LAP

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2. isim An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
3. isim The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
4. isim A place of rearing and fostering.
5. isim The upper legs of a seated person.

   “The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.”

6. isim The female pudenda.
7. isim A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
8. fiil To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

   “Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.”

9. fiil To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

   “to lap his head on lady's breast”

10. fiil To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.

    “to lap a piece of cloth”

11. fiil to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up

    “to lap a bandage around a finger”

12. fiil to envelop, enfold

    “lapped in luxury”

13. fiil to wind around
14. fiil To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.

    “One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.”

15. fiil To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
16. fiil To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.

    “The cloth laps back.”

17. fiil To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
18. fiil To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
19. isim The act or process of lapping.
20. isim That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.

    “the lap of a board”

21. isim The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.

    “The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.”

22. isim 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 below).
23. isim One circuit around a race track.

    “to run twenty laps”

24. isim The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.

    “to swim two laps”

25. isim 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.
26. isim A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
27. isim A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
28. fiil To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

    “Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.”

29. fiil To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

    “I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.”

30. isim The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.

    “With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]”