lap

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Noun 1.3.2.1 Derived terms 1.3.2.2 Translations 1.3.2.3 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 See also 3 Hungarian 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Declension 3.2.2 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /læp/
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• Rhymes: -æp

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English læppa (skirt or flap of a garment), from Proto-Germanic *lapp-, confer Middle Dutch lappe, Old High German lappa, German Lappen, Old Norse leppr (“‘lock of hair’”).

[edit] Noun

lap (plural laps)

1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
3. 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.
4. The upper legs of a seated person.

   The boy was sitting on his mother's lap

5. (archaic (17th century)), (euphemism) The female pudenda.
6. (construction) component that overlaps or covers any portion of the same or adjacent component.

[edit] Derived terms

• lapdance, lap-dance, lap dance
• lapdog
• lapmark
• laptop, lap-top, lap top

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English lappen "to fold, wrap" from earlier Middle English wlappen "to fold, wrap" from Old English *wlappan, wlæppan, wlappian "to wrap" from Proto-Germanic *wrappan-, wlappan- (“‘to wrap, fold, roll up, turn’”) from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“‘to bend, turn’”). Akin to Danish dial. vravle "to wind", Old Italian goluppare "to wrap, fold up" (from Germanic). More at envelop, develop

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.

[edit] Verb

to lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped)

1. (transitive) to fold, wrap
2. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up

   to lap a bandage around a finger

3. (transitive) to envelop, enfold

   lapped in luxury

4. (intransitive) to wind around
5. (transitive) To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another.

   One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.

6. (transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
7. (intransitive) To lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
8. (transitive) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more lap than them.

[edit] Derived terms

• lapper

[edit] Noun

lap (plural laps)

1. the act or process of lapping
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. 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.
5. (sports) One circuit around a race track, or one traversal down and then back the length of a pool; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps, to swim two laps.
6. 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.
7. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
8. 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.

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• lap of honor/lap of honour

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[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English lapian, from Proto Germanic *lapajanan, akin to Old High German laffen (to lick), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (spoon). Cognate with Latin lambere (“‘lick’”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Cf. Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.

[edit] Verb

to lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped)

1. (transitive) To slurp up a liquid (like water) as a dog.

[edit] Derived terms

• lapper

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[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: alp , ALP
• APL
• LPA
• pal, PAL
• PLA

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Noun

lap m. (plural lappen, diminutive lapje, diminutive plural lapjes)

1. a rag, a piece of cloth
2. a slice of meat
3. a Laplander

[edit] See also

• (rag) vod f.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlɒp/

[edit] Noun

lap (plural lapok)

1. sheet (paper)
2. page (book)

   ezen a lapon - on this page

3. newspaper

   a mai lap - today’s paper

4. card (game, post card)
5. face of a polyhedron

[edit] Declension

declension of lap singular plural nominative lap lapok accusative lapot lapokat dative lapnak lapoknak instrumental lappal lapokkal causal-final lapért lapokért translative lappá lapokká terminative lapig lapokig essive-formal lapként lapokként essive-modal - - inessive lapban lapokban superessive lapon lapokon adessive lapnál lapoknál illative lapba lapokba sublative lapra lapokra allative laphoz lapokhoz elative lapból lapokból delative lapról lapokról ablative laptól lapoktól

possessives of lap possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. lapom lapjaim 2nd person sing. lapod lapjaid 3rd person sing. lapja lapjai 1st person plural lapunk lapjaink 2nd person plural lapotok lapjaitok 3rd person plural lapjuk lapjaik

[edit] Derived terms

• lapos

Compound words

• étlap
• járdalap
• karácsonyi lap
• képeslap
• napilap
• óralap
• sárga lap
• téglalap
• üdvözlőlap
• űrlap