NAP (napped, napping)

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Irregular inflected forms: napped    , napping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does nap mean? 

• NAP (noun)
  The noun NAP has 5 senses:

1. a period of time spent sleeping

2. a soft or fuzzy surface texture

3. the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

4. sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

5. a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

  Familiarity information: NAP used as a noun is common.

• NAP (verb)
  The verb NAP has 1 sense:

1. take a siesta

  Familiarity information: NAP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time spent sleeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

nap; sleep

Context example:

there wasn't time for a nap

Hypernyms ("nap" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nap"):

beauty sleep (sleep before midnight)

kip (sleep)

Derivation:

nap (take a siesta)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soft or fuzzy surface texture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("nap" is a kind of...):

texture (the feel of a surface or a fabric)

Derivation:

nappy ((of hair) in small tight curls)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

nap; pile

Context example:

for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction

Hypernyms ("nap" is a kind of...):

thread; yarn (a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

catnap; forty winks; light sleep; nap; short sleep; snooze

Hypernyms ("nap" is a kind of...):

sleeping (the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nap"):

siesta (a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries))

zizz (a nap)

Derivation:

nap (take a siesta)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

nap; Napoleon

Hypernyms ("nap" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

• NAP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they nap    / nap    ... he / she / it naps    / naps   
Past simple: napped    / napped   
Past participle: napped    / napped   
-ing form: napping    / napping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take a siesta

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

catch a wink; catnap; nap

Context example:

She naps everyday after lunch for an hour

Hypernyms (to "nap" is one way to...):

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nap"):

doze; drowse; snooze (sleep lightly or for a short period of time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

nap (sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed))

nap (a period of time spent sleeping)

 Context examples 

In addition, long napping and sleeping may suggest an overall inactive lifestyle, which is also related to increased risk of stroke.

(Regular extended sleep increases risk of stroke, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As I roused myself from a short nap after day had dawned, my eyes fell upon a most singular appearance upon my own leg.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That's partially because in places like the United States, napping stops altogether as children get older.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It’s Black Baruk’s business that did it, when we thought he’d napped it once too often.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I found him asleep twice when I awoke; but I did not fear to go to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something napped almost angrily against the window-panes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I found myself not very well, and told the page that I had a mind to take a nap in my hammock, which I hoped would do me good.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

While the animals’ brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects.

(Hibernating ground squirrels provide clues to new stroke treatments, National Institutes of Health)

Aunt woke up and, being more good-natured after her nap, told me to read a bit and show what frivolous work I preferred to the worthy and instructive Belsham.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He replied in a muffled voice he did not recognize, saying that he was merely taking a nap.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)