What's the difference between gap and lap?

Gap


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
  • (v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
  • (v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Linear and annular gap junctions between neighbouring cells were present, particularly in Group 1.
  • (2) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
  • (3) Hence the major role of the 14-A arm of carboxybiotin is not to permit a large carboxyl migration but, rather to permit carboxybiotin to traverse the gap which occurs at the interface of three subunits and to insinuate itself between the CoA and keto acid sites.
  • (4) The junctional currents were already constant 1 ms after step changes in the junctional voltage; this was three orders of magnitude faster than the other known examples of voltage-controlled gap junctions between embryonic cells.
  • (5) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
  • (6) Preliminary hearing results of 45 cases show air-bone gap closure of 67% within 10 dB and 98% within 20 dB.
  • (7) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (8) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
  • (9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (10) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
  • (11) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
  • (12) PTH, an inducer of shape change, did not affect the number of gap junctions appreciably.
  • (13) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
  • (14) Since testosterone influenced both tissue stores and PDBu-stimulated secretion of LHRH and GAP, this steroid may selectively regulate biosynthesis and secretion of pro-LHRH-derived peptides through activation of the metabolic cascade involving the PKC system.
  • (15) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
  • (16) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
  • (17) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
  • (18) Regions within the desmosome where the two plasma membranes converged suggested that gap junctions were a component of the desmosome-like junctions.
  • (19) The frequency of chromosome and chromatid gaps and chromosome deletions was significantly higher among workers than among controls, and the same was true for the number of individuals with some type of chromosome alteration.
  • (20) Gap junctions were of different sizes and frequently composed of a small number of connexons organized in polygonal aggregates or linear arrays.

Lap


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (2) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
  • (3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (4) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
  • (5) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
  • (6) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
  • (7) By comparing P-LAP activity with cystine aminopeptidase activity, we concluded that both activities were shared by the same molecule.
  • (8) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (9) The new tablet models come with a better built-in kickstand with two positions rather than one, so they can rest more firmly on users' laps.
  • (10) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
  • (11) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
  • (12) Analysis of the activity of each unit was made at intervals from the beginning of the conditioned signal (light or sound) to the beginning of lapping milk which appeared in the feeding trough after the cat pressed the pedal.
  • (13) (2) The alleles at the Est-1, Est-2, Amy loci and the AP-4(1.0) and the LAP-1(.90) alleles show north south clinal change in frequency.
  • (14) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (15) We correlated Doppler variables of pulmonary venous flow and mitral inflow with simultaneously obtained mean LAP and changes in pressure measured by left atrial or pulmonary artery catheters.
  • (16) However, saccharin does not trigger a fixed rate of lapping at any point in the sequence.
  • (17) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
  • (18) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
  • (19) A significant LAP activity decrease was found only after a 30 day postcastration period when naloxone treated intact animals were compared with the castrated rats.
  • (20) These results suggest that P-LAP shows oxytocinase activity and plays an important role in the regulation of the plasma level of these hormones during pregnancy.

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