Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lap

/læp/ noun, verb

Forms laps lapping lapped lapt

  1. noun The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  2. noun An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  3. noun The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
  4. noun (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
  5. noun The upper legs of a seated person. “The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.”
  6. noun (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda.
  7. noun (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
  8. verb (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  9. verb (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
  10. verb (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something. “to lap a piece of cloth”
  11. verb (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up “to lap a bandage around a finger”
  12. verb (transitive) to envelop, enfold “lapped in luxury”
  13. verb (intransitive) to wind around
  14. verb (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another. “One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.”
  15. verb (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
  16. verb (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap. “The cloth laps back.”
  17. verb (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
  18. noun The act or process of lapping.
  19. noun That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another. “the lap of a board”
  20. noun The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping. “The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.”

Synonyms

lap covering overlap circle circuit lick swish swosh swoosh lap up lave wash

Antonyms

unlap

Etymology

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).

From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to 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.

From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, from Proto-West Germanic *lapōn, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”); akin to Old High German laffen (“to lick”), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (“spoon”). Cognate with Latin lambere (“lick”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Compare Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer.
  2. noun An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. Chaucer.
  3. verb To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. To lap his head on lady's breast. Praed.
  4. verb To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.

Etymology [OE. lappe, AS. læppa; akin to D. lap patch, piece, G. lappen, OHG. lappa, Dan. lap, Sw. lapp.]

Etymology [OE. lappen to fold (see Lap, n.); cf. also OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lap”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

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