Lap

[læp]

解释:

(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.) take up with the tongue; 'The cat lapped up the milk'; 'the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast'.

(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.

校对:琳达--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

(n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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).

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.

(v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.

(n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.

(n.) To wrap or wind around something.

(n.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.

(v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.

(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.

(n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.

(n.) The sound of lapping.

整理:贾丝廷

同义词及近义词:

v. a. [1]. Fold, turn over, lay over.[2]. Wrap, cover, twist round.[3]. Lick, lick up, take up with the tongue.

v. n. Be folded over, be laid over.

邦妮整理

解释:

n. the loose or overhanging flap of anything: the part of a substance extending over or partly over the rear of another or the extent of such extension: the part of the clothes lying on the knees when a person sits down: the part of the body thus covered esp. with reference to nursing &c.: a fold: a course or round of the track as in foot-racing &c.: at euchre &c. a carrying over to the next game of a surplus of points from the last: the space over which a steam-engine slide-valve travels after the closing of the steam-passage to or from the cylinder: a rotating disc of lead copper leather &c. charged with an abrasive powder used in cutting gems &c.—v.t. to lay over or on.—v.i. to be spread on or over: to be turned over or upon.—ns. Lap′-board a flat wide board resting on the lap used by tailors and seamstresses; Lap′-dog a small dog fondled in the lap: a pet dog; Lap′ful as much as fills a lap.—adj. Lap′-joint′ed having joints formed by overlapping edges.—ns. Lap′-stone a stone which shoemakers hold in the lap to hammer leather on; Lap′-streak a clinker-built boat—also adj.; Lap′work work containing lap-joints.

v.t. to lick up with the tongue: to wash or flow against.—v.i. to drink by licking up a liquid: to make a sound of such a kind:—pr.p. lap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. lapped.—n. a motion or sound like lapping.

v.t. to wrap fold involve.—ns. Lap′per one who wraps or folds: in cotton manufacturing a machine which compacts the scutched cotton into a fleece upon the surface of a roller called a lap-roller; Lap′ping the process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine: the rubbing or polishing of a metal surface: the process of rubbing away the lands or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun to increase the bore.

乔迪校对

娱乐性解释:

To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security from vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding a person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism. To see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with humiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap, she will be endangered by a seductive enemy.

丹尼校对

娱乐性解释:

n. One of the most important organs of the female system—an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.

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