Your lap is the top of your thighs when you sit down, where your cat might sit. Lap can also refer to a trip around a racetrack, or to the act of overtaking a competitor by a lap.
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Noun
touching with the tongue; "the dog''s laps were warm and wet"
Noun
movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
Noun
a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"
Noun
the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs; "his lap was covered with food stains"
Noun
the upper side of the thighs of a seated person; "he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"
Noun
an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap"
Verb
wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"
Verb
take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother''s breast"
Verb
pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
Verb
move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
Verb
lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
n.
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that
plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
n.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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).
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the
carding machine.
n.
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.
v. t.
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
v. t.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
See 1st Lap, 10.
n.
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a
piece of cloth.
n.
To wrap or wind around something.
n.
To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
n.
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.
n.
To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for
further working.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed
by licking up something.
v. i.
To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with
the tongue.
v. t.
To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a
quick motion of the tongue.
n.
The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take
anything into the mouth with a lap.
n.
The sound of lapping.
Lap
If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.3.
Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps.4.
Lap
To lap his head on lady's breast.2.
Lap
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.3.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.4.
Lap
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay.
Lap
The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.2.
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Lap
They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
Lap
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something;
To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another;
To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue;
Usage Examples
You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
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Other Usage ExamplesWith the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
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