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Lap

Definition: Lap

Lap

Noun

1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.

2. An area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap".

3. The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs.

4. A flap that lies over another part.

5. Movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance".

6. Touching with the tongue.

Verb

1. Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.

2. Pass the tongue over.

3. Move with or make or cause to move with or make a whistling or hissing sound, as of liquids.

4. Take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Lap

DomainDefinition

Satire

LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Computing

LAP LISP Assembly Program. The assembly language embedded into early Lisp. LAP was also used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme and MACLISP. [Sammet 1969, p. 597]. (1994-11-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Chemical Industry

Region where a coat extends over an adjacent fresh coat. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security from vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding a person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.
To see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with humiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap, she will be endangered by a seductive enemy. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Industry

At the end of picking operation, the fibers are spread out in -- form, collected in a batting on a roller, and removed as a lap ready for carding. Source: European Union. (references)
 Lateral movement of the guide bars on the beard or hook side of the needles. This movement is normally restricted to needle space. Source: European Union. (references)
 Pickers are akin to opener, but in addition to cleaning their function is to form the aggregates of fibers into a sheet or bat form and wind this into a roll called a --. Source: European Union. (references)
 A fold in the surface of an article. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

In a sliding spool valve, the relative axial position relationship between the fixed and movable flow metering edges with the spool at null. Source: European Union. (references)

Military & Defense

In naval mine warfare, that section or strip of an area assigned to a single sweeper or formation of sweepers for a run through the area. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. One coil of rope on the winding drum of the mine hoist b. Polishing cloth used in preparing polished mineral specimens by abrasive grinding c. A surface defect, appearing as a seam, caused by folding over hot metal, fins, or sharp corners and then rolling or forging them into the surface, but not welding them d. To dimension, smooth, or polish (as a metal surface or body) to a high degree of refinement or accuracy e. An imperfection; a fold in the surface of a glass article caused by incorrect flow during forming f. A tool used for polishing glass g. A rotating disk of soft metal or wood, used to hold polishing powderfor cutting or polishing gems or metal. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

A flaw in material. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang in 1811

LAP. Butter-milk or whey. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Lap

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

LAP

DutchLandelijk AfvalbeheersplanN/A

LAP

EnglishLocal area protocolN/A

LAP

FrenchLeucine amino-peptidaseN/A

LAP

GermanLokaler Aktionsplan für BeschäftigungN/A

LAP

ItalianLeucina aminopeptidasiMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Lap

Synonyms: circle (n), circuit (n), lap covering (n), overlap (n), lap up (v), lick (v), swish (v), swosh (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Lap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark.

Animal

Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.

Circumjacence

Verb: lie around; adVerb: surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in; (circumscribe).

Clothing

Verb: invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.

Food

Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.

Intemperance

Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.

Noun: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.

Interiority

Contents; substance, pith, marrow; backbone; (center); heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap; penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses; cave; (concavity).

Physical Pleasure

Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance).

