lap
41lap — 1 noun 1 LEGS (C) the upper part of your legs when you are sitting down: Come and sit on my lap, Ginny. 2 RACE (C) one journey around or along a running track, race course etc: Hill finished a lap ahead of his team mate. | do/run/swim a lap: Come …
42lap — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun circuit ADJECTIVE ▪ first, opening (BrE) ▪ final, last ▪ victory ▪ I skated a victory lap around the rink …
43lap — I. /læp / (say lap) noun 1. the part of the clothing that lies on the front portion of the body from the waist to the knees when one sits. 2. this portion of the body, especially as the place in or on which something is held or a child is nursed …
44lap — I n. complete circuit around a track 1) on a lap (they are on the last lap) part of the body from the knees to waist of a sitting person 2) in, on smb. s lap (the little girl sat in her mother s lap) 3) (misc.) in the lap of the gods ( with an… …
45lap — {{11}}lap (n.) O.E. læppa (pl. læppan) skirt or flap of a garment, from P.Gmc. *lapp (Cf. O.Fris. lappa, O.S. lappo, M.Du. lappe, Du. lap, O.H.G. lappa, Ger. Lappen rag, shred, O.N. leppr patch, rag ), from PIE root * …
46Lap — This article concerns the area at the top of a person s legs; for other similarly named articles, see Lap (disambiguation). A lap is a surface created between the knee and hips of a bipedal being when it is in a seated position. A lap only exists …
47lap — 01. Our old cat used to like to sit on my [lap] while I read in the evenings. 02. She burnt her thighs when she accidentally dropped her coffee in her [lap] while driving. 03. She waited on the bench with her hands in her [lap]. 04. We are now… …
48lap — I lap 1. lap sb., pen, per, perne (lille stykke papir, stof e.l., hudflig); sætte en lap på; en lap papir II lap 2. lap sb., pen, per, perne (ÆLDRE same), i sms. lap el. lappe , fx lap(pe)pige …
49lap — English now has three distinct words lap, but probably two of them are ultimately related. Lap ‘upper legs of a seated person’ [OE] originally meant ‘flap of a garment’, and it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic source which also produced German …
50lap — lap1 noun 1》 the flat area between the waist and knees of a seated person. 2》 archaic a hanging flap on a garment or a saddle. Phrases fall (or drop) into someone s lap be acquired by or happen to someone without any effort. in someone s lap as… …
