English-Thai Dictionary

lapse

N การ พลาดพลั้ง  การ ผิดพลาด  fault mistake failure kan-plad-pang

 

lapse from

PHRV ลดลง มาจาก  หล่น ลง มาจาก  fall from lod-long-ma-jak

 

lapse from grace

PHRV หมด ความชื่นชอบ  mod-kwam-chuan-chom

 

lapse into

PHRV จม อยู่ ใน  ค่อยๆ เข้าสู่ (สภาวะ อย่าง หนึ่ง )ทีละน้อย  relapse into jom-yu-nai

 

lapse into

PHRV ตกลง สู่  เข้าสู่  tok-long-su

 

lapse into

PHRV ปล่อย ให้ ใช้ ภาษา  poi-hai-chai-pa-sa

 

lapse into

PHRV เก็บ สินค้า ไว้ ให้ ลูกค้า  สำรอง สินค้า ไว้ ให้  lay aside kab-sin-ka-wai-hai-luk-ka

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAPSE

n.laps. [L. lapsus, from labor, to slide, to fall. ] 1. A sliding, gliding or flowing; a smooth course; as the lapse of a stream; the lapse of time.
2. A falling or passing.
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, but the return to diligence is difficult.
3. A slip an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
This Scripture may be usefully applied as a caution to guard against those lapses and fallings to which our infirmities daily expose us.
So we say, a lapse in style or propriety.
4. In ecclesiastical law, the slip or omission of a patron to present a clerk to a benefice, within six months after it becomes void. In this case, the benefice is said to be lapsed, or in lapse.
5. In theology, the fall or apostasy of Adam.

 

LAPSE

v.i.laps. 1. To glide; to pass slowly, silently or by degrees.
This disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from which we descended.
2. To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault.
To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need.
3. To slip or commit a fault by inadvertency or mistake.
Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.
4. To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, by the omission or negligence of the patron.
If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
5. To fall from a state of innocence, or from truth, faith or perfection.
Once more I will renew his lapsed powers.

 

LAPSED

pp. Fallen; passed from one proprietor to another by the negligence of the patron; as a lapsed benefice. A lapsed legacy is one which falls to the heirs through the failure of the legatee, as when the legatee dies before the testator.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LAPSE

Lapse, n. Etym: [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 )

 

Defn: 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.)

 

Defn: A fall or apostasy.

 

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.

 

LAPSE

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.

 

LAPSED

LAPSED Lapsed, a.

 

1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc. , by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton.

 

2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy. Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law ), a devise, or legacy, which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause. Wharton (Law Dict. ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

lapse

lapse |laps læps | ▶noun 1 a temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgment: a lapse of concentration in the second set cost her the match. • a weak or careless decline from previously high standards: tracing his lapse into petty crime. • Law the termination of a right or privilege through disuse or failure to follow appropriate procedures. 2 an interval or passage of time: there was a considerable lapse of time between the two events. ▶verb [ no obj. ] 1 (of a right, privilege, or agreement ) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire: my membership to the gym has lapsed. • (of a state or activity ) fail to be maintained; come to an end: if your diet has lapsed it's time you revived it. • (of an adherent to a particular religion or doctrine ) cease to follow the rules and practices of that religion or doctrine. 2 (lapse into ) pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition ): the country has lapsed into chaos. • revert to (a previous or more familiar style of speaking or behavior ): the girls lapsed into French. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to glide, slip, or fall ’; the verb reinforced by Latin lapsare ‘to slip or stumble. ’

 

lapsed

lapsed |lapst | ▶adjective no longer valid; expired: a lapsed insurance policy. • no longer following the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine; nonpracticing: a lapsed Catholic.

 

lapse rate

lapse rate ▶noun the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude.

 

Oxford Dictionary

lapse

lapse |laps | ▶noun 1 a brief or temporary failure of concentration, memory, or judgement: a lapse of concentration in the second set cost her the match. • a decline from previously high standards: tracing his lapse into petty crime. • Law the termination of a right or privilege through disuse or failure to follow appropriate procedures. 2 an interval or passage of time: there was a considerable lapse of time between the two events. ▶verb [ no obj. ] 1 (of a right, privilege, or agreement ) become invalid because it is not used, claimed, or renewed; expire: he let his membership of CND lapse. • (of a state or activity ) fail to be maintained; come to an end: if your diet has lapsed it's time you revived it. • cease to follow the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine. 2 (lapse into ) pass gradually into (an inferior state or condition ): the country has lapsed into chaos. • revert to (a previous or more familiar style of speaking or behaviour ): the girls lapsed into French. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin lapsus, from labi ‘to glide, slip, or fall ’; the verb reinforced by Latin lapsare ‘to slip or stumble ’.

