laptop
//ˈlæp.tɒp//
Forms
- Plural
- laptops
- present (v1)
- laptop
- past (v2)
- laptoped
- past participle (v3)
- laptoped
- present participle
- laptoping
- 3rd person singular
- laptops
Definitions
1.A laptop computer.
- He was playing a video game on his laptop.
- Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.
1.Designed for use on a lap.
- Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.
- At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.
- Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel, just a chapter or two at a time.
1.To use a laptop computer.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4192
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.