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nap
1[ nap ]
verb (used without object)
- to sleep for a short time; doze.
Synonyms: , ,
- to be off one's guard:
The question caught him napping.
verb (used with object)
- to sleep or doze through (a period of time, an activity, etc.) (usually followed by away ):
I napped the afternoon away. He naps away most of his classes.
noun
- a brief period of sleep, especially one taken during daytime:
Has the baby had her nap?
nap
2[ nap ]
noun
- the short fuzzy ends of fibers on the surface of cloth, drawn up in napping.
- any downy coating, as on plants.
verb (used with object)
- to raise a nap on.
nap
3[ nap ]
noun
-nap
4- a combining form extracted from kidnap, with the general sense “abduct or steal in order to collect a ransom”:
artnap; petnap; starnap.
nap
1/ æ /
verb
- to sleep for a short while; doze
- to be unaware or inattentive; be off guard (esp in the phrase catch someone napping )
noun
- a short light sleep; doze
nap
2/ æ /
noun
- the raised fibres of velvet or similar cloth
- the direction in which these fibres lie when smoothed down
- any similar downy coating
- informal.blankets, bedding
verb
- tr to raise the nap of (cloth, esp velvet) by brushing or similar treatment
nap
3/ æ /
noun
- Also callednapoleon a card game similar to whist, usually played for stakes
- a call in this card game, undertaking to win all five tricks
- horse racing a tipster's choice for an almost certain winner
- go nap
- to undertake to win all five tricks at nap
- to risk everything on one chance
- not to go nap on slang.to hold in disfavour
- nap handa position in which there is a very good chance of success if a risk is taken
verb
- tr horse racing to name (a horse) as likely to win a race
Other yvlogs From
- Բl adjective
- Բl·ness noun
yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Zou persuaded her it wouldn't be safe to take a taxi home in the state she was in, she told us, and asked her to take a nap in his bedroom.
But the baby boy never woke up from the Sunday afternoon nap.
Speaking to the BBC World Service's Newsday programme, the man, who wished to stay anonymous for security reasons, described waking from a nap to the building shaking violently.
“Hardly a man takes a half hour’s nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, ‘What’s the news?’ as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels.”
Often he drives to a gym between shifts but sometimes he’s so exhausted he goes home to take a nap.
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