About The Word Nap
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Nap
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What's The Definition Of Nap?
[n] a short sleep (usually not in bed)
[n] a soft or fuzzy surface texture [n] a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "a brief nap" [v] take a siesta; "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour" Synonyms | Synonyms for Nap: cat sleep | catch a wink | catnap | catnap | forty winks | short sleep | sleep | snooze Related Terms | Find terms related to Nap: blanket drill | break | cat nap | catnap | dover | doze | drowse | feel | finish | forty winks | grain | granular texture | indentation | interlude | intermission | knub | let up | nub | oversleep | pause | pile | pit | pock | protuberance | relax | respite | rest | saw logs | saw wood | shag | siesta | sleep | sleep soundly | slumber | snooze | snore | spot of sleep | structure | surface | surface texture | take a nap | texture | unlax | wale | weave | wink | wink of sleep | woof See Also | beauty sleep | catch some Z's | doze | drowse | kip | kip | log Z's | period | period of time | siesta | sleep | sleeping | slumber | snooze | texture | time period | zizz Nap In Webster's Dictionary \Nap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Napped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Napping}.] [OE. nappen, AS. hn[ae]ppian to take a nap, to
slumber; cf. AS. hnipian to bend one's self, Icel. hnipna,
hn[=i]pa, to droop.]
1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. --Chaucer.
2. To be in a careless, secure state. --Wyclif.
I took thee napping, unprepared. --Hudibras.
\Nap\, n. A short sleep; a doze; a siesta. --Cowper. \Nap\, n. [OE. noppe, AS. hnoppa; akin to D. nop, Dan. noppe, LG. nobbe.] 1. 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; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth. 2. pl. The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet. --Knight. \Nap\, v. t. To raise, or put, a nap on. \Nap\, n. Same as {Napoleon}, 1, below. |
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