What's the difference between lad and lap?

Lad


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Lead, to guide.
  • (n.) A boy; a youth; a stripling.
  • (n.) A companion; a comrade; a mate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) They caught all three of them and then proceeded to let the two white lads go."
  • (3) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (4) As part of two Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Trials, we obtained angiographic patency data for internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein grafts to the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery at 1 year after coronary artery bypass surgery.
  • (5) Most patients had obstruction or severe stenosis of the proximal LAD coronary artery together with a poor runoff as demonstrated angiographically.
  • (6) LAD to LCCA collaterals serve as functionally significant bidirectional perfusion conduits, and monitoring of collateral perfusion development is practical by measuring the step reduction in LCCA flow upon abrupt release of an LAD occlusion.
  • (7) In a forth patient with occulsion of the LAD, there was no response to intracoronary NTG and mechanical recanalization was not attempted.
  • (8) In addition, Northern analysis of mRNA expression also demonstrated that the transfected LAD patient cells were expressing high quantities of exogenous beta subunit mRNA.
  • (9) And he enjoyed holding court to pretty girls and jolly lads at the Academy Club, a bohemian joint he founded next to his office.
  • (10) When the LAD perfusion was switched from aortic perfusion to the systolic one, the subendocardial PO2 decreased to 9.8 mmHg, on an average, in 1 to 2 min from the initial level of 18.9 mmHg obtained during the aortic perfusion.
  • (11) Group I (n = 7) had normal LAD, group II (n = 18) had LAD stenosis of varying degrees.
  • (12) 4) The unfolded map diagnosis with apical display obtained from long-axis tomogram was useful to diagnose left anterior descending coronary (LAD) lesion, which improve not only the sensitivity of LAD but also specificity of right coronary artery single vessel disease.
  • (13) The anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) was partially occluded causing an average 71% reduction in its blood flow.
  • (14) They had a good threat up top with the two lads up front, who messed us around all day long to be honest.
  • (15) Six of 16 had stenosis of a single coronary artery [left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), four; right coronary artery (RCA), two]; four of six survived RVD.
  • (16) Ischaemia was produced by decreasing the perfusion blood flow of the LAD to 50% (moderate ischaemia) and 27% (severe ischemia) of normal.
  • (17) There are absolutely no egos and the Premier League boys are so welcoming and have made it easy to fit in both with the style of play and behind the scenes with the lads.
  • (18) To assess the validity of the quantitative 201Tl scintimetry in various diseases of the heart (coronary heart disease with and without myocardial infarction, non-coronary cardiomyopathy, scleroderma heart disease and asymmetric septal hypertrophy with IHSS), the 201Tl myocardial uptake values for five standardized projections (a) were correlated with the grade of LAD stenosis, (b) the pattern of myocardial wall motion and (c) were compared with the 201Tl uptake values derived from normal patients.
  • (19) The LAD regions of the same hearts served as untreated control myocardium.
  • (20) Everything happens for Alan Shearer - he's a lucky lad like that.

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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