intransitive verb
napped, nap′ping- to doze or sleep lightly for a short time
- to be careless or unprepared
Origin of nap
Middle English nappen from Old English hnappian, akin to Old High German hnaffezan a brief, light sleep; doze
Two children taking a nap at preschool.
- Nap is a brief period of sleep, or a fabric surface that is made of short hairs or fibers.
- An example of a nap is a 20 minute sleep period in the middle of the day.
- An example of nap is lamb's wool.
- Nap is defined as to sleep for a brief period of time, usually during the day.
An example of nap is to sleep for 30 minutes in the middle of the day.
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nap
- the downy or hairy surface of cloth formed by short hairs or fibers, esp. when artificially raised by brushing, etc.; pile
- any such downy surface, as that raised on the flesh side of leather
Origin of nap
Middle English noppe from or akin to Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe (Ger and Danish hoppe) from Indo-European an unverified form kenebh- from base an unverified form ken-, to scratch, rub from source German nut, rabbet, Classical Greek knaptein, to scratch, tear aparttransitive verb
napped, nap′ping to raise a nap on (fabric or leather), as by brushing
napoleon (senses & )
-nap
to seize and carry away; steal: often in nonce combinations: dognap, petnap
Origin of -nap
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nap
noun
A brief sleep, often during the day.
intransitive verb
napped, nap·ping, naps- To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
- To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard: The civil unrest caught the police napping.
Origin of nap
Middle English from nappen to doze from Old English hnappianRelated Forms:
- nap′per
noun
noun
A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
transitive verb
napped, nap·ping, napsTo form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Origin of nap
Alteration ( perhaps influenced by obsolete French nape tablecloth ) of Middle English noppe from Middle Dutchtransitive verb
napped, nap·ping, napsTo pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish) in a thin, even layer: “a stuffed veal chop napped with an elegant Port sauce” ( Jay Jacobs )
Origin of nap
French napper from nappe cover ; see nappe .nap3
noun
- a. A trick-taking card game in which each player is dealt five cards and bids the number of tricks he or she intends to take, with the highest bidder deciding the trump.b. The first bid of five tricks in this game, the maximum number in a hand. Also called napoleon .
- See napoleon1.
Origin of nap
Short for napoleonTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)
- to have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day
- to be off one's guard
- The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
Origin
From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep"), from Proto-Germanic *hnappÅnÄ… (“to nap"). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (> Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber") > German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap")).
Verb
(third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)
- to form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather)
Origin
From Middle English nappe, from Middle Dutch
Noun
(plural naps)
Origin
- From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France (Bonaparte)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)
- (obsolete) to grab; to nab
Origin
possibly Scandanavian, cognate with nab, see Swedish nappa (“pinch")
Verb
(third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)
- (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive)
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nap - Computer Definition
An official Tier 1 site at which an Internet service provider (ISP) can access the Internet backbone and exchange traffic with other ISPs. Some NAPs are known as Internet Exchanges (IXs) and some as MAEs. NAP locations include San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and New Jersey. See also Internet, ISP, IX, and MAE.
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(1) (Network Access Protection) See endpoint security.
(2) (Network Access Point) The first public Internet exchange points (IXPs). Established by the National Science Foundation in the early 1990s, they were set up to provide a standard way to exchange packets for commercial backbones. When the Net went commercial in 1995, four official NAPs were created. Three were run by the telephone companies in San Francisco, Chicago and Pennsauken, NJ, and the fourth was run by Metropolitan Fiber Systems (MFS) in Washington, D.C., known as MAE-East (Metropolitan Area Exchange-East). Four more MAEs became de facto NAPs along with two federal exchanges and the Commercial Internet Exchange Association (see CIX). From a Dozen to Hundreds Since the first NAPs, hundreds of public exchange points were created around the world, which serve to interconnect all the backbone networks and provide on-ramps to smaller ISPs. See IXP.
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