Lap
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to fold, wrap to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up to envelop, enfold to wind around To place or lay (something) so as to overlap another. To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth. To lie partly on or over something; to overlap. To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more lap than them. To slurp up a liquid (like water) as a dog.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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 female pudenda. component that overlaps or covers any portion of the same or adjacent component. 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. 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. 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.
Example sentence: Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.
Circle
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To travel around along a curved path.To surround.To place or mark a circle around.To travel in circles.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from another point.A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance from another point.Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.Orbit.A specific group of persons.A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
Example sentence: This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.