(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.
Lep
Definition:
(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six of the dogs had received Flury strain LEP vaccination.
(2) Further, LEP amplitudes in two patients with bilateral independent temporal lobe seizure onset were markedly diminished compared with one patient with a nontemporal lobe seizure onset.
(3) The most characteristic morphological feature of the CMV-infected BAMB cells was the formation of multinucleated giant cells which frequently contained more than a hundred nuclei; such cells were not seen in LEP cultures.
(4) The results suggest that LEPs are under cholinergic modulation.
(5) While in LEP cells most nucleocapsids were enveloped from the inner leaflet of the nuclear membrane, in the other system a great majority of the particles acquired their envelopes by budding into vacuoles.
(6) Both strains of diploide cells WI 38 and LEP and primary cultures of chicken fibroblast from embryos of SPF chickens did not develop any tumors.
(7) This is the biggest single investment in the north of England by a billion miles,” said Barry Dodd, chair of York, North Yorks and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), supporting the proposal at Tuesday’s planning meeting in Whitby.
(8) To date, the consensus of the health care teams which are involved with the LEP is that 45 minutes every two weeks for discussion and planning for a selected long-stay patient has been time well spent.
(9) The plan will see £556m allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships in the north of England, £542m to the Midlands and east of England, and £683m to LEPs in the south-west, south-east and London.
(10) LEP and SOC cell lines were contaminated with mouse cells.
(11) A female patient with disfiguring lupus erythematosus profundus (LEP) from the age of 13 years was found to have an isolated partial C4 deficiency, with reduced levels of both allotypes, C4A and C4B.
(12) With this system the lep gene of Salmonella typhimurium was cloned and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(13) But he criticises the current quality of LEPs that replaced the regional development agencies, calling for them to be strengthened saying "they currently do not have the authority or resource to transform their locality".
(14) Adeno 7 T-antigen was detected earlier and in a higher percentage of GMK cells than in the fully permissive LEP cells and its formation was only slightly influenced by the incubation temperature.
(15) Human diploid cells (LEP) infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 were extracted by treatment with Nonidet P-40.
(16) The patients receiving Ambroxol showed an increased LEP mean value (T50 = 18.36 min) in comparison with the baseline mean value (T50 = 16.41 min).
(17) Adeno 7 virus replicated well in human diploid (LEP) cells but only to a low degree in green monkey kidney (GMK) cells at 37 degrees C; it did not replicate in either system at 29 degrees C. At 37 degrees C SV 40 virus replicated well in GMK cells but only moderately in LEP cells; at 29 degrees C it did not replicate in either system.
(18) A RNase in all doses used had no effect on cell proliferation, whereas AS RNase exerted inhibitory activity beginning with the dose of 10 microgram, and affected more markedly the LEP cells (a diploid non-malignant cell line) than the malignant heteroploid HeLa cells.
(19) Adonis has decided not to abolish these 39 LEPs but instead significantly reduce their number and revamp their boundaries so they better match travel-to-work areas.
(20) The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Ambroxol on lung epithelial permeability (LEP) in healthy smokers.