Look up: lap

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   lap
   A general term used to designate wide sheets of loosely matted cotton, formed on such textile machines as the BREAKER PICKER, FINISHER PICKER, RIBBON LAPPER, and SLIVER LAPPER.
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   lap
   [n] - an area of control or responsibility 2. [n] - the upper side of the thighs of a seated person 3. [n] - the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs 4. [n] - a flap that lies over another part 5. [n] - movement once around a course 6. [v] - lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another 7. [v] - move with or make or cause to move with or make a whistling or hissing sound, as of liquids 8. [v] - take up with the tongue
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   LAP
   Linux Application Platform
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   LAP
   Link Access Protocol, typically designation of the link layer protocol in a LAN, WAN, or mobile network.
   Found on http://www.flying-boat.co.uk/glossary/
   
   
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   Lap
   A tool made of soft metal and charged with fine abrasives for precision finishing of metal surfaces.
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   LAP
   Local Area Plan
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   Lap
   Slight overlapping of two printed colours to ensure there is no fault in registration. More commonly referred to as Trap, Trapping.
   Found on http://www.britishprint.com/tw/glossary.
   
   
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   LAP
   Link Access Protocol.
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   LAP
   LISP Assembly Program. The assembly language embedded into early Lisp. LAP was also used by the Liar compiler for MIT Scheme and MACLISP. [Sammet 1969, p. 597]. (1994-11-01)
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    Lap
    A thick sheet of fibres.
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    lap
    (1) (General) A sheet of fibres or cloth wrapped round a core with specific applications in different sections of the industry, e.g. ,sheets of fibre wound on rollers or round endless aprons to facilitate transfer from one process to the next; (2) (Flax) An arrangement of the fibre strands in scutched flax pieced out for hackling or in pieces of hackled flax to facilitate their removal as separate...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
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    Lap
    To extend one material partially over another; also, the distance so extended.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/
    
    
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    Lap
    Lap noun [ Middle English lappe , Anglo-Saxon læppa ; akin to Dutch lap patch, piece, German lappen , Old High German lappa , Danish lap , Swedish lapp .] 1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer. 2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. Chaucer. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/13
    
    
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    Lap
    Lap transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lapped ; present participle & verbal noun Lapping .] 1. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. « To lap his head on lady's breast.» Praed. 2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap , 10.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/13
    
    
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    Lap
    Lap transitive verb [ Middle English lappen to fold (see Lap , noun ); confer also Middle English wlappen , perhaps another form of wrappen , E, wrap .] 1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. 2. To wrap or wind around something. « About the paper . . . I lapped ...
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    Lap
    Lap intransitive verb 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 . « The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay.» Grew.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/13
    
    
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    Lap
    Lap intransitive verb [ Middle English lappen , lapen , Anglo-Saxon lapian ; akin to LG. lappen , Old High German laffan , Icelandic lepja , Danish lade , Swedish läppja , Latin lambere ; confer Greek ..., W. llepio . Confer Lambent .] 1. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up ...
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    Lap
    Lap transitive verb To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. « They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk.» Shak.
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    Lap
    Lap noun 1. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap . 2. The sound of lapping.
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    lap
    1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. ... 2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. 'If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.' (Fuller) ... 3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figurativ ...
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    lap
    overlap noun a flap that lies over another part; `the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches`
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    lap
    noun the upper side of the thighs of a seated person; `he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap`
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    lap
    noun an area of control or responsibility; `the job fell right in my lap`
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    lap
    swish verb move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; `The bubbles swoshed around in the glass`; `The curtain swooshed open`
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    lap
    lap up verb take up with the tongue; `The cat lapped up the milk`; `the cub licked the milk from its mother`s breast`
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