Portion vs Lap - What's the difference?
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An allocated amount.
That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
One's fate; lot.
* Bible, Luke xii. 46
* Keble
The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
* Bible, Luke xv. 12
A wife's fortune; a dowry.
* 1613 , , V. iv. 31:
To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
To endow with a portion or inheritance.
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
Portion is a related term of lap.
As nouns the difference between portion and lap
is that portion is portion while lap is laplander.portion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lord of that servant will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Man's portion is to die and rise again.
- Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
- Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.
Usage notes
Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).Synonyms
* part * pieceDerived terms
* portionless * proportionVerb
(en verb)- Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. — Alexander Pope.
Usage notes
* Particularly used as portion out. * Relatively formal, compared to the more informal divide, divide up, or the casual divvy, divvy up.Synonyms
* divide, divide up * divvy, divvy upDerived terms
* portion off * portion outExternal links
* * ----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.