lap

Signification (Anglais)

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. (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
5. The upper legs of a seated person.
6. (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
7. A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

Verb

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
2. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
3. (transitive) to envelop, enfold
4. (intransitive) to wind around
5. (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
6. (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
7. (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
8. (transitive) 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. (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
2. (intransitive) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

Adj

Clipping of laparoscopic.

Concepts

giron

sein

laper

clapoter

barboter

tour

lécher

genou

genoux

révolution

rôder

entre-jambes

pan

aine

année complète

cercle

⭕

chevaucher

clapotis

côté

doubler

envelopper

étape

laver

🧽

Opposé de

unlap

Synonymes

lick

overlap

bosom

splash

thigh

flap

lap up

knee

circuit

plash

skirt

beat

lap covering

fold

hem

circle

⭕

spiral

twine

lick in

turn

wash

🧽

swosh

swash

swoosh

convulate

crotch

sip

swish

roll

drink

🥤

ply

round

taste

lave

lick up

loop

➿

hemline

entwine

plait

knees

coil

revolution

double

chest

dash

💨

dabble

burden

basin

crimp

breast

Traductions

Schoß

regazo

colo

schoot

plassen

grembo

lamer

klotsen

kabbelen

klapperen

lappare

giro

plätschern

tappa

plonzen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/læp/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: lappe

Hérité de ancien anglais: læppa

Appartenant à néerlandais: lap

Appartenant à allemand: Lappen

Appartenant à islandais: leppur

Hérité de moyen anglais: lappen

Hérité de ancien anglais: *wlappan

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: lappen

Appartenant à danois: vravle

Hérité de ancien anglais: lapian

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: laffen

Appartenant à vieux norrois: lepja

Appartenant à danois: labe

Appartenant à Old Saxon: lepil

Appartenant à allemand: Löffel

Appartenant à latin: lambo

Appartenant à français: lamper

Appartenant à danois: leffe

Appartenant à allemand: 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”).