Catnap

Definitions: Catnap

Catnap

Noun

1. A short sleep (usually not in bed).

Verb

1. Take a siesta; "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour".

Synonyms: Catnap

Synonyms: cat sleep (n), forty winks (n), short sleep (n), snooze (n), catch a wink (v), nap (v). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It could be a new shirt in a men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black, coffee. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: Mark Frost; David Lynch)
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Domain	Title
Books	Catnap (reference) Catnap comforts (reference) Garfield's Longest Catnap (reference) Sam's Takin' a Catnap (Family Circus) (reference) The Big Catnap : A Sam The Cat Mystery (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Catnap" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Catnap" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expression using "catnap": have a catnap. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "catnap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		një sy gjumë (doze, forty winks, snooze), dremitje (doze, drowse, nap, nod, slumber, somnolence, somnolency). (various references)

Bulgarian		котешки сън, лека дрямка. (various references)

Czech		zdřímnutí (doss, doze, forty winks, nap, snooze), šlofík (doss, snooze). (various references)

Farsi		چرت کوتاه , چرت زدن (Calk, Nap, Slumber, Snooze), خواب سبک وکوتاه . (various references)

French		faire un petit somme. (various references)

German		nickerchen (beauty sleep, lie down, nap, snooze). (various references)

Greek		ελαφρόσ ύπνοσ (doze, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Hebrew		� מ� ום (doze, forty winks, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Hungarian		szunyókálás (cat nap, cat-nap, nap, slumber, somnolence), szundikálás (doze, nap, slumber, snooze), szundítás (cat-nap, shut eye, slumber). (various references)

Italian		pisolino (catmint, doze, nap, snooze). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		仮寝 (nap, siesta, stopping at an inn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かりね (nap, siesta, stopping at an inn, stubble). (various references)

Pig Latin		atnapcay

Portuguese		sono leve (light to medium weight fabrics), soneca (doze, drowse, nap, slumber), passar pelo sono (snooze), dormitar (doze, drowsy, nap, rest, slumber, snooze), dormir uma soneca (snooze). (various references)

Russian		сон урывками, вздремнуть (catsleep, have a nap, nap, snatch a nap, snooze, take a nap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dremati (doze, drowse, slumber, snooze), dremanje (doze). (various references)

Spanish		sueñecito (nap), siestecita (forty winks, snooze). (various references)

Swedish		tupplur (doze, little nap, nap, snooze). (various references)

Turkish		tavşan uykusu, kestirme (direct, fourty winks, inkling, lay down, lie down, nap, short, shortcut, shut eye, zizz), şekerleme (boiled sweet, bonbon, butterscotch, candy, confection, confectionery, doze, fondant, forty winks, fourty winks, goodies, kip, kiss, lay down, lie down, nap, snooze, sugar candy, sugarplum, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, sweets, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy). (various references)

Ukranian		спати уривками, трохи поспати, короткий сон (snooze), подрімати (take a nap). (various references)

Vietnamese		giấc ngủ ngắn (cat-sleep). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "catnap": catnaper, catnapers, catnapped, catnapper, catnappers, catnapping, catnaps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Catnap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadnam, canap, Canip, Cansap, cantal, cantop, cantrap, carnap, Catan, catap, Cathab, Catja, catna, catnic, catnipe, Catunda, Cenap, kanap, Katna, katnap, ketjap. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "catnap" (pronounced ka"tna'p)
3	-n a' p	kidnap.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: captan.
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-n-p-t"
	-2 letters: acta, anta, atap, cant, paca, pact, pant, tapa.
	-3 letters: act, ana, ant, apt, can, cap, cat, nap, pac, pan, pat, tan, tap.
	-4 letters: aa, an, at, na, pa, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-n-p-t"
	+1 letter: cantrap, capstan, captain, captans, catnaps.
	+2 letters: cantraip, cantraps, caponata, capstans, captains, catnaper, pancetta, placenta.
	+3 letters: acceptant, analeptic, anapestic, aphanitic, aplanatic, applicant, cantaloup, cantraips, caponatas, captaincy, captained, catnapers, catnapped, catnapper, cocaptain, mercaptan, pancettas, pancratia, patrician, placating, placation, placentae, placental, placentas.
	+4 letters: acceptance, analeptics, anapestics, anaplastic, antechapel, anticipant, anticipate, antipiracy, applicants, cantaloupe, cantaloups, capitation, captaining, catnappers, catnapping, coaptation, cocaptains, emancipate, incapacity, mercaptans, noncapital, nyctalopia, pancratium, pancreatic, pancreatin, paniculate, patricians, phantasmic, placations, placentals, plainchant, playacting, pyracantha.
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