first recorded 1823, based on similarity of sound.

lap

"to lay one part over another," early 13c., from lap (n.). 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. Related: Lapped; lapping; laps.

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Computing Dictionary

LAP definition

LISP Assembly Program. The assembly language embedded into early Lisp. LAP was also used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme and MACLISP.
[Sammet 1969, p. 597].
(1994-11-01)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

lap
laparotomy

LAP
leukocyte alkaline phosphatase

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Idioms & Phrases

lap

In addition to the idioms beginning with lap, also see drop in someone's lap.