Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The back of the neck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The back upper part of the neck, technically called
nucha : generally in the phrase nape of the neck. - noun The thin part of a fish's belly next to the head. A beheaded fish, split along the belly, shows a pair of napes.
- noun A table-cloth.
- To cut through the nape of the neck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The back part of the neck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
tablecloth . - noun The back part of the
neck . - verb To bombard with
napalm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the back side of the neck
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of sooty fat that seemed to thrust his bullet head forward.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of sooty fat that seemed to thrust his bullet head forward.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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And she gradually noticed how the fine hairs on his nape were the color of Spanish gold; how his hands were large enough to hold her together.
Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001
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And she gradually noticed how the fine hairs on his nape were the color of Spanish gold; how his hands were large enough to hold her together.
Salem Falls JODI PICOULT 2001
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The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of sooty fat that seemed to thrust his bullet-head forward.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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And the thumbs that pressed her nape were the same.
Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987
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The creature's pudgy hands rested on the sleek arch of his belly; his nape was a roll of fat that seemed to thrust his bullet-head forward; his eyes, gleaming coals in a dead black stump.
Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969
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The nape is the back of the birds neck and the mantle is the "cloak" or feathers on the back of the bird.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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The nape is the back of the birds neck and the mantle is the "cloak" or feathers on the back of the bird.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Dresler101 2010
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The nape is the back of the birds neck and the mantle is the "cloak" or feathers on the back of the bird.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
Prolagus commented on the word nape
"A table-cloth"?!
January 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word nape
That's better than the one about the thin part of a fish's belly.
January 19, 2011
Prolagus commented on the word nape
And by the way, definition #3 under "noun" is the definition of a verb.
January 19, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word nape
And "To bombard with napalm" is just awful.
January 19, 2011
yarb commented on the word nape
Short for napery presumably.
January 19, 2011