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Lap

English words defined with "lap": Buffalo robecircle, circuit, cuffDouble rivetingFace wheelGirdlestead, GremialhemInside laplap of honour, lap of luxury, lap of the gods, Lap weld, lapboard, lapdog, lapel, lapful, Lapped, lappet, Lapstone, Lapstrake, laptop, laptop computer, Lap-welded, Licker inOutside lappace car, pace lap, Plumb jointturnupvictory lapWeather-board, writing board. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lap": ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS, alley tenderbackside grinder, Baisser, BELT-MAKER HELPER, BEVEL POLISHER, BLOCKER AND CUTTER, CONTACT LENS, bolting silkC/C , card hand, card operator, CARD TENDER, carding doubler, carding engine, CAT LAP, Cat-lap, CHATTER BROTH, Columbia AppleTalk Package, COMBER TENDER, CONGO, cross dissolve, CUTTER, WET MACHINEdetail bench assembler, drum hornELEVATOR EXAMINER-AND-ADJUSTER, elevator inspector, END POLISHERFLAT POLISHER, FLAT SURFACER, JEWELgear finisher, gear nicker, GEAR-LAPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR, gear-tooth-lapping-machine operator, GRINDER, HANDhook forward method, HOT-CELL TECHNICIANjewel polisher, JEWEL-BEARING GRINDERlap arbor, lap belt, lap checker, LAP CUTTER-TRUER OPERATOR, lap dissolve, lap hand, tool, lap polisher, lap regulator, lap winder, lap-machine tender, LAPPER, HAND, TOOL, LAPPING COMPOUND, LAPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR, PRODUCTION, LAPPING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, LAP-UPS, lap-winding-machine operator, Lord, LadyMAN, micromatic-hone operator, Misnomerspad maker, PALLET RECTIFIER, paper layer, PAPIER MACHE MOLDER, PICKER TENDER, pivot-end polisher, planetary lap, POLISHING MACHINE TENDER, polishing mill, POLISHING-PAD MOUNTER, PRECISION ASSEMBLER, BENCH, precision lap hand, PRECISION-LENS POLISHERribbon lapper, RIBBON-LAP-MACHINE TENDER, roll skinner, Rome of the Westscrewhead stoner and polisher, sheet taker, sheet-lap, shoulder harness, skeletal torso harness, sliver lap machine, sliver lapper, SLIVER-LAP-MACHINE TENDER, SNAILER, STITCH-BONDING-MACHINE TENDER, STONER AND POLISHER, BEVEL FACE, SUPERVISOR, LABORATORY, Symbols of SaintsTLAs, torso suit, TUMBLER TENDERweb-machine tender, wet-press tender. (references)
Etymologies containing "lap": Lapper. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Lap" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (Laplander, Lapp), Danish (rag, scrap), Dutch (Laplander, Lapp, patch, rag, scrap), Hungarian (card, deflector, drilling, face, flat, lamina, laminae, page, plate, section, side, slab, tabula rasa).

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Modern Usage: Lap

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It fell into my lap. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Oh yeah, she's got her head in the guy's lap alright (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

It is Jewelia I want, not one of her lap dogs (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I hold 'em on my lap. (Follow the Fleet; writing credit: Hubert Osborne; Allan Scott)

Went to the store, sat on Santa's lap, asked him to bring my friends all kinds of crap (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Lyrics

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Diane's sittin' on Jackie's lap ("Jack and Diane"; performing artist: John Cougar Mellencamp)

In the backseat piece spilling Henney in his lap (No More; performing artist: Ruff Endz)

Lap dance fantasy (Perfect Gentleman; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Lap (1928)

Lizzie's Last Lap (1924)

In the Lap of the Gods (1916)

Virtual Lap Dancers (2003)

Lap Dancing (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lap

DomainTitle

Books

  • Baby's Christmas Treasury (Random House Lap Library) (reference)

  • Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: The Modern Guide to Teaching Children Good Manners (reference)

  • Lap Quilting Lives! (reference)

  • On Mother's Lap (reference)

  • The Baby's Lap Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Lap Dancing (reference)

  • Learn to Play Western Swing Steel Guitar for Lap & Non-Pedal Models, Video One: Learning the Basics (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lap

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Photo Album: Lap

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The image shows a father holding a young child on his lap. They seem to be watching an event outside of the picture. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

An asian nurse instructs a black mother, who holds her little girl in her lap, in various poses. There is also 1 slide and 1 print of the girl and her mother alone. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Down he tumbled, in a great fright directly into Petronella's lap!. Credit: Library of Congress.

