Laps vs. Lapse — What's the Difference?

Laps is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.

A brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement

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

An interval or passage of time

The portion of a garment that covers the lap.

(of a right, privilege, or agreement) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire

A hanging or flaplike part, especially of a garment.

Pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition)

An area of responsibility, interest, or control

To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct

A part that overlaps.

To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way

The amount by which one part overlaps another.

To pass gradually or smoothly; slip

One complete round or circuit, especially of a racetrack.

To come to an end, especially gradually or temporarily

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

To be no longer valid or active; expire

A segment or stage, as of a trip.

(Law) To cease to be available as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility. Used of a right or privilege.

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

To go by; elapse

The act of lapping or encircling.

To allow to lapse.

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

A usually minor or temporary failure; a slip

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

A deterioration or decline

The act or an instance of lapping.

A moral fall

The amount taken in by lapping.

A break in continuity; a pause

The sound of lapping.

A period of time; an interval

A watery food or drink.

(Law) The termination of a right or privilege as a result of expiration, disuse, or impossibility.

To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another

A temporary failure; a slip.

To lie partly over or on

A decline or fall in standards.

To fold (something) over onto itself

A pause in continuity.

To wrap or wind around (something); encircle.

An interval of time between events.

To envelop in something; swathe

A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.

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

(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.

(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.

(legal) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.

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

(theology) A fall or apostasy.

To polish (a surface) until smooth.

(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.

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

(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.

To lie partly on or over something; overlap.

To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.

To form a lap or fold.

(intransitive) To become void.

To wind around or enfold something.

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.

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

A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; - restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.

To wash or slap against with soft liquid sounds

A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

To take in a liquid or food with the tongue.

The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.

To wash against something with soft liquid sounds.

A fall or apostasy.

Plural of lap

To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; - mostly restricted to figurative uses.

To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.

To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.

A mistake resulting from inattention

A break or intermission in the occurrence of something;

A failure to maintain a higher state

Pass into a specified state or condition;

End, at least for a long time;

Drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards

Go back to bad behavior;

Let slip;

Pass by;