Usually means: Fold or layer of fabric.
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  1. lap: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lap, lap, lap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lap: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lap: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lap, lap, lap: Wordnik
  6. lap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lap: Wiktionary
  8. lap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lap: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lap: Dictionary.com
  12. lap (n.), lap (v.1), lap (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. lap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. LAP, Lap (disambiguation), Lap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lap: Rhymezone
  18. lap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lap: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. lap: Free Dictionary
  22. lap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lap: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Lap (Exalted), lap: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. LAP (Link Access Procedure): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. lap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LAP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LAP: Acronym Finder
  3. LAP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. lap: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. LAP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lap, lap, lap, lap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. L.A.P, l.a.p, lap: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Lap: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Lap: Construction Glossary
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See lapful as well.)

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noun:  The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
noun:  An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
noun:  The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
noun:  (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
noun:  The upper legs of a seated person.
noun:  (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
noun:  (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
verb:  (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
verb:  (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
verb:  (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
verb:  (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
verb:  (transitive) to envelop, enfold
verb:  (intransitive) to wind around
verb:  (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
verb:  (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
verb:  (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
verb:  (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
verb:  To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
noun:  The act or process of lapping.
noun:  That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
noun:  The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
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).
noun:  (sports) One circuit around a race track.
noun:  (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
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.
noun:  A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
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 or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
verb:  (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
noun:  The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
noun:  (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy. [(medicine) Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.]
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy. [(surgery) The surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.]
adjective:  (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic. [Of, relating to, or using laparoscopy or a laparoscope.]

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