lap
lap is a 3-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- noun. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- noun. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
- noun. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
- noun. 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 Outside lap (below).
- noun. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
- noun. One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- noun. A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
- transitive verb. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- transitive verb. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
- noun. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
- noun. To wrap or wind around something.
- noun. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- noun. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
- noun. To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
- intransitive verb. To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
- intransitive verb. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
- intransitive verb. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
- transitive verb. To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- noun. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
- noun. The sound of lapping.
- noun. touching with the tongue
"the dog's laps were warm and wet"
- noun. movement once around a course
"he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
- noun. a flap that lies over another part
"the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"
- noun. the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs
"his lap was covered with food stains"
- noun. the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
"he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"
- noun. an area of control or responsibility
"the job fell right in my lap"
- verb. wash or flow against
"the waves laved the shore"
- verb. take up with the tongue
"The cat lapped up the milk"
"the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
- verb. pass the tongue over
"the dog licked her hand"
- verb. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
"The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"
"The curtain swooshed open"
- verb. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
Synonyms
lick, circle, circuit, overlap, lave, wash, swish, swoosh, swosh
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lap:
Common word forms
laps, lapful, lapped, lapper, lapping
Words from these letters
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