Lap vs Lash - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lap and lash

is that lap is laplander while lash is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

As a verb lash is

to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one or lash can be to bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

As an adjective lash is

(obsolete) remiss, lax.

lap

English

Etymology 1

Old English '' (skirt or flap of a garment), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
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.

The boy was sitting on his mother's lap

(archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.

(construction) component that overlaps or covers any portion of the same or adjacent component.

Derived terms

* lapdance, lap-dance, lap dance * lapdog * lapmark * laptop

Verb

(lapp)
To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

* Dryden

Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.

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

* Praed

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 fold; to bend and lay over or on something.

to lap a piece of cloth

to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up

to lap a bandage around a finger

* Isaac Newton

About the paper I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.

to envelop, enfold

lapped in luxury

to wind around

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

One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.

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

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

The cloth laps''' back; the boats '''lap'''; the edges '''lap .

* Grew

The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.

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.

Derived terms

* lapper

Noun

(en noun)
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.

* {{quote-news
, year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps .}}
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.

Derived terms

* lap of honor/lap of honour

Etymology 3

From (etyl) lapian'', from (etyl) .

Verb

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

* Shakespeare

They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

* Sir K. Digby

The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore.

(of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

* Tennyson

I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag.

Derived terms

* lapper

Anagrams

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lash
English

Etymology 1
(en)
Noun
(es)
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

(label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.

A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.

* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.

A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)

Verb
(es)
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —

To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.

the whale lashes the sea with its tail.

And big waves lash the frighted shores. —

* {{quote-news
, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.}}
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.

He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —

To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.

to lash vice

To ply the whip; to strike.

To utter censure or sarcastic language.

To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —

(of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

* {{quote-news
, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With rain lashing across the ground at kick-off and every man in Auckland seemingly either English-born or supporting Scotland, Eden Park was transformed into Murrayfield in March.}}
See also
* lash out
Etymology 2
From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)
Verb
(es)
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

to lash something to a spar

lash a pack on a horse's back
(to bind with a rope) * Finnish: (trans-mid) * Jèrriais: (t) (trans-bottom)
Etymology 3
From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).
Adjective
(en adjective)
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.

(obsolete) Relaxed.

Soft, watery, wet.

* 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)

(Ulster) excellent, wonderful

''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !

That Chinese (food) was lash !

Drunk.