(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.
Lar
Definition:
(n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
(n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) Substitutes: Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain), Lajos Detari (Hungary), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia), Igor Belanov (USSR), Preben Elkjær Larsen (Denmark), Lars Larsson (Sweden), Alexandre Zavarov (USSR).
(4) The concentration of the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in their sputum did not change significantly in IAR and LAR compared with that before antigen challenge.
(5) Antonio Conte Vicente del Bosque Lars Lagerbäck Didier Deschamps Conte's Italy lost to Deschamps's France in the Euro 2000 final.
(6) Employing an animal model of the LAR in rabbits developed in our laboratory (Am Rev Respir Dis 1982; 126:493-498), we examined changes in airway reactivity and pulmonary inflammation in rabbits having a late asthmatic response.
(7) The late asthmatic response (LAR) is of special interest because it lasts for hours, is prevented by corticosteroids and not adrenergic agents, and is associated with more severe asthma as well as increases in airways responsiveness.
(8) A study of the effects of monthly administration of bromocriptine LAR is currently under progress to assess the long-term efficacy of this drug.
(9) By including the gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin gene sequences from the common gibbon, Hylobates lar, the present work expands the gamma-globin data set to represent all major groups of hominoid primates.
(10) Another group of investigators assume that non-specific hyperreactivity could contribute to the development of the LAR.
(11) All eight temperature-sensitive mutations are confined within a short segment of the LAR domain I sequence between amino acid positions 1329 and 1407.
(12) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(13) Each individual was pretreated with either placebo or four inhalant anti-asthmatic drugs at random and blind in order to modulate the late asthmatic reaction (LAR).
(14) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(15) In order to investigate the mechanism of late asthmatic response (LAR), inhibitory effects of various drugs for LAR were examined in two wheat flour-sensitive asthmatic subjects who showed immediate and late responses in the allergen provocation test and skin test.
(16) These results suggest that anti-IgE antibody is deeply involved in the elicitation of LAR, stressing the importance of eosinophilic infiltration.
(17) We have now examined whether exogenously applied PAF causes LAR in these models in vivo.
(18) After removal of the rectal lesion [eight abdominoperineal resections (APRs), nine Hartmann's procedures, and one low anterior resection (LAR)] in 18 patients with rectal cancer, this new surgical procedure was performed.
(19) LAR to Parietaria occurred in only one of 12 patients in winter, in six of 11 in summer, and in one of six patients in autumn.
(20) Although these alterations in reactivity have been proposed to be associated with inflammation, no clinical study of the LAR has shown both increased airway reactivity and evidence of pulmonary inflammation.