Nap meaning
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.
verb
A brief sleep, often during the day.
noun
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.
noun
To seize and carry away; steal.
Dognap, petnap.
affix
To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
verb
To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard.
The civil unrest caught the police napping.
verb
A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
noun
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
verb
To pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish).
verb
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To doze or sleep lightly for a short time.
verb
To be careless or unprepared.
verb
A brief, light sleep; doze.
noun
The downy or hairy surface of cloth formed by short hairs or fibers, esp. when artificially raised by brushing, etc.; pile.
noun
Any such downy surface, as that raised on the flesh side of leather.
noun
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To raise a nap on (fabric or leather), as by brushing.
verb
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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To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
verb
To be off one's guard.
The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
verb
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather)
verb
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(obsolete) To grab; to nab.
verb
(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive)
verb
Origin of nap
- < kidnap
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
- Alteration (perhaps influenced by obsolete French nape tablecloth) of Middle English noppe from Middle Dutch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from nappen to doze from Old English hnappian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- French napper from nappe cover nappe
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Short for napoleon
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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")).
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- possibly Scandanavian, cognate with nab, see Swedish nappa (“pinch")
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- From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France (Bonaparte)
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- From Middle English nappe, from Middle Dutch
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