Grind vs Lap - What's the difference?
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To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
To shape with the force of friction.
(metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
(sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
To oppress, hold down or weaken.
(slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
(slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
(video games) To repeat a task in order to gain levels or items.
To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
To instill through repetitive teaching.
(slang, Hawaii) To eat.
(slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
A tedious task.
A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
(archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
(subgenre of heavy metal)
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
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.
The upper legs of a seated person.
(archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
(construction) component that overlaps or covers any portion of the same or adjacent component.
To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
* Dryden
To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
* Praed
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
* Isaac Newton
to envelop, enfold
to wind around
To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
* Grew
To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
The act or process of lapping.
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.
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).
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.
(sports) One circuit around a race track, or one traversal down and then back the length of a pool; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps, to swim two laps.
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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.
A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
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.
(ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
* Shakespeare
* Sir K. Digby
(of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between grind and lap
is that grind is while lap is laplander.grind
English
(wikipedia grind)Verb
(see usage notes below )- grind a lens
- grind an axe
- This corn grinds well.
- Steel grinds to a sharp edge.
- Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.
- Eh, brah, let's go grind .
- (Farrar)
Usage notes
* In the sports and video game senses, the past participle and past tense form grinded is often used instead of the irregular form ground. * Historically, there also existed a past participle form grounden, but it is now archaic or obsolete. * When used to denote sexually suggestive dancing between two partners, the past participle and past tense form grinded is almost always used.Derived terms
* bump and grind * have an axe to grindNoun
(en noun)- This bag contains espresso grind .
- This homework is a grind .
lap
English
Etymology 1
Old English '' (skirt or flap of a garment), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The boy was sitting on his mother's lap
Derived terms
* lapdance, lap-dance, lap dance * lapdog * lapmark * laptopVerb
(lapp)- Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
- to lap his head on lady's breast
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , (etyl) dial. vravle'' "to wind", (etyl) ''goluppare "to wrap, fold up" (from (etyl)). More at envelop, develop The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.Verb
(lapp)- to lap a piece of cloth
- to lap a bandage around a finger
- About the paper I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.
- lapped in luxury
- One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
- 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 fly.
Derived terms
* lapperNoun
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Derived terms
* lap of honor/lap of honourEtymology 3
From (etyl) lapian'', from (etyl) .Verb
(lapp)- They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
- The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.
- I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.
