(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.
Straggler
Definition:
(n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
(n.) A roving vagabond.
(n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
(n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
(2) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(3) Some findings of the live animal, such as 'straggler', were associated with a wide range of post-mortem abnormalities.
(4) Then I had to wait for God knows how long until Will Adamsdale wheeled it out again for the stragglers, and when he did, I rolled up and watched slack-jawed.
(5) The euro was always meant to be a political project above all – lifting Europe’s stragglers up to the living standards of the rest and, in doing so,k cementing the political ties between Athens and Antwerp, Madrid and Munich.
(6) Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker, and her lieutenants lobbied till the last minute to round up final stragglers, but heroic measures were needed.
(7) Maybe, next week, we'll see if these stragglers fold into the party ranks.
(8) With stragglers Obama and India's Manmohan Singh confirming their attendance over the weekend, some 100 world leaders are now expected to be in Copenhagen, bolstering chances of emerging with an agreement by 18 December.
(9) #afc September 2, 2013 6.14pm BST Here come the stragglers Crystal Palace have confirmed the signing of Adrian Mariappa, the Jamaica centre-back, from Reading for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.
(10) The Arsenal defenders among the stragglers departing this arena could only wince at another glimpse of Didier Drogba .
(11) Results from a second laboratory contained both stragglers and outliers.
(12) Leave us last stragglers of the culture apocalypse in peace to paw in fingerless gloves through 12-inch relics of the time when music was still a living, radical thing.
(13) He's able to gather an army from the weak-minded, the stragglers, finding the darkness that's in us all and using it.
(14) The bot wheels around pastures on remote control, drawing stragglers back to the herd, though without actually having to nip at their heels.
(15) They’ve already given him an easy-to-use script that should be too predictable: “Hillary Clinton is much too dangerous, Trump has vowed to change his ways …” Yes, there are a few stragglers who will never be converted.
(16) Watson welcomed the winning runner at the tape, encouraged the stragglers and then, on Sunday night, led a Q&A session.
(17) Then the family gathered themselves and made their way down to the entrance on the Strand, pausing to let the stragglers out before them, knowing the grand exit that was expected, and prepared to do their bit.
(18) Now sex traffickers are following the columns of refugees, picking off young unaccompanied stragglers .
(19) While Bush and other stragglers such as Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee failed to make much impression on the debate, the third Republican TV showdown revealed how wide open its primary race remains compared with a Democratic race increasingly dominated by Clinton.
(20) But "stragglers" may not be allowed to finish if they're still running at night.