Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of licking up with the tongue.
- n. The motion and sound of rippling water.
- n. The act of wrapping or folding.
- n. The act of superimposing the margin of a piece of any material upon the margin of another piece, as in making a lap-joint.
- n. In textile manuf., the process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material suitable for presentation or delivery to the carding-machine. In cotton-manufacture the laps are formed by compacting the cotton upon rollers, whence the fleece is detached after it has acquired the proper thickness. Laps are also formed by uniting slivers, as in the preparation of tow for spinning.
- n. In ordnance, a process for slightly increasing the bore of a rifled gun by wearing away the lands, or metal between the rifle-grooves.
- n. In metal-working, the smoothing of metal surfaces by rubbing them with a plate of metal rendered abrasive by the application of oil and powdered corundum, or by the application of a revolving disk similarly prepared.
- n. That which is lapped; a flap or pendant.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of lap.
- n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Examples
“Iceland, Ireland ... yes, they will mention those, and the fact is that when both of those countries are back in the saddle, playign their full role in a Europe that pays attention to them, and getting prosperous and creative once again, Wales will still be the butt-end of the UK lapping from the toilet bowl of ill-health, high unemployment, cultural marginalisation and disgraceful poverty.”
“The skirt is kind of lapping at the boobs of the top like waves.”
“Francis referred to his spirit as being like a liquid (like water) and asked God to drink him up - 'lapping' him in - not with the idea of being destroyed, but of being relieved from the sensual (sinful) drive to put himself (or some other thing) on the throne of his heart.”
“It was kind of -- you couldn't say sobbing, exactly, you know, "heaving in sobs," but there was a kind of, I would call it, surging thing going on, a kind of lapping thing, like it was hurling itself against the garage, in sorrow or -- it was actually kind of horrible.”
“You see a car wash where the water is there kind of lapping up against the side of the buildings, some convenience stores.”
“You're kind of lapping the NVA and Vet Corp defection.”
“lapping" over large portions of protective booms around pelican rookeries in Barataria”
“So it has been a very easy-going lapping of the field.”
The Guardian: US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy hailed as being 'better than Tiger Woods'
“Samson crouched on the hall table, his furry head deep in the ice cream container, lapping it up as fast as he could.”
“In March, Cain won a presidential straw poll in Des Moines, lapping a field that featured populist firebrands like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.”
The Huffington Post: Herman Cain Sees Steady Rise In Support Ahead Of 2012
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lapping’.
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Zorba
ectoplasm, incorporeal, balderdash, raucous, trenchant, furrowed, half-baked, riveted, voracious, tassel, lignite, diaphonous and 46 more...
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alexz arctic sea expeditions - overlapped ice layers. from the Sailors Word Book http://goo.gl/ZIhkR
Jan 18, 2013