Lap vs. Thigh — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lap and Thigh
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Lap
A lap is a surface (usually horizontal) created between the knee and hips of a biped when it is in a seated or lying down position. The lap of a parent or loved one is seen as a physically and psychologically comfortable place for a child to sit.In some countries where Christmas is celebrated, it has been a tradition for children to sit on the lap of a person dressed as Santa Claus to tell Santa what they want for Christmas, and have their picture taken, but this practice has since been questioned in some of these countries, where this sort of contact between children and unfamiliar adults raises concerns.Among adults, a person sitting on the lap of another usually indicates an intimate or romantic relationship between the two; this is a factor in the erotic activity in strip clubs known as a lap dance, where one person straddles the lap of the other and gyrates their lower extremities in a provocative manner.A Lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar played in a sitting position with the instrument placed horizontally across the player's knees.
Thigh
In human anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee. Anatomically, it is part of the lower limb.The single bone in the thigh is called the femur.
Lap
The front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person.
Thigh
The portion of the human leg between the hip and the knee.
Lap
The portion of a garment that covers the lap.
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Thigh
The corresponding part of the hind leg of a quadruped or other vertebrate animal.
Lap
A hanging or flaplike part, especially of a garment.
Thigh
The second segment of a bird's leg, containing the tibia and fibula.
Lap
An area of responsibility, interest, or control
An opportunity that dropped in his lap.
Thigh
A cut of meat taken from this part of an animal's body, especially from poultry.
Lap
A part that overlaps.
Thigh
The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
Lap
The amount by which one part overlaps another.
Thigh
That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
Lap
One complete round or circuit, especially of a racetrack.
Thigh
The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Lap
One complete length of a straight course, as of a swimming pool.
Thigh
The coxa, or femur, of an insect.
Lap
A segment or stage, as of a trip.
Thigh
The part of the leg between the hip and the knee
Lap
A length, as of rope, required to make one complete turn around something.
Thigh
The upper joint of the leg of a fowl
Lap
The act of lapping or encircling.
Lap
A continuous band or layer of cotton, flax, or other fiber.
Lap
A wheel, disk, or slab of leather or metal, either stationary or rotating, used for polishing and smoothing.
Lap
The act or an instance of lapping.
Lap
The amount taken in by lapping.
Lap
The sound of lapping.
Lap
A watery food or drink.
Lap
To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another
Lapped the roof tiles so that water would run off.
Lap
To lie partly over or on
Each shingle lapping the next.
Shadows that lapped the wall.
Lap
To fold (something) over onto itself
A cloth edge that had been lapped and sewn to make a hem.
Lap
To wrap or wind around (something); encircle.
Lap
To envelop in something; swathe
Models who were lapped in expensive furs.
Lap
To join (pieces, as of wood) by means of a scarf or lap joint.
Lap
(Sports) To get ahead of (an opponent) in a race by one or more complete circuits of the course, as in running, or by two or more lengths of a pool in swimming.
Lap
To convert (cotton or other fibers) into a sheet or layer.
Lap
To polish (a surface) until smooth.
Lap
To hone (two mating parts) against each other until closely fitted.
Lap
To lie partly on or over something; overlap.
Lap
To form a lap or fold.
Lap
To wind around or enfold something.
Lap
To take in (a liquid or food) by lifting it with the tongue.
Lap
To wash or slap against with soft liquid sounds
Waves lapping the side of the boat.
Lap
To take in a liquid or food with the tongue.
Lap
To wash against something with soft liquid sounds.
Lap
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lap
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
Lap
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
Lap
(figuratively) a place of rearing and fostering
Lap
The upper legs of a seated person.
The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
Lap
The female pudenda.
Lap
(construction) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Lap
The act or process of lapping.
Lap
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
The lap of a board
Lap
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
Lap
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).
Lap
(sports) One circuit around a race track.
To run twenty laps
To drive the fastest lap in qualifying
To win by three laps
Lap
(swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
To swim two laps
Lap
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.
Lap
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lap
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.
Lap
The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
Lap
Liquor; alcoholic drink.
Lap
(transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Lap
(transitive) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
Lap
(transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
To lap a piece of cloth
Lap
(transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
To lap a bandage around a finger
Lap
(transitive) to envelop, enfold
Lapped in luxury
Lap
(intransitive) to wind around
Lap
(transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
Lap
(transitive) To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
Lap
(intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
The cloth laps back.
The boats lap; the edges lap.
Lap
To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
Lap
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
Lap
(ambitransitive) 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.
Lap
To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
Lap
Clipping of laparoscopic
Lap
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Lap
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.
Lap
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps.
Lap
That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
Lap
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 Outside lap (below).
Lap
The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
Lap
One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
Lap
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.
Lap
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
Lap
A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
Lap
The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
Lap
The sound of lapping.
Lap
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To lap his head on lady's breast.
Lap
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lap
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
Lap
To wrap or wind around something.
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.
Lap
To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
Lap
To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
Lap
To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
Lap
To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay.
Lap
To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.
Lap
To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Lap
To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
Lap
The upper side of the thighs of a seated person;
He picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap
Lap
An area of control or responsibility;
The job fell right in my lap
Lap
The part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs;
His lap was covered with food stains
Lap
A flap that lies over another part;
The lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches
Lap
Movement once around a course;
He drove an extra lap just for insurance
Lap
Touching with the tongue;
The dog's laps were warm and wet
Lap
Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
Lap
Pass the tongue over;
The dog licked her hand
Lap
Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;
The bubbles swoshed around in the glass
The curtain swooshed open
Lap
Take up with the tongue;
The cat lapped up the milk
The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast
Lap
Wash or flow against;
The waves laved the shore
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