Nap

Definition: Nap

Nap

Noun

1. A period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "a brief nap".

2. A soft or fuzzy surface texture.

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

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Agriculture

Chemical Industry

Literature

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Synonyms: Nap

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Inactivity

Sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus; Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology.

Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's.

Roughness

Wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff.

Texture

Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.

Crosswords: Nap

Hungarian (day, solar, sun, term), Manx (nap), Romanian (kale).

I don't see plays, 'cause I can nap at home for free (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling)

I got to go home and take a nap. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Take a nap like Rip Van Winkle, daze dreamin' again (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen)

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Learn from the past; live for today; look for tomorrow; take a nap this afternoon. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to. (references; author: unknown)

Egy Kis hely a nap alatt (1973)

Plusz-mínusz egy nap (1973)

Eltávozott nap (1968)

Tízezer nap (1967)

Egy nap a paradicsomban (1967)

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Books

• Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book (reference)

• Just a Nap (reference)

• Little Brown Bear Won't Take a Nap! (reference)

• No Nap (reference)

• The Big Nap (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Horse Nap (reference)

• N.O.E. Nap of the Earth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Happy Nap Casino (reference)

• Nap "Don't Forget the Blues" Turner Live at Cada Vez (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Boy! That milk was good. Think I'll take a nap. Note bloody umbilical cord area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Catching a little nap after a long hard mission. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Nap Rucker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nap Lajoie. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. New York, "taking a nap". Credit: Library of Congress.

Nap time in the nursery school at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sons of agricultural day laborer taking a nap. McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro agricultural day laborer taking a nap in his home. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Muskogee County. Credit: Library of Congress.

Birdsboro (vicinity), Berks County, Pennsylvania. Edward and Doris Glass taking their afternoon nap in the hayloft on the farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client Dallas E. Glass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Orange, Texas. Nursery school children taking a mid-afternoon nap. Credit: Library of Congress.

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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

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Health

Employers can promote better working opportunities for individuals with narcolepsy by permitting special work schedules and nap breaks. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Because evenings starts late and end late, the early evening nap is the secret to being functional the next day. (references)

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Expressions using "nap": afternoon nap ♦ cat nap ♦ catch smb. nap ping ♦ go nap ♦ have a nap ♦ little nap ♦ take a nap ♦ take a short nap. Additional references.

Beginning with "nap": nap-hand, Nap-taking.

Ending with "nap": socialist-turned-nap.

Albanian

ngre pushin, push (bloom, Catkin, flue, fluff, fuzz, pile, pubescence), marr një sy gjumë (doze, take a nap), kotem (doze, drowse), gjumë i shkurtër (slumber), dremitje (catnap, doze, drowse, nod, slumber, somnolence, somnolency), dremit (doze, drowse, nod, slumber, snooze), dremis (doze, drowse, nod, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قيلل (snooze), ‏قيلولة (meridian, siesta, slumber), ‏غفو (doze off, drowse, slumber), ‏سنة من النوم (doze, slumber), ‏سبات قيلولة, ‏زغب النسيج, ‏زغب (coma, fluff, fuzz, hairy, pile, plumule, pubescence, quilt), ‏الزأبر زغبة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

размъхвам, вид игра на карти (faro, old maid, pontoon, seven-up, slapjack, snap, spoil-five), не съм бдителен, не съм подготвен, мъх (bristle, down, fluff, fuzz, moss, pile, pubescence), поспивам (have a nap), дрямка (doze, drowse, kip, nod, shut eye, snooze), дремвам (get some sleep). (various references)

Chinese 

盹 (doze), 休息 (rest, rested, Resting). (various references)

Czech

zdřímnutí (catnap, doss, doze, forty winks, snooze), zdřímnout si (doze off, have a catnap, snooze), vlas látky. (various references)

Dutch

sluimeren (doze, slumber), dutten (doze, slumber), druilen (doze, slumber). (various references)

Esperanto

dormeti (slumber). (various references)

Faeroese

durva (doze, slumber). (various references)

Farsi 

پرز (Fuzz), چرت زدن (Calk, Catnap, Slumber, Snooze), چرت (Doze, Slumber, Snooze), خواب نیمروز, خواب (Asleