different between zapping vs lapping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zæp??/
• Rhymes: -æp??

Verb

zapping

1. Present participle and gerund of zap.

Noun

zapping (plural zappings)

1. The act or result of being zapped.

French

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za.pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

zapping m (uncountable)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Further reading

• “zapping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??apin/

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with facer (facer zapping) or is also zapear.

Synonyms

• zapeo

Related terms

• zapear

Portuguese

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with fazer (facer zapping) or is also zapear and zapar

Related terms

• zapear, zapar

Spanish

Etymology

From the gerund form zapping of English zap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??apin/, [??a.p?n]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sapin/, [?sa.p?n]

Noun

zapping m (plural zappings)

1. (Spain) zapping, channel hopping, channel surfing

   Synonym: zapeo

Usage notes

The verb form (to channel hop) is formed with hacer (hacer zapping) or is also zapear.

Related terms

• zapear

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læp??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lappinge, wlappynge, equivalent to lap +? -ing.

Verb

lapping

1. present participle of lap

Derived terms

• lapping engine, lapping machine

Etymology 2

From Middle English lapping, lappyng, lappinge, equivalent to lap +? -ing.

Noun

lapping (countable and uncountable, plural lappings)

1. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)

2. (music, lutherie, bowmaking) Lengths of fine wire, silver, gold, silk or whalebone wrapped tightly around the bow stick adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel of the bow.
3. The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
4. The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
5. (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.

Synonyms

• (of a bow): winding

Translations

See also

• self-lapping

Anagrams

• Appling, appling, palping