Definitions for LAP

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LAP lap

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IPA: /læp/

Lap is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in LAP (alp).

Definitions for LAP

noun

1. the front part of the human body from the waist to the knees when in a sitting position.
2. the part of the clothing that lies on the front portion of the body from the waist to the knees when one sits.
3. a place, environment, or situation of rest or nurture:
4. area of responsibility, care, charge, or control:
5. a hollow place, as a hollow among hills.
6. the front part of a skirt, especially as held up to contain something.
7. a part of a garment that extends over another:
8. a loose border or fold.
9. the act of lapping.
10. the amount of material required to go around a thing once.
11. a complete circuit of a course in racing or in walking for exercise:
12. an overlapping part.
13. the extent or amount of overlapping.
14. a rotating wheel or disk holding an abrasive or polishing powder on its surface, used for gems, cutlery, etc.
15. 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.
16. the act of lapping liquid.
17. the lapping of water against something.
18. the sound of this:
19. something lapped up, as liquid food for dogs.

verb

1. simple past tense of leap.

Verb phrases

1. lap up, Informal. to receive enthusiastically: to take in (all of a liquid) with the tongue; drink up:

verb (used with object)

1. to fold over or around something; wrap or wind around something:
2. to enwrap in something; wrap up; clothe.
3. to envelop or enfold:
4. to lay (something) partly over something underneath; lay (things) together, one partly over another; overlap.
5. to lie partly over (something underneath).
6. to get a lap or more ahead of (a competitor) in racing, as on an oval track.
7. to cut or polish with a lap.
8. to join, as by scarfing, to form a single piece with the same dimensions throughout.
9. to change (cotton, wool, etc.) into a compressed layer or sheet.
10. (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound:
11. to take in (liquid) with the tongue; lick in:

verb (used without object)

1. to fold or wind around something.
2. to lie partly over or alongside of something else.
3. to lie upon and extend beyond a thing; overlap.
4. to extend beyond a limit.
5. to wash or move in small waves with a light, slapping or splashing sound:
6. to take up liquid with the tongue; lick up a liquid.

Origin of LAP

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

Examples for LAP

Viviette shredded an apple blossom that had fallen into her lap.

In Sidney's lap lay a small pasteboard box, punched with many holes.

His maiden looked up from her mother's lap where she wept for him, and fled shrieking.

Customers rave “Fun place to go, especially with the $5 lap dance lunch special.”

Harriet sat with her hands in her lap and listened while Tillie poured out her story.

A. I struck him in the back of the head while he was in my lap fighting to break free.

Tihen had insisted he was in her lap as she struggled to handcuff him.

If you saw it in front of you, your pencil would drop, your tablet would fall from your lap.

Creativity is not something that falls into your lap in full bloom.

Hester threw herself on her knees, and buried her face in her mother's lap.