He himself, would sit by the old Dutch housewives with a purring grimalkin on his lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

James Whitcomb Riley, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, with dog upon his lap, waving goodbye, on sidewalk in front of porch] / LCN. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comical scene showing maid sitting on man's lap kissing him as his wife watches. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Lap
 

"Big Dawg" by Sheila Broumley
Commentary: "A cut-out of my "little" lap dog."
"Tour down under" by Oliver Ransom
Commentary: "Tour down under cycling race lap through the city of adelaide, south australia."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Lap".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Lap steel guitar glissando chords creating a stereotypical Hawaiian sound.A lap steel guitar melody played in a stereotypically Hawaiian manner.
Slow melody with prominent lap steel glissandi.Guitar chords strumming with lap steel guitar melody in a very kitschy Hawaiian style.
Shore birds cawing while waves lap onto the beach.A lap steel guitar played in an ascending glissando manner; typical Hawaiian sound.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Lap

AuthorQuotation

Gaius Valerius Catullus

I would see a little Torquatus, stretching his baby hands from his mother's lap, smile a sweet smile at his father with lips half parted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Lap

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Lap

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Mrs Dedalus was eating little and Dante sat with her hands in her lap.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Grampa choked, and a mouthful of paste sprayed into his lap, and he coughed weakly

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

She carried me on her lap in a box tied about her waist

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lap

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Resting or static tremor occurs when the muscle is at rest, for example when the hands are lying on the lap. This type of tremor is often seen in patients with Parkinson's disease. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

Hong Kong's new international airport at Chek Lap Kok has settled into a routine of efficiency after three years of operations. (references)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Government-funded core projects, including those related to the Chek Lap Kok Airport and environmental protection, have fueled the development of Hong Kong's economy. (references)

Hong Kong

In 1998, the US$9 billion Chek Lap Kok Airport replaced Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, which was strained beyond capacity in its last year of operation with 30 million passengers and 1.6 million tons of cargo. (references)

Travel

Albania

There are no restrictions (or required paperwork) on entering Albania with a lap top computer for personal use. (references)

Greece

One each of the following articles may also be brought in duty free, provided they are re-exported, that is, for the traveler's personal use: still and movie cameras, with suitable film; binoculars; portable radios; record players; typewriters, CD players and lap tops. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Lap

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Art Linkletter

Pinwheels. And when I came out and I walked up the aisle, one of them was going one way and one of them was going the other. She says, I got up a few steps and the one on the right fell off, whirled down and landed in a man's lap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lap

"Lap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.66% of the time. "Lap" is used about 1,254 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)94.66%1,1876,514
Lexical Verb (infinitive)2.15%2766,962
Lexical Verb (base form)1.91%2471,196
Noun (proper)1.2%1590,616
Unclassified Items0.08%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,254N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Lap

Expressions using "lap": bell lap closed lap cold lap drop in smb.'s lap final lap in fortune's lap in the lap of Morpheus Inside lap it's in the lap of the gods lap about lap arbor lap choly lap course lap covering lap dissolve lap dog lap joint lap of a slate lap of honour lap of luxury lap of the gods lap over Lap riveting lap robe lap seam lap track lap turn lap up Lap weld lap width lap wrap outside lap pace lap recurrent lap single lap sliver lap machine surging lap teeming lap To lap boards To lap timbers victory lap zero lap. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "lap": lap-board, lap-boarding, lap-by-lap, LAP-D, lap-dog, lap-dogs, lap-joint, lap-jointed, lap-lap-lap, Lap-link, Lap-m, lap-of-luxury, lap-rope, lap-slide, lap-steel, lap-steels, lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streak, lap-streaked, lap-top, lap-tops, lap-type, Lap-welded.

Ending with "lap": two-lap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lap band