 

lapsed

lapsed |lapst | ▶adjective no longer valid; expired: a lapsed insurance policy. • no longer following the rules and practices of a religion or doctrine; non-practising: a lapsed Catholic.

 

lapse rate

lapse rate ▶noun the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

lapse

lapse noun 1 a lapse of concentration: failure, failing, slip, error, mistake, blunder, fault, omission, hiccup; informal slip-up. 2 his lapse into petty crime: decline, fall, falling, slipping, drop, deterioration, degeneration, backsliding, regression, retrogression, descent, sinking, slide. 3 a lapse of time: interval, gap, pause, interlude, lull, hiatus, break. ▶verb 1 our membership has lapsed: expire, become void, become invalid, run out. 2 she lapsed into self-pity: revert, relapse; drift, slide, slip, sink; deteriorate, decline, fall, degenerate, backslide, regress, retrogress.

 

lapsed

lapsed adjective 1 a lapsed Catholic: nonpracticing, backsliding, apostate; former. ANTONYMS practicing. 2 a lapsed membership: expired, void, invalid, out of date. ANTONYMS valid.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

lapse

lapse noun 1 a momentary lapse of concentration: failure, failing, slip, error, mistake, blunder, fault, omission, oversight, negligence, dereliction; informal slip-up. 2 his lapse into petty crime: decline, downturn, fall, falling, falling away, slipping, drop, deterioration, worsening, degeneration, dereliction, backsliding, regression, retrogression, decay, descent, sinking, slide, ebb, waning, corruption, debasement, tainting, corrosion, impairment. 3 after this lapse of time I can look at it more calmly: interval, gap, pause, intermission, interlude, lull, hiatus, break; passage, course, passing, period, term, span, spell. ▶verb 1 the applicants let the planning permission lapse: expire, become void, become invalid, run out, terminate, become obsolete. 2 do not let friendships lapse: end, cease, come to an end, stop, terminate, vanish, disappear, pass, fade, fall away, dwindle, wilt, wither, die. 3 morality has lapsed: deteriorate, decline, fall, fall off, drop, worsen, degenerate, decay, rot, backslide, regress, retrogress, get worse, sink, wane, slump, fail; informal go downhill, go to pot, go to the dogs, go down the toilet, hit the skids. ANTONYMS improve, strengthen. 4 she lapsed into silence: revert, relapse, fall back; drift, slide, slip, sink, subside.

 

lapsed

lapsed adjective 1 a lapsed Catholic: non-practising, lacking faith, backsliding, recidivist, apostate; formal quondam. ANTONYMS practising, devout. 2 a lapsed season ticket: expired, void, invalid, run out, out of date, terminated, discontinued, unrenewed. ANTONYMS current, valid.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

lapse

lapse /læps /名詞 複 ～s /-ɪz /C 1 ちょっとした間違い , 過失 , 失敗 (slip 1 )▸ a lapse of memory 失念 ▸ a lapse of concentration 不注意 2 «…からの » 堕落 , 退廃 ; 逸脱 «from » ; 【悪い状態に 】陥ること «into » ▸ a lapse from faith 信仰に背くこと 3 (時 人生などの )経過 , 推移 ; 経過した時間 ▸ a lapse of a hundred years 百年の経過 ▸ with the lapse of time 時の経過につれて 4 (習慣などの )廃れ .5 〘法 〙(権利などの )消滅 , 失効 ; (遺産の )失効 .動詞 自動詞 1 〖～ into A 〗Aの状態になる ▸ lapse into unconsciousness [silence ]無意識になる [黙り込む ]2 «…から » 道を踏みはずす ; 逸脱する ; 堕落する «from » ; «…に » 陥る , 〈悪癖などが 〉出る «into » ▸ He often lapses .彼はよく過ちを犯す男だ ▸ lapse into crime [dialect ]罪に陥る [方言が出る ]3 〈時が 〉経過する (away ); 〈興味などが 〉消えていく ; 〈習慣などが 〉廃れる ▸ Time is lapsing away .時間がどんどん過ぎていく 4 〘法 〙〈権利 財産などが 〉消滅する , 失効する ; 〖～ to A 〗Aに移る , 帰属を変更する .～́ r à te 〘気象 〙気温逓減 （ていげん ）率 〘高度が増すにつれて気温が下がる率 〙.