All lap synonyms
lap
L l verb lap
- splash β to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
- lick β to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- bathe β If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
- swish β to move with or make a sibilant sound, as a slender rod cutting sharply through the air or as small waves washing on the shore.
- lave β to wash; bathe.
- drink β to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- burble β If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- slap β a gap or opening, as in a fence, wall, cloud bank, or line of troops.
- sip β to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.
- lip β either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- sup β to take liquid into the mouth in small quantities, as by spoonfuls or sips.
- ripple β (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- bubble β Bubbles are small balls of air or gas in a liquid.
- gurgle β to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- plash β a gentle splash.
- purl β the action or sound of purling.
- swathe β to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.
- fold β to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
- ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- turn β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- override β to prevail or have dominance over; have final authority or say over; overrule: to override one's advisers.
- wrap β to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- swaddle β to bind (an infant, especially a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement; wrap tightly with clothes.
- imbricate β overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.
- shingle β small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- overlie β to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
- slurp β to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee.
- lap up β (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- slosh β to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- overlap β to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- enfold β Surround; envelop.
- envelop β Wrap up, cover, or surround completely.
noun lap
- circuit β An electrical circuit is a complete route which an electric current can flow around.
- round β having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- tour β Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ΚΙrΚ dΙ/ (Show IPA), 1593β1652, French painter.
- circle β A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
- orbit β the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- course β Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- distance β the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- loop β a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
- stage β a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- leg β either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
- part β a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- segment β one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
- section β a part that is cut off or separated.
- heat β the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- phase β any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.