The meaning of LAP is a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment. How to use lap in a sentence.

To lie partly on or over something; overlap. 2. To form a lap or fold.

Phrasal verb lap something up (Definition of lap from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of lap noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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.

a place, environment, or situation of rest or nurture: the lap of luxury. area of responsibility, care, charge, or control: They dropped the problem right in his lap.

5 days ago · lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped or (archaic) lapt) (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.

Lap definition: A hanging or flaplike part, especially of a garment.

LAP definition: the front part of the human body from the waist to the knees when in a sitting position. See examples of lap used in a sentence.

intransitive verb To join (pieces, as of wood) by means of a scarf or lap joint. intransitive verb Sports To get ahead of (an opponent) in a race by one or more complete circuits of the course, as in running, or …