Crossword clues for lapping
lapping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lap \Lap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Lapping.]
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To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To lap his head on lady's breast.
--Praed. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lapping \Lap"ping\, n.
A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico
printers.
--Ure.
Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
Wiktionary
n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. vb. (present participle of lap English)
WordNet
n. the upper side of the thighs of a seated person; "he picked up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"
an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap"
the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs; "his lap was covered with food stains" [syn: lap covering]
a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches" [syn: overlap]
movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: circle, circuit]
touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet" [syn: lick]
n. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) [syn: imbrication, overlapping]
v. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand" [syn: lick]
move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open" [syn: swish, swosh, swoosh]
take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast" [syn: lap up, lick]
wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn: lave, wash]
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Wikipedia
Lapping is a machining process, in which two surfaces are rubbed together with an abrasive between them, by hand movement or using a machine.
This can take two forms. The first type of lapping (traditionally called grinding), involves rubbing a brittle material such as glass against a surface such as iron or glass itself (also known as the "lap" or grinding tool) with an abrasive such as aluminum oxide, jeweller's rouge, optician's rouge, emery, silicon carbide, diamond, etc., between them. This produces microscopic conchoidal fractures as the abrasive rolls about between the two surfaces and removes material from both.
The other form of lapping involves a softer material such as pitch or a ceramic for the lap, which is "charged" with the abrasive. The lap is then used to cut a harder material — the workpiece. The abrasive embeds within the softer material, which holds it and permits it to score across and cut the harder material. Taken to a finer limit, this will produce a polished surface such as with a polishing cloth on an automobile, or a polishing cloth or polishing pitch upon glass or steel.
Taken to the ultimate limit, with the aid of accurate interferometry and specialized polishing machines or skilled hand polishing, lensmakers can produce surfaces that are flat to better than 30 nanometers. This is one twentieth of the wavelength of light from the commonly used 632.8 nm helium neon laser light source. Surfaces this flat can be molecularly bonded ( optically contacted) by bringing them together under the right conditions. (This is not the same as the wringing effect of Johansson blocks, although it is similar).
In the art of conjuring, lapping refers to a set of techniques whereby a performer seated at a table can secretly dispose of an item into his/her lap. A common lapping technique is to sweep an item into the lap while pretending to pick it off the tabletop.
Usage examples of "lapping".
This made Raymo a figure of respect among his fellow prisoners during the twenty months they would spend in the fortress of La Cabana listening to rifle reports from the moat, where the executions took place, each crisp volley followed by a precise echo, an afterclap, as the prisoners thought about the dog that lived in the moat, lapping up blood.
It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.
Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.
It crept up on the gasolene car, as an express train overtakes a freight, and the man, looking back, and expecting to see his rival far behind was surprised to note the queer looking vehicle lapping his rear wheels.
Now the electric was lapping the rear wheels of the gasolene machine, but the driver did not know it.
The dog had found the rumored spring beneath the tower and had lain beside it, lapping at the cool water to stay alive.
The soothing mixture of the faint reggae beat blended with the lapping of the ocean waves whisking her away.
First came the Gestapo man who had arrested Eva and me when we were bathing out by the mouth of the Weser, and the summery sound of lazily lapping waves suddenly imposed itself upon the proceedings in court.
Another wampus already was swimming steadily toward open ocean, its back loaded with people and supplies, the ice-strewn water lapping threateningly close to the passengers it transported.
Aleytys, the lapping power, the small burry fields of Shadith, the bones began to knit together as Aleytys held the bits in place, the torn flesh began to repair itself.
Outside on the casing Quinton stooped to peer at the water lapping along the saddle tank.
Lapping and licking, his tongue avidly worked down from her clit, until it teased the scalloped inner lips of her vagina.
The river was fuller than Yama remembered it, lapping at the margin of the city, covering the shore where in the near future there would be wide mud flats and a scurf of shanty towns.
Even that commerce was but occasional, and through three-fourths of its rising tides the dirty indecorous drab of a river would come solitarily oozing and lapping at the rusty ring, as if it had heard of the Doge and the Adriatic, and wanted to be married to the great conserver of its filthiness, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.
All the wers were ablaze, with white fire running along their backs and lapping down their sides, and they snapped and howled like mad things and bolted away from the flames.