lap
/læp/ verb C2- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something. · to lap a piece of cloth
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up · to lap a bandage around a finger
- to envelop, enfold · lapped in luxury
- to wind around
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another. · One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
- To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap. · The cloth laps back.· The boats lap; the edges lap.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
He/she/it laps · Past lapped · Past participle lapped · -ing form lapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- lap
- He/she/it
- laps
- Past
- lapped
- Past participle
- lapped
- -ing form
- lapping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“My love,” said the marquise, “attend to your doves, your lap-dogs, and embroidery, but do not meddle with what you do not understand.
So they picked up Toto and put the dog in Dorothy’s lap, and then they made a chair with their hands for the seat and their arms for the arms and carried the sleeping girl between them through the flowers.
Soon afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging his tail as if to say, “I am a suppliant, and seek your aid.” The Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out; thus relieved of his pain, the Lion returned into the forest.
But when the Lion was released from his cage, he recognized the Shepherd as the man who healed him, and instead of attacking him, approached and placed his foot upon his lap.
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