OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14634

lap

/læp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
volado
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
dobladillo
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
falda • regazo
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
falda • regazo
The upper legs of a seated person.
The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
cubierta • delantal
A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 14636

lap

/læp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vuelta
One circuit around a race track.
to drive the fastest lap in qualifying
to run twenty laps
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 14635

lap

/læp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
doblar • sacar una vuelta a • sacar vueltas a
To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
📚 verb • entry_id 14637

lap

/læp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lambiscar • langüetear • lengüetear
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.
They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
Phrases