What's the difference between lapping and rapping?
Lapping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lap
(n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
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.
Rapping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
Example Sentences:
(1) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(2) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
(3) Now she also dabbles in playwriting and rap, and is in the band Sound of Rum .
(4) Renal autoregulation during decreases in renal arterial pressure (RAP) was examined in animals pretreated with a competitive antagonist of angiotensin ii, [1-sarcosine, 8-glycine] angiotensin II, or one of two chemically dissimilar inhibitors of prostaglandin synthetase, indomethacin and meclofenamate.
(5) To test this hypothesis, children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) with no identifiable organic cause were compared to children with an organic diagnosis for their abdominal pain, children with psychiatric disorders, and healthy controls.
(6) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(7) In dogs with heart failure, PGE2 lowered the MAP and TPR and elevated the CO and SV without an effect on the RAP, PRC, and NE.
(8) Yet, in PX dogs infused simultaneously with amino acids and glucagon, RBF and GFR rose by 22 and 24%, respectively, at baseline RAP.
(9) On board Air Force One on the flight from Washington to New Orleans, Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist, New Orleans native and former member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, told reporters that Bush had gotten a bad rap for his handling of the recovery.
(10) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(11) The expression of ras p21 (as detected by RAP-5 and Y13-259) was noted in a wide range of cell types and tissues; intense immunostaining was noted in epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract, exocrine and endocrine pancreas, renal tubules and transitional urotheliem, as well as in other tissues.
(12) The analysis of the haemodymanic responses and the behaviour of many "contractility indices" of the right ventricle -- after acute intravenous injection of large doses of acetil-digoxin, in twelve patients with CPC caused by COLD with predominant clinical signs of emphysema (group A) or bronchitis (group B) -- showed an alarming, although transient, increase of the average pulmonary pressure (PAP), accompanied by rise of pulmonary arteriolar resistanced (RAP), especially in patients of the first group.
(13) Rap group Migos were stopped from riding their IO Hawks through a shopping centre when they launched their own clothing line, and Khalifa has used a similar device ( the PhunkeeDuck ) while shopping.
(14) Apart from that, nothing much to write home about, except that Whelan was lucky to escape a booking when he trod on Olivier Giroud's ankle and Erik Pieters possibly took the rap a few minutes later, picking up a caution for a less obvious foul on the same player.
(15) He rapped – he was introducing Dr Carson to his lyrics and what he raps about.” He quickly added that “it was clean rap; his lyrics were all clean.” The conversation was some time ago, Williams said, while Carson was still at Johns Hopkins.
(16) At rest, pulmonary artery (PAP), pulmonary wedge (PWP), and right atrial pressures (RAP) were reduced by 42%, 55% and 77%, respectively, after the first dose and by 26%, 32% and 45%, respectively, after the chronic (three weeks) treatment with BN.
(17) Reduction of RAP to 100 mmHg during CEI infusion caused SNGFR to decrease below control values in both OC and IC nephrons, and the autoregulation as found in control rats was impaired.
(18) Therefore, FK-506 interferes with an early event of T-cell activation that leads to apoptosis whereas RAP does not.
(19) In contrast, RAP did not modify the inhibitory effect of CsA on A23187-induced histamine release.
(20) Pitch A mix of hard-edged content – rap freestyles delivered straight to camera by attitude-heavy grime artists – and glitzier material: red-carpet reporting from movie premieres, backstage interviews with popstars and high-profile music videos.