lap vs field

lap and field both are nouns.

lap and field both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lap	Yes	No	Yes	No
field	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, field is a hypernym of lap; that is, field is a word with a broader meaning than lap:

lap: an area of control or responsibility
field: a particular environment or walk of life

Other hypernyms of lap include area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere.

lap (noun)	field (noun)
touching with the tongue	a particular kind of commercial enterprise
movement once around a course	a place where planes take off and land
a flap that lies over another part	a branch of knowledge
the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs	the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
the upper side of the thighs of a seated person	(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
an area of control or responsibility	all of the horses in a particular horse race
	all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
	(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
	a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
	somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
	a piece of land prepared for playing a game
	a region in which active military operations are in progress
	a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
	a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
	extensive tract of level open land
	the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
	a particular environment or walk of life

lap (verb)	field (verb)
wash or flow against	select (a team or individual player) for a game
take up with the tongue	answer adequately or successfully
pass the tongue over	play as a fielder
move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound	catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another

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