Hap vs. Lap
Hapnoun
Happenings; events; goings-on.
Lapnoun
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Hapnoun
(archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
Lapnoun
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
Hapnoun
A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
Lapnoun
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered
Hapnoun
Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.
Lapnoun
(figuratively) a place of rearing and fostering
Hapverb
To happen; to befall; to chance.
Lapnoun
The upper legs of a seated person.
‘The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.’;
Hapverb
To happen to.
Lapnoun
The female pudenda.
Hapverb
(dialect) To wrap, clothe.
Lapnoun
(construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Hapverb
To clothe; to wrap.
‘The surgeon happed her up carefully.’;
Lapnoun
The act or process of lapping.
Hapverb
To happen; to befall; to chance.
‘Sends word of all that haps in Tyre.’;
Lapnoun
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
‘the lap of a board’;
Hapnoun
A cloak or plaid.
Lapnoun
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
‘The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.’;
Hapnoun
That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.
‘Whether art it was or heedless hap.’; ‘Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that buildTheir hopes on haps.’; ‘Loving goes by haps:Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’;
Lapnoun
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 below).
Hapnoun
an accidental happening;
‘he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life’;
Lapnoun
(sports) One circuit around a race track, or one traversal down and then back the length of a pool
‘to run twenty laps’; ‘to win by three laps’; ‘swim two laps’;
Hapverb
come to pass;
‘What is happening?’; ‘The meeting took place off without an incidence’; ‘Nothing occurred that seemed important’;
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lapnoun
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
Lapverb
(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Lapverb
(transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
Lapverb
(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
‘to lap a piece of cloth’;
Lapverb
(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
‘to lap a bandage around a finger’;
Lapverb
(transitive) to envelop, enfold
‘lapped in luxury’;
Lapverb
(intransitive) to wind around
Lapverb
(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
‘One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.’;
Lapverb
(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
Lapverb
(intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
‘The cloth laps back.’; ‘The boats lap; the edges lap.’;
Lapverb
(transitive) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
Lapverb
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
Lapverb
(ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
‘Don't lap your soup like that, you look like a dog.’;
Lapverb
To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
Lapnoun
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lapnoun
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
‘If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.’;
Lapnoun
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.
‘Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps.’;
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
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).
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lapnoun
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.
Lapnoun
The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
Lapnoun
The sound of lapping.
Lapverb
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
‘To lap his head on lady's breast.’;
Lapverb
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lapverb
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
Lapverb
To wrap or wind around something.
‘About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.’;
Lapverb
To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
‘Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.’;
Lapverb
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.
Lapverb
To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
Lapverb
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.’;
Lapverb
To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
‘The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.’;
Lapverb
To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
‘I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,And the wild water lapping on the crag.’;
Lapverb
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.’;
Lapnoun
the upper side of the thighs of a seated person;
‘he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap’;
Lapnoun
an area of control or responsibility;
‘the job fell right in my lap’;
Lapnoun
the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs;
‘his lap was covered with food stains’;
Lapnoun
a flap that lies over another part;
‘the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches’;
Lapnoun
movement once around a course;
‘he drove an extra lap just for insurance’;
Lapnoun
touching with the tongue;
‘the dog's laps were warm and wet’;
Lapverb
lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
Lapverb
pass the tongue over;
‘the dog licked her hand’;
Lapverb
move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;
‘The bubbles swoshed around in the glass’; ‘The curtain swooshed open’;
Lapverb
take up with the tongue;
‘The cat lapped up the milk’; ‘the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast’;
Lapverb
wash or flow against;
‘the waves laved the shore’;
Lap
A lap is a surface (usually horizontal) created between the knee and hips of a biped when it is in a seated or lying down position. The lap of a parent or loved one is seen as a physically and psychologically comfortable place for a child to sit.In some countries where Christmas is celebrated, it has been a tradition for children to sit on the lap of a person dressed as Santa Claus to tell Santa what they want for Christmas, and have their picture taken, but this practice has since been questioned in some of these countries, where this sort of contact between children and unfamiliar adults raises concerns.Among adults, a person sitting on the lap of another usually indicates an intimate or romantic relationship between the two; this is a factor in the erotic activity in strip clubs known as a lap dance, where one person straddles the lap of the other and gyrates their lower extremities in a provocative manner.A Lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar played in a sitting position with the instrument placed horizontally across the player's knees.
