lapse : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lapse	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for lapse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lapse n a mistake resulting from inattention [syn: oversight, lapse] a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters" a failure to maintain a higher state Synonym(s): backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting v pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana" Synonym(s): sink, pass, lapse end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed" drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards Synonym(s): lapse, backslide go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" Synonym(s): relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back let slip; "He lapsed his membership" pass by; "three years elapsed" Synonym(s): elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lapse \Lapse\, v. t. 1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. --Ayliffe. 2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. [Obs.] For which, if be lapsed in this place, I shall pay dear. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lapsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lapsing}.] 1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. --Swift. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character. --Addison. 2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake. To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need. --Shak. 3. (Law) (a) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc. (b) To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. --Ayliffe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lapse \Lapse\, n. [L. lapsus, fr. labi, p. p. lapsus, to slide, to fall: cf. F. laps. See {Sleep}.] 1. A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. --Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. --I. Taylor. 2. A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude. To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us. --Rogers. 3. (Law) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege. 4. (Theol.) A fall or apostasy.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
LAPSE A {single assignment} language for the {Manchester dataflow machine}. ["A Single Assignment Language for Data Flow Computing", J.R.W. Glauert, M.Sc Diss, Victoria U Manchester, 1978]. (1994-12-21)