Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brief sleep, often during the day.
- intransitive verb To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
- intransitive verb To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard.
- noun A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
- transitive verb To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
- transitive verb To pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish).
- noun A card game that resembles whist.
- noun The highest bid in this game, announcing the intention to win five tricks, the maximum number in a hand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short sleep.
- To have a short sleep; be drowsy.
- To detect in the very act: hence the phrase in the quotation.
- To raise or put a nap on.
- noun A beaker.
- noun The woolly or villous substance on the surface of cloth, felt, or other fabric.
- noun Some covering resembling the nap of cloth.
- noun A felted cloth used in polishing glass, marble, etc.
- noun plural The loops of the warp in uncut velvet, which, when cut, form tho pile.
- noun Dress; form; presentation.
- To strike.
- To cheat.
- noun A knob; a protuberance; the top of a hill.
- To seize; grasp.
- noun An abbreviated form of
napoleon , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
- intransitive verb To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared.
- noun A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
- noun Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile.
- noun The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
- transitive verb To raise, or put, a nap on.
- noun Same as
napoleon , 1, below.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
soft orfuzzy surface onfabric orleather . - verb to form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather)
- noun A short period of
sleep , especially one during the day - verb to have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day
- verb to be off one's guard
- verb cooking To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive)
- noun UK A type of
bet in Britishhorse racing , based on the experts' besttips - noun uncountable, games A
card game in which players take tricks; properlyNapoleon - verb obsolete to grab; to nab
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- noun a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
- verb take a siesta
- noun a period of time spent sleeping
- noun a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- noun sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ah, rereading your reply from yesterday, I can assure you that what you call a nap is the beginning state of rest.
Hawaii Adventure Day 6: the Kapoho Tide Pools, underwater views Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Power-napping, catching 15 minutes of forty winks during lunch break, does have definite benefits, and indeed napping salons have started popping up recently, although I do suspect that due to the short night-time sleep hours the Japanese power-nap is more of a necessity than a lifestyle choice.
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The best time for a nap is between 1 and 3 p.m., when the body most craves a period of sleep.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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The ideal length for a workplace nap is 30 minutes or less, which assures that you won't fall into the deeper stages of sleep, and awake with that loopy feeling scientists call "sleep inertia."
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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The ideal length for a workplace nap is 30 minutes or less, which assures that you won't fall into the deeper stages of sleep, and awake with that loopy feeling scientists call "sleep inertia."
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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The chemical responsible for the post-gluttinous nap is called tryptophan, and it is why Uncle Bernie no longer has a moustache.
Archive 2009-10-01 Ulysses 2009
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I picture you and I having our 5 min nap after dinner.
Letters Home 2010
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I should go upstairs and get the next book now, but the urge to nap is rising.
do I fall through what I might of been? truepenny 2009
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The chemical responsible for the post-gluttinous nap is called tryptophan, and it is why Uncle Bernie no longer has a moustache.
Talking Turkey Ulysses 2009
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The best time for a nap is between 1 and 3 p.m., when the body most craves a period of sleep.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps Tony Schwartz 2010
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The idea of a “nap dress” is wild for a lot of different reasons—one being the fact that a dress you sleep in is just a nightgown, and if you actively are putting on a separate dress in order to take a nap in the middle of the day, that just feels like too many steps.
A “Nap Dress” Is Not a Thing Rachel Leishman 2020
oroboros commented on the word nap
Contronymic in the sense: stand up (e.g., nap of a rug) vs. lay down.
January 27, 2007
oroboros commented on the word nap
Pan in reverse.
November 3, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word nap
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner
March 15, 2008