lap

• movement once around a course
• To infold
• the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
• an area of control or responsibility
• the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs
• a flap that lies over another part
• touching with the tongue
• lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
• pass the tongue over
• move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
• take up with the tongue
• wash or flow against
• The loose part of a coat
• An edge
• The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down
• That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another
• 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
• The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else
• One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile
• In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game
• A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine
• 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
• To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap
• To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc
• To fold
• To wrap or wind around something
• To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it
• To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working
• To be turned or folded
• To take up drink or food with the tongue
• To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue
• To take into the mouth with the tongue
• The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue
• The sound of lapping
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Hungary in Bacs-Kiskun
• Residential area (city, town, village) in India in Arunachal Pradesh
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Turkey in Amasya
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Maryland

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