lap¹ /lap/

1. The fold of the clothes and body from waist to knees of a person sitting down
2. Part of a garment covering this area, esp arranged to hold or catch something
3. A fold
4. A single circuit of a racetrack, or round of anything coiled
5. An overlap
6. The amount of overlap (in slating, over the next but one)
7. A hollow
8. A place where one is nurtured or where one can rest secure (figurative; in phrases)
9. A flap
10. A lobe (of the ear)
11. A polishing disc, cylinder, etc
12. The length of material needed to go round a drum, etc
13. A layer or sheet of (cotton, etc) fibres
14. In a steam-engine, the distance the valve has to move from mid position to open the steam or exhaust port
15. In euchre, etc, points carried over to another game

1. To wrap, enfold or surround
2. To lay overlappingly
3. To get or be a lap ahead of
4. To traverse as a lap or in laps
5. To polish with a lap (rare)
6. To unite accurately
7. To hold in the lap (rare)

1. To lie with an overlap
2. To overlap
3. To extend beyond some limit

lapˈful noun

lappˈer noun

1. Someone who wraps or folds
2. A machine that compacts scutched cotton into a fleece on a roller called a lapˈ-roller

lappˈing noun and adjective

lap belt noun

A form of vehicle seat belt that passes across the lap only

lapˈ-board noun

A flat wide board resting on the lap, used by tailors and seamstresses

lap dance noun

lap dancer noun

A night-club stripper who dances close to clients and sits briefly on their laps

lap dancing noun

lap dissolve noun (cinematography)

A technique by which one scene in a film fades out while the next scene fades in, so that the two images momentarily overlap

lapˈdog noun

1. A dog small enough to be petted in the lap
2. A pet dog (also figurative)
3. A devoted, docile, dependent person (figurative; usu derogatory)

lapˈheld same as laptop below.

lap joint noun

A joint formed by overlapping edges

lapˈ-jointˈed adjective

lap of honour noun

A ceremonial circuit of a field, track or show ring, made by the victor or victors in a contest

lapˈstone noun

A stone held in the lap to hammer leather on

lapˈstreak or lapˈstrake noun

A clinker-built boat (also adjective)

lapˈtop noun

A portable personal computer, small enough to be carried in a briefcase, etc and used on one's lap (also adjective)

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