What's the difference between lap and lax?

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.

Lax


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
  • (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
  • (v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
  • (n.) A looseness; diarrhea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
  • (3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
  • (4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
  • (5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
  • (6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
  • (7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
  • (8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
  • (9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
  • (10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
  • (13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
  • (14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
  • (15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
  • (16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
  • (17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
  • (18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
  • (19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
  • (20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.

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