lap

Betekenis (English)

Noun

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

Verb

1. To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
2. To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

Verb

1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
2. to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
3. to envelop, enfold
4. to wind around
5. To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
6. To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
7. To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
8. To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
9. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.

Verb

1. To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
2. To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

Adj

Clipping of laparoscopic.

Synonyms

lick

overlap

bosom

splash

thigh

lap up

flap

plash

knee

circuit

beat

circle

⭕

fold

skirt

lap covering

hem

knees

coil

swoosh

swosh

roll

round

swish

ply

sip

hemline

twine

turn

convulate

lick in

lick up

spiral

taste

plait

entwine

drink

🥤

loop

➿

swash

wash

🧽

crotch

lave

revolution

jointing

journey

lapping

leaf

leaflet

leg

🦵

legs

lip

loch

milling

paddle

perambulation

pestle

polish

🇵🇱

popple

pucker

quaff

ravine

ripple

seat

💺

sinus

skirting

skive

slurp

spliced

surge

surroundings

tail

thighs

throw

tights

train

🚋

trick

trituration

vagina

valve

vicinity

waist

wrinkle

extend over

grind on

lap joint

one full year

once around

foldover

intermont

pesting

reseat

grind in

fthm

upper leg

lapping sound

lapped finishing

diamond-wheel

tripsis

overlapping part

amount of overlap

amount of lap

seat grinding

lapping finish

stop

🛑

haling place

abrading

abrasion

apron

armful

baffle

basin

bay

bolt

break

breast

burden

chest

circumference

clap

👏

clapper

🎬

cord

corrugation

cover

crease

crimp

dabble

dash

💨

double

encircling

extension

fathom

folding

frame

furl

gore

gorge

grind

grinding

groin

gulf

gusset

halt

haunch

heart

❤️

hip

imbibe

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/læp/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from Middle English: lappe

Inherited from Old English: læppa

Cognate with Nederlands: lap

Cognate with Duits: Lappen

Cognate with Yslands: leppur

Inherited from Middle English: lappen

Inherited from Old English: *wlappan

Cognate with Middle Dutch: lappen

Cognate with Deens: vravle

Inherited from Old English: lapian

Cognate with Old High German: laffen

Cognate with Old Norse: lepja

Cognate with Deens: labe

Cognate with Old Saxon: lepil

Cognate with Duits: Löffel

Cognate with Latyn: lambo

Cognate with Frans: lamper

Cognate with Deens: leffe

Cognate with Duits: läffeln

In summary

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).