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Lap vs. Wrap — What's the Difference?

Lap vs. Wrap — What's the Difference?

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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.

Wrap

Cover or enclose in paper or soft material
Leonora wrapped herself in a large white bath towel
He wrapped up the Christmas presents

Lap

The front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person.

Wrap

Cause (a word or unit of text) to be carried over to a new line automatically as the margin is reached, or to fit around embedded features such as pictures
Words are wrapped to the next line if they are too long
The program can automatically wrap text around irregularly shaped graphics

Lap

The portion of a garment that covers the lap.
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Wrap

Finish filming or recording
We wrapped on schedule three days later

Lap

A hanging or flaplike part, especially of a garment.

Wrap

A loose outer garment or piece of material
Beach wraps

Lap

An area of responsibility, interest, or control
An opportunity that dropped in his lap.

Wrap

The end of a session of filming or recording
Right, it's a wrap

Lap

A part that overlaps.

Wrap

A tortilla wrapped around a cold filling, eaten as a sandwich.

Lap

The amount by which one part overlaps another.

Wrap

To arrange or fold (something) about as cover or protection
She wrapped her fur coat closely about herself.

Lap

One complete round or circuit, especially of a racetrack.

Wrap

To cover, envelop, or encase, as by folding or coiling something about
Wrapped my head in a scarf.

Lap

One complete length of a straight course, as of a swimming pool.

Wrap

To enclose, especially in paper, and fasten
Wrap a package.
Wrapped up the peelings.

Lap

A segment or stage, as of a trip.

Wrap

To clasp, fold, or coil about something
She wrapped her arms about his neck.

Lap

A length, as of rope, required to make one complete turn around something.

Wrap

To move (text that will not fit on a line) automatically to the following line.

Lap

The act of lapping or encircling.

Wrap

To envelop and obscure
Fog wrapped the city.

Lap

A continuous band or layer of cotton, flax, or other fiber.

Wrap

To surround or involve in a specified quality or atmosphere
The plan was wrapped in secrecy.

Lap

A wheel, disk, or slab of leather or metal, either stationary or rotating, used for polishing and smoothing.

Wrap

To engross
She was wrapped in thought.

Lap

The act or an instance of lapping.

Wrap

To coil or twist about or around something
The flag wrapped around the pole.

Lap

The amount taken in by lapping.

Wrap

To be moved automatically to the following line upon reaching a margin. Used of text.

Lap

The sound of lapping.

Wrap

To put on warm clothing. Usually used with up.

Lap

A watery food or drink.

Wrap

To conclude filming
The movie is scheduled to wrap next week.

Lap

To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another
Lapped the roof tiles so that water would run off.

Wrap

A garment to be wrapped or folded about a person, especially an outer garment such as a robe, cloak, shawl, or coat.

Lap

To lie partly over or on
Each shingle lapping the next.
Shadows that lapped the wall.

Wrap

A blanket.

Lap

To fold (something) over onto itself
A cloth edge that had been lapped and sewn to make a hem.

Wrap

A wrapping or wrapper.

Lap

To wrap or wind around (something); encircle.

Wrap

A flatbread, such as a tortilla or lavash, rolled around a filling. Also called roll-up.

Lap

To envelop in something; swathe
Models who were lapped in expensive furs.

Wrap

The completion of filming on a movie.

Lap

To join (pieces, as of wood) by means of a scarf or lap joint.

Wrap

(transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.

Lap

(Sports) To get ahead of (an opponent) in a race by one or more complete circuits of the course, as in running, or by two or more lengths of a pool in swimming.

Wrap

(transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
A snake wraps itself around its prey.

Lap

To convert (cotton or other fibers) into a sheet or layer.

Wrap

(figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.

Lap

To polish (a surface) until smooth.

Wrap

To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)

Lap

To hone (two mating parts) against each other until closely fitted.

Wrap

(lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.

Lap

To lie partly on or over something; overlap.

Wrap

To make functionality available through a software wrapper.

Lap

To form a lap or fold.

Wrap

(transitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

Lap

To wind around or enfold something.

Wrap

Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.

Lap

To take in (a liquid or food) by lifting it with the tongue.

Wrap

A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.

Lap

To wash or slap against with soft liquid sounds
Waves lapping the side of the boat.

Wrap

An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.

Lap

To take in a liquid or food with the tongue.

Wrap

A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.

Lap

To wash against something with soft liquid sounds.

Wrap

(entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.

Lap

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

Wrap

A wraparound mortgage.

Lap

An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

Wrap

A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.

Lap

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

Wrap

To snatch up; transport; - chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves.

Lap

(figuratively) a place of rearing and fostering

Wrap

To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
Then cometh Simon Peter, . . . and seeth . . . the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Lap

The upper legs of a seated person.
The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.

Wrap

To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; - often with up.
I . . . wrapt in mistOf midnight vapor, glide obscure.

Lap

The female pudenda.

Wrap

To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
Wise poets that wrap truth in tales.
Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter.
Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity.

Lap

(construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

Wrap

A wrapper; - often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.

Lap

The act or process of lapping.

Wrap

Cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

Lap

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

Wrap

A sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

Lap

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.

Wrap

The covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

Lap

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).

Wrap

Arrange or fold as a cover or protection;
Wrap the baby before taking her out
Wrap the present

Lap

(sports) One circuit around a race track.
To run twenty laps
To drive the fastest lap in qualifying
To win by three laps

Wrap

Wrap or coil around;
Roll your hair around your finger
Twine the thread around the spool

Lap

(swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
To swim two laps

Wrap

Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering;
Fog enveloped the house

Lap

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.

Lap

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

Lap

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.

Lap

The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.

Lap

Liquor; alcoholic drink.

Lap

(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

Lap

(transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.

Lap

(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
To lap a piece of cloth

Lap

(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
To lap a bandage around a finger

Lap

(transitive) to envelop, enfold
Lapped in luxury

Lap

(intransitive) to wind around

Lap

(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.

Lap

(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.

Lap

(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.

Lap

To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.

Lap

To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.

Lap

(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.

Lap

To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

Lap

Clipping of laparoscopic

Lap

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

Lap

An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

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).

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

Lap

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.

Lap

The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.

Lap

The sound of lapping.

Lap

To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To lap his head on lady's breast.

Lap

To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.

Lap

To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.

Lap

To wrap or wind around something.
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.

Lap

To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.

Lap

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.

Lap

To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

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.

Lap

The upper side of the thighs of a seated person;
He picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap

Lap

An area of control or responsibility;
The job fell right in my lap

Lap

The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs;
His lap was covered with food stains

Lap

A flap that lies over another part;
The lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches

Lap

Movement once around a course;
He drove an extra lap just for insurance

Lap

Touching with the tongue;
The dog's laps were warm and wet

Lap

Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another

Lap

Pass the tongue over;
The dog licked her hand

Lap

Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;
The bubbles swoshed around in the glass
The curtain swooshed open

Lap

Take up with the tongue;
The cat lapped up the milk
The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast

Lap

Wash or flow against;
The waves laved the shore

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