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lapa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blade noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
  • head noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
  • palm noun A tall tropical tree with a crown of large leaves and no branches, such as the ones seen on beaches.
  • vane noun A device mounted on a roof or pole that turns to show which way the wind is blowing.

Senses

lapa is used for these senses in English:

  • blade The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  • blade (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
  • head (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
  • headstock The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
  • palm The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.
  • vane Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

blade — full definition

  1. noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
  2. noun A flat, thin part shaped like a cutting blade, such as of a fan, propeller, oar, or grass.
  3. verb To skate using inline skates ("rollerblades").

head — full definition

  1. noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
  2. noun A person in charge; a leader.
  3. verb To be in charge of, or to move in a particular direction.
  4. adj Chief or foremost in rank.

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