lapper

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
    — ...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.
  2. Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps. in-compounds
    — […] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.
  3. A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
    — June 2006, RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home.
  4. One who wraps or folds.
  5. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
  6. A headsail that overlaps the mast.
动词 v.
  1. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
    — There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.

词形变化

lappers plural lappers present,singular,third-person lappering participle,present lappered participle,past lappered past

词源

Etymology tree
English lap
English -er
English lapper
From lap + -er.
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