(swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
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.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
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.
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
The act or process of lapping.
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).
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
(intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
(intransitive) to wind around
(intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
(transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
(transitive) to envelop, enfold
(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
(transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
(transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
lbp
lcp
ldp
lep
lep
noun
(rare, sciences) A butterfly or moth.
lip
lip
noun
(botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
(botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
(by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
(countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
(countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
(music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
(zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
The edge of a high spot of land.
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
verb
(intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
(intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
(sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
(transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
(transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
(transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
(transitive) To utter verbally.
(transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
(transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
llp
llp
Noun
Limited liability partnership.
lop
lop
noun
(Tyneside) A flea.
(US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
verb
(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
To allow to hang down.
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
lpc
lpf
lpg
lpl
lpm
lpn
lpp
lpr
lpr
Proper noun
of or of
lps
lpt
lpv
lpw
lsp
ltp
lwp
mpl
nlp
npl
olp
pal
pal
noun
(colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
(colloquial) An informal term of address, often used ironically in a hostile way.
verb
Be friends with, hang around with.
pcl
pdl
pel
pel
noun
(dated) pixel
phl
pil
pla
plc
plc
noun
(business) Initialism of public limited company.
(electronics) Initialism of programmable logic controller.
pld
plf
pli
pll
plm
plo
plp
plr
pls
pls
adv
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of please.
plt
plu
ply
ply
noun
(artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
(colloquial) Short for plywood.
(now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
A bent; a direction.
A layer of material.
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
verb
(intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
(intransitive, nautical, obsolete) To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
(intransitive, obsolete) To work diligently.
(transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
(transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
(transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
(transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
(transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
(transitive, obsolete) To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
pol
pol
noun
(informal) A politician.
ppl
ppl
noun
(informal, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of people.
(linguistics) Abbreviation of participle.
Initialism of parts per litre.
psl
pul
pul
noun
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Afghan afghani.
slp
spl
spl
Proper noun
the highest division of Scottish professional football.