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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 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.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, but a study by State University of New York researchers found that heat generated from laptops can increase the temperature of the lap of male users when balancing the computer on their lap, potentially putting sperm count at risk. The study, which included roughly two dozen men between the ages of 21 and 35, found that the sitting position required to balance a laptop can increase scrotum temperature by as much as 2.1 °C (4 °F). A later 2010 study of 29 males published in Fertility and Sterility found that men who kept their laptops on their laps experienced scrotal hyperthermia (overheating) in which their scrotal temperatures increased by up to 2.0 °C (4 °F). The resulting heat increase, which could not be offset by a laptop cushion, may increase male infertility.
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Dap (noun)
Elaborate handshake, especially hooking thumbs.
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Dap (noun)
A fistbump.
“dab”
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Dap (verb)
To greet with a dap.
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Lap (noun)
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
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Lap (noun)
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
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Lap (noun)
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered
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Lap (noun)
a place of rearing and fostering
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Lap (noun)
The upper legs of a seated person.
“The boy was sitting on his mother’s lap.”
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Lap (noun)
The female pudenda. 17th century
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Lap (noun)
A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
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Lap (noun)
The act or process of lapping.
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Lap (noun)
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”
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Lap (noun)
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.”
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Lap (noun)
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).
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Lap (noun)
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”
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Lap (noun)
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.
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Lap (noun)
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
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Lap (noun)
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.
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Lap (verb)
To enfold; to hold as in one’s lap; to cherish.
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Lap (verb)
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
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Lap (verb)
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
“to lap a piece of cloth”
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Lap (verb)
to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
“to lap a bandage around a finger”
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Lap (verb)
to envelop, enfold
“lapped in luxury”
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Lap (verb)
to wind around
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Lap (verb)
To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
“One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.”
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Lap (verb)
To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
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Lap (verb)
To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
“The cloth laps back.”
“The boats lap; the edges lap.”
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Lap (verb)
To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
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Lap (verb)
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
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Lap (verb)
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.”
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Lap (verb)
To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
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Dap (verb)
fish by letting the fly (but not the line) bob lightly on the water
“he was dapping the fly skilfully”
“dapping was almost a sure-fire method”
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Dap (noun)
a fishing fly used when dapping
“most of the fish are being taken on the dap”
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Dap (noun)
rubber-soled shoes
“hi-hats and daps are the order of the day”
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Dap (noun)
an elaborate handshake that typically involving slapping palms, bumping fists, or snapping fingers
“Lance stopped to sign autographs and give dap to folks”
“I knew I had done something right when one of the students put out his hand for some dap”
“everybody laughed and gave daps and high fives”