Lap
[læp]
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:琳达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
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
解釋/意思:
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.
乔迪校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
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.
丹尼校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
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.
迪莉娅編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It seemed a long while--she did not know how long--before she heard Celia saying, That will do, nurse; he will be quiet on my lap now. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Somewhat confounded, Miss Wren parried the pleasantry, and sat down in a corner behind the door, with her basket in her lap. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The old lap-welded barrel gave way to the barrel drilled from solid steel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Pray sit down, said Dorothea, crossing her hands on her lap; I am very glad you were here. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You are travelling several laps ahead of me, my friend, I interrupted. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I'm afraid we'd have him right here in our laps. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- However, the rain soon cooled them down again: they lapped a drop of water each, and crept back into their kennels. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- When he slept he seemed to crouch down in the bed, lapped up in his own strength, that yet was hollow. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Finally I felt the lapping waters about my feet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He was afraid that one day he would break down and be a purely meaningless babble lapping round a darkness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Jo could not speak, and for several minutes there was no sound but the sigh of the wind and the lapping of the tide. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She was afraid lest she should even become sleepily deadened into forgetfulness of anything beyond the life which was lapping her round with luxury. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
克莱奥校對