(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.
Lip
Definition:
(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
(v. t.) To utter; to speak.
(v. t.) To clip; to trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(3) The authors report their experience of the reconstruction by z-plasty in cases of shortness of the lip frenum.
(4) With the teeth in occlusion, lip separation was reduced.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(7) On the basis of these studies, four of the neonates required a tongue-lip adhesion to stabilize the airway.
(8) Single doses of lip-AMB resulted in 88 to 100% survival by day 42.
(9) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(10) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(13) Lower lip perturbation duration was manipulated to yield two different load conditions.
(14) Transposition of prolabium not required in the definitive lip repair into the floor of the nose permits subsequent columellar construction.
(15) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(16) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(17) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(18) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(19) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.