454

lap siding

29

lap

317

lap tray

27

lap band surgery

264

lap timer

27

lap dancing

250

used lap top

26

lap desk

229

final lap

26

lap pool

188

dell lap top

24

lap dancer

169

lap quilting

22

phar lap

99

cheap lap top

22

lap link

81

lap counter

21

give a lap dance

74

toshiba lap top

20

virtual lap dance

63

lap harp

19

lap dog

60

lap swimming

19

to lap dance

57

club dancing lap

18

lap steel guitar

46

lap band procedure

18

banding lap

46

lap swimming pool

18

lap sitting

44

sony lap top

17

lap steel

40

lap top hard drive

17

lap dance picture

37

lap over spankings

17

lap dance pic

35

lap loom

16

lap dance video

33

learn to lap dance

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Lap

Language Translations for "lap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lë në xhiro pas, lëpij (eat, lave, lick), lëpirje (lick), llokoçitje (plash, ripple, squelch), palë (cuff, fly, gathers, hem, lappet, pair, pendant, reef, roll, turn up), kapërcej (bypass, climb over, cross, exceed, fight off, get over, go one better than, hop, leap, leave out, miss out, outdo, overbalance, overcome, overmaster, overpower, span, surmount, transcend, turn, vault), mbështjell (clothe, coil, encase, enfold, enlace, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inlace, involve, mantle, muffle, nuzzle, overcast, reel, reel up, roll, scarf, sheet, throw on, throw out, tuck up, twine, underpin, wind, wind on, wrap, wreathe), mbështjellje (convolution, covering, envelopment, kink, winding), etapë (bench mark, leg, phase, stage), përplasem lehtë, xhiro (gabion, round, turnover), pi me gjuhë (lap up), pirje me gjuhë, prehër, rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, leaguer, pocket, rail, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe), shkelin njëra mbi tjetrën, shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), shtrihem (extend, lie, lie back, lie down, outspread, spread), vë njëra mbi tjetrën, mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مصقل (pithy), ‏مرحلة (degree, grade, juncture, period, phase, point, stage, step), ‏مدى التراكب, ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, twist, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏لعق (lap up, lick, licking, wash), ‏حضن (baby sit, bosom, clasp, cuddle, enfold, kiss, nestle, nurture, stain), ‏سبق منافسه, ‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lappet, plait, plica, queue, recess, tuck, wrap), ‏طوى (double, double back, fold, pleat, replicate, roll up, turn down, wreathe, writhe), ‏الطرف المتراكب, ‏إرتطم (barge into, bump, hit, impinge, stub), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, pucker, replicate, tribute, tuck), ‏ركبتان, ‏راكب (imbricate, one horse, passenger, rider, riding, superimpose), ‏دورة مفردة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

партия (clan, game, match, part, party, side), лоча (swig, swill), лоно (fold), покривам отчасти, пола (skirt), полирам (abrade, brighten up, buff, burnish, face, glaze, gloss, planish, polish, rumble), поли (brim, foot), подгъвам (bend under, bend under tuck in, fold, hem, tuck), долна месеста част (lappet), пасвам (fit), загръщам (enfold, envelop, enwrap, involve, snuggle, tuck, wrap), пляскам (clap, plash, slap, smack, splash), плискане (plash, slosh, spatter, swash, wash), плискам се (dabble, plash, slop about, spatter, swash, wash), изминавам (cover, elapse, log, make, measure, ride), излоквам, изпреварвам (anticipate, forestall, get ahead of, head, outrun, outsail, outstrip, pull ahead), дължина на една намотка, подплата (backing, liner, lining), обиколка на писта, сгъване (folding), свободна платка, слабо питие (slipslop), част (concern, detachment, division, fraction, interest, leg, member, movement, outfit, parcel, part, partition, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rate, section, segment, share, slice, snack, unit), шлифовам (cut, planish, polish, smooth, varnish), шлифовален диск, гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, kink, plication, pocket, pucker, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), лочене, обгръщам (cover, embrace, enfold, enlace, include, wrap), етап (leg, point, round, stadium, stage), нагъване (folding, plications), нагъвам (cockle, corrugate, flex, fold, gobble, punish, put away, ruckle, scoff, tuck away, tuck into, walk into, wolf), навивам (coil, curl, expend, fake, furl, quill, roll, roll up, scroll, set, take up, tuck, tuck up, wind, wind up), намотаване, намотавам (convolve, reel, wind, wind up), надиплям (enfold, fold, kilt, pleat, quill, ruck, ruffle), застъпвам се (intercede, interpose, overlap, plead, wrap), скут, глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

膝部 (LAPS), (lick), (to lick), (all, attentive, circuit, complete, cycle, encircle, every, thoughtful, week). (various references)

   

