Overview of noun lapping

The noun lapping has 1 sense

• imbrication, overlapping, lapping -- (covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles))

Overview of verb lap

The verb lap has 5 senses

• lap -- (lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another)


• lick, lap -- (pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand")


• lap, swish, swosh, swoosh -- (move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open")


• lap, lap up, lick -- (take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast")


• lave, lap, wash -- (wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore")