O que (quem) é LAP - definição

ANATOMICAL FEATURE

LAP

CHEMICAL COMPOUND

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)

lap

CHEMICAL COMPOUND

LaP

(laps, lapping, lapped)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

If you have something on your lap when you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body.

She waited quietly with her hands in her lap...

Hugh glanced at the child on her mother's lap.

N-COUNT: poss N

In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone round a course once.

...that last lap of the race...

On lap two, Baker edged forward.

N-COUNT: usu ord/adj N, N num

In a race, if you lap another competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap.

He was caught out while lapping a slower rider.

VERB: V n

A lap of a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop.

I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey.

= leg

N-COUNT: N of n, ord/adj N

When water laps against something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound. (WRITTEN)

...the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse...

The building was right on the river and the water lapped the walls.

VERB: V prep/adv, V n

• lapping

The only sound was the lapping of the waves.

N-UNCOUNT: the N of n

When an animal laps a drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth.

The cat lapped milk from a dish.

VERB: V n

•

Lap up means the same as lap
.

She poured some water into a plastic bowl. Faust, her Great Dane, lapped it up with relish.

PHRASAL VERB: V n P

If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.

They had to stop the operation, so at that stage my life was in the lap of the gods.

PHRASE: v-link PHR

lap

CHEMICAL COMPOUND

LaP

complete circuit around a track

1) on a lap (they are on the last lap)

part of the body from the knees to waist of a sitting person

2) in, on smb.'s lap (the little girl sat in her mother's lap)

3) (misc.) in the lap of the gods ('with an uncertain future')

v. (d; intr.) to lap against (the waves lapped against the sides of the boat)

Wikipédia

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. The lap can be a useful surface for carrying out tasks when a table is not available. The laptop computer was so named because it was seen as being able to be used on the user's lap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap

Exemplos de pronúncia para LAP