Czech

  

lalok (dewlap, lobe), okraj (border, brim, brink, edge, end, fringe, margin, periphery, rim, verge, welt), klín (Gore, insert, salience, wedge), fáze (phase, stage), etapa (phase). (various references)

   

Danish

  

overlapning (lap joint, overlap, overlapping, strapped joint), overlap (overlap), fold (fold, furrow, wrinkle), flig (overlap, sliver, spill). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plassen (plash, splash, urinate, wade), klotsen (plash, splash), klapperen (plash, splash), kabbelen (burble, gurgle, murmur, plash, purl, splash). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

plaŭdi (plash, splash). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

smella (clap, click, plash, rattle, splash), skvatla (plash, splash), klappa (plash, splash). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Twist, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Entourage, Environment, Girth, Milieu, Outside, Perimeter, Periphery, Sphere), محل نشوونما, لیس زدن , لبه لباس , حریصانه خوردن (Devour, Gobble, Gull, Gut, Guzzle, Wolf), تاه کردن (Fold, Ply, Ruffe), سجاف (List), سرکشیدن (Guzzle, Quaff, Swill), اغوش (Bosom, Breast, Heart), شلپ شلپ کردن (Whop), دامن لباس (Skirt), باصداچیزی خوردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

loiske (splash), limitys (interlacing, interleaving, overlap), limittyminen (overlap), limittäminen (fanned stacking of letters, overlap, overlapping, overlapping of letters, tiling of letters), latkia, laskos (box-pleat, fold, pleat, tuck), syli (arms, cord, fathom, six feet), ratakierros, kierros (circuit, detour, orbit, revolution, round, turn), helma (hem). (various references)

   

French

  

clapoter. (various references)

   

German

  

schoß (skirt, spindled, vagina, womb), plätschern (babble, bubble, burble, lapping, patter, plash, ripple, splash), klatschen (applaud, blab, clap, go smack, gossip, pitter patter, plash, ripple, slap, slosh, smack, smash, sneak, splash, swat, talk, tattle, tell tales, thwack, to applaud, to chin-wag, to clap), überlappen (interleave, overlap, to interleave, to lap). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γόνατα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ללקק (lick), לקפל (fold, fold up, pleat, tuck), חיק (axil, bosom, heart, pubis), אלומת שחת, חפיה (covering, overlap), ברך (elbow, knee). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

takarás (cloaking, hiding, overlaying, shielding, surface), szárny (arm, fan-tail, flank, flap, flier, pinion, plane, side, van, vane, wing), fedél (cap, cover, lid, roof, roofing), cimpa (Pinna). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tanjak, pangkuan, pangku, menghirup (breathe, inhale). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lembo (border, edge, flapper, hem, margin, skirt, strip), lambire (lick), lappare (lap up, stone), leccata (lick, licking), leccare (lick), avvolgere (befog, cloak, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fold, inclose, muffle, pack, package, reel, roll, shroud, wind, wrap, wrap up), coccolare (canoodle, Cocker, coddle, cosher, cosset, cuddle, mollycoddle, pamper, pet), doppiare (double, dub, round, synchronize), falda (blade, brim, coat rack, flake, flap, flapper, foot, layer, leaf, sheet, slope, stratum, tail), giro (circle, circuit, coil, drive, girth, gyre, I endorse, ramble, revolution, ride, rotation, round, run, screw, slew, slue, spin, stroll, tour, trip, turn, turning, walk), grembo (womb), grinza (crease, Crinkle, fold, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, wrinkle), sovrapposizione (overlap, superimposition), sciabordio (lapping, plash), sovrapporre (arise in addition, be superimposed, overlap, place on, superimpose), tappa (halt, leg, stage, stay, stop), piega (bends, crease, Crinkle, fold, inclines, plait, pleat, ply, tuck, turn, twist, wrinkle), piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, give in, incline, inflect, subdue, tend, tilt, tuck, turn, yield), ricoprimento (bottom splash, covering, curtaining, double skin, dump cover, ingot shell, overlap, overlay, paper plastic overlay, plaster, scab, shell), ricoprire (cover, cover again, cover oneself, encase, fill, hold, lay, overgrow, overlay, plaster, plate, recover, re-cover), sciabordare (swash), sovrapposizione sul ago (overlap). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(knee), ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, ruffle, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping), (Chou, circuit, circumference, surroundings, vicinity). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ラップ (rap, wrap), しゅう (Chou, circuit, circumference, collection, dried meat, dry up, great number, masses, province, sect, state, the people, vicinity, week), ひざ (knee). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(LAPS). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ught (ridge cut at one sweep), sliee (lapping), lant, garrey (bout of work, gallop, impetus, rubber, spell, stint, trick, turn), filley (braid, collapse, corrugate, crease, crinkle, double, double up, entwine, fold, fold up, furl, jackknife, plait, ply, roll up, turn up, wrap), bolgym. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

