Hvad betyder lapse på engelsk?

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lapse Betydning & definition

0 to cease to exist, often because of lack of effort -- udløbe
- His insurance policy had lapsed and had not been renewed.
1 to slip, fall, be reduced -- henfalde til; synke
- As he could think of nothing more to say, he lapsed into silence
- I’m afraid our standards of tidiness have lapsed.
2 a mistake or failure (in behaviour/behavior, memory etc) -- svigt; -svigt
- a moment’s lapse of concentration caused him to drop the ball
- a lapse of memory.
3 a passing away (of time) -- periode
- I saw him again after a lapse of five years.

Occasional factual lapses occur (for instance, the assertion that schizophrenia is more widespread than depression), but they are few.
If a bill does not complete its parliamentary course in a session, it lapses.
Such lapses may occur, for example, because the parent is still searching for the lost person, or denying the person is dead.
Other criticisms might be that the chapters are a bit miscellaneous and that the style suffers occasional lapses.
Similarly, simple venial mistakes or lapses in professionalism may be distinguished from those egregiously unprofessional behaviors that warrant serious remediation or dismissal.
The patrols did resurface in late 1937 but seem to have lapsed thereafter.
In any event, memory lapses are likely to present major reliability problems.
If the work is not begun within this time limit, the permission lapses.