lapboard
- noun
:
tabla de regazo
- Students know when they arrive in the room and see a journal entry on the board that they are to quietly get their lapboard and journals and begin copying.
Examples
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During class, each student placed their notebooks and writing materials on their lapboard to take notes comfortably.
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These and other keyboards that are separate from the computer can function as lapboards that reach the student rather than requiring the student to go to the computer.
Academic text (1992) -
"I don't believe those people," Gary said after tossing his lapboard across the office and watching it carom off the wall.
Fiction book (2001) -
She sat erect on the queen-sized bed, under a lapboard strewn with papers and pens, an island of erudition in a sea of books, notes, and manuscripts.
Academic text (1994) -
She used her lapboard to write her shopping list while sitting on the couch.
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For the art project, he balanced his sketchpad on a lapboard to draw while sitting in the park.
Synonyms
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A small flat board with a clip that holds papers for writing or reading
A flat light board you hold on your lap to write on when you have no desk
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Etymology
Lapboard is made of lap ('top of your legs when you sit') and board ('flat piece of wood'), so it means a flat board you put on your lap to use as a small desk for writing or drawing.