beak vs lap

beak

verb
  • Seize with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

  • That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. 

  • A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. 

  • A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

  • Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. 

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

lap

verb
  • To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. 

  • to envelop, enfold 

  • To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. 

  • to wind around 

  • To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap. 

  • To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth. 

  • To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. 

  • To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler. 

  • To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash. 

  • To fold; to bend and lay over or on something. 

  • To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. 

  • to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up 

  • To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another. 

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, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis. 

  • The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping. 

  • 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 traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again. 

  • 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. 

  • One circuit around a race track. 

  • An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. 

  • A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component. 

  • That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another. 

  • The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue. 

  • A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine. 

  • The act or process of lapping. 

  • The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered. 

  • a place of rearing and fostering 

  • The upper legs of a seated person. 

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