skvalpe, runde. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aplay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sobreposição (overlap, superposition), regaço, dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, fold, folding, gather, kink, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lepui, lovi cu un pleoscãit, lob (lobe), linge (eat, lick, toady), împãturi (convolve, fold), înfãşura (braid, coil, convolve, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, fold, furl, muffle, pack, parcel, roll, swathe, twine, wind, wrap), înfãşurare de cilindri, înveli (case, cover, encase, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, fleece, mantle, muffle, roof, sheathe, tuck, wrap), înveliş (cap, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cover, crust, dress, envelopment, film, integument, jacket, layer, mantle, shroud, skin), învelitoare (cover, crash, dust cover, envelope, hood, wrapper), şa (saddle), şlefui (abrade, file, furbish, grind, mill, rough, smooth), depãşi cu o rundã, etapã (journey, period, phase, run, stage), face sã se îmbuce, îmbina (arrange, blend, combine, conjoin, connect, entwine, fasten, feather, frame, interfuse, interweave, joint, match, merge, mix, piece, put together, tie, unite), joc (acting, dance, dancing, game, lost motion, pastime, recreation, sport, sporting), suprapune (mix, overlap, superimpose, superpose), pânzã groasã (crash, huckaback), pãturã (bed, blanket, counterpane, cover, lick, section of the people, stratum, wrap), partidã (game, match, party), pleoscãi (splash), poalã (foot, hem, skirt, tail), pulpanã (skirt, tail), sân (bosom, breast, heart, teats, womb), se înfãşura (convolve, fold, furl), genunchi (knee, marrow bone). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заезд, доводить (bring, size, take), плеск волн (play of the waves), плескаться (dabble, paddle, splash, wash), перекрывать (overlap, overlay, re-cover, span, straddling, wrap over), перекрыша, полировать (buff, burnish, furbish, polish, slicks), притир, притирать, дистанция (distance, range), жадно пить, укутывать (bundle up), завертывать (envelop, enwrap, fold, involve, wrap, wrap up), напуск, накрой, нахлестка (overlap), нахлестывать, колени (knees, marrowbones), колено;круг, раунд (round), лакать (guzzle, lap up, swills). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sgùird , sgùirt (the lap), measan (a lapdog, lap-dog, messan). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lokati (drink, lap up), zapljuskivati (pound, slap, splash, wash), zapljuskivanje, srkati (lap up, sip, sup), prestići za ceo krug, preklopiti (fold, turn down), preklop, krug (circle, compass, gyre, ring, round), krilo (ala, fringe, pennon, pinion, wing), etapa (stage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lametada, lamer (lick), lengüetada (lick, licking), lamedura (lick), circuito (circuit, loop, system), faldón (coat tail, gable, shirttail, tail), falda (brisket, skirt, slope), etapa (degree, food ration, leg, phase, progress, stage), estar al nivel de (sustain), envolver (blanket, cocoon, cover, do up, encircle, enfold, envelop, implicate, imply, involve, mantle, muffle, muffle up, pack, pack up, package, paper, parcel, shroud, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie up, whip, wind, wrap, wrap up, wreathe), hacer una vuelta, correr (blow, chase, draw, flow, gallop, go about, go around, go it, go round, hare, hie, hurry, nip, pour, publish, race, run, run along, scour, scud, scurry, scuttle, shoot, slide, stream, travel, zap), arruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, ruffle, rumple, seam, wrinkle), chapaleteo, chapalear, cercar (bar, barrier off, beset, besiege, circle, cut off, encircle, enclose, encompass, fence, hedge, hem in, inclose, invest, obstruct, wall in), beso (kiss, love, osculation, Peck), besar (kiss, lick, osculate, Peck), aventajar (exceed, Excel, outmatch, outstrip, score, surpass, top), doblar a (buckle, sail round, toll), regazo, traslapar (overlap), toque (blast, chime, crux, Flitch, groundsill, jar, knock, stroke, test, touch), tocarse (dab, Flitch, impinge, jar, palp, touch, wing), superposición de un borde sobre otro (overlap), solape (overlap, overthrust, straddle, thrust, thrust fault), solapamiento (overlap, overlapping), fase (leg, light, phase, stage, time), rodillas (knees, marrowbones), traslaparse, recubrimiento (coating, cover, covering, overburden, overlap, overlay, overlay segment, overlay technique, pick, spray deposit, sprayed deposit), pliegue (crease, fold, kink, plait, pleat, plication, pucker, tuck), pata (Drake, duck, f, flat, foot, hoof, leg, pad, paw, peg, strap, tab), traslapo (overlap), vuelta (change, detour, facing, gyration, leg, reprise, return, revolution, round, row, spin, turn, turning, twist, walking), volar en (blast, explode, fly at, lob, set off), solapa (flap, lapel, revers). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

knä (elbow, knee), överlappning (overlap). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เลีย (lick), ห่อหุ้ม (enfold, enwrap), หน้าตัก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

halat (hawser, lanyard, lashing, line, rope), üst üste gelmek (overlap), üstüne koymak (put upon, superimpose, superpose), şapır şupur içmek, şapırdatmak (click, plash, smack), şapırtı (plash, smack, splash), dalga sesi (wash), dizüstü etek, dolamak (cincture, coil, coil up, enlace, enwrap, reel, reel up, rotate, twist, whip, whirl, wind, wrap), örtmek (blanket, canopy, cap, carpet, case, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat, conceal, condone, cope, cover, cover up, encase, enshroud, envelop, hood, incase, robe, screen, shade, sheet, shield, shroud, shut, submerge, wrap), etek (filibeg, foot, skirt), yalayarak içmek, ip (cord, halter, lanyard, rope, string, tether, tightrope, twist), köpek maması, kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, floor, fold, layer, multiple, pile, ply, stair, storey, story), kucak (arms, bosom), oburca yemek (devour, Raven, scoff, stodge), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, twist, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), tur (circuit, round, rounder, tour, touring), tur yapmak (make a tour, tour), yalayıp yutmak (devour, dispatch, gobble, gobble up, punish, wolf, wolf down), etap (leg, stage). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

etek (skirt). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хлебати, коліна, охоплювати (blanket, comprehend, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap), мочка вуха (lobe), загортати (enfold, envelop, enwrap, hap, roll up, wrap), загинати (turn up), пола (flapper, skirt), поділ (break up, differentiation, divide, division, fission, parceling, parcelling), партія гри. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vạt áo (lappet), cái liềm (reaping-hook). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

lleibio (lick), lapio (wrap), arffed. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lap

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

dug, ur. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

alloes, gremio, gremium, sinu, sinum, sinus. (various references)

Old English450-1100

bearm. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

lappe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Lap

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 16, Verse 33
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEiV kolpouV epercetai panta toiV adikoiV para de kuriou panta ta dikaia
Latin405VulgateSortes mittuntur in sinu sed a Domino temperantur
Middle English1395WyclifLotis ben put in to the bosum; but of the Lord thei ben temprid.
Jacobean English1611King JamesThe lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Victorian English1833WebsterThe lot is cast into the lap: but the whole disposing of it is from the LORD.
Basic English1964OgdenA thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.