lap

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

unlap

Synonyms

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

Translations

Schoß

regazo

colo

schoot

grembo

plassen

giron

klotsen

klapperen

lamer

kabbelen

laper

plonzen

lappare

plätschern

Pronounced as (IPA)

/læp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lappe

Inherited from Old English: læppa

Cognate with Dutch: lap

Cognate with German: Lappen

Cognate with Icelandic: leppur

Inherited from Middle English: lappen

Inherited from Old English: *wlappan

Cognate with Middle Dutch: lappen

Cognate with Danish: vravle

Inherited from Old English: lapian

Cognate with Old High German: laffen

Cognate with Old Norse: lepja

Cognate with Danish: labe

Cognate with Old Saxon: lepil

Cognate with German: Löffel

Cognate with Latin: lambo

Cognate with French: lamper

Cognate with Danish: leffe

Cognate with German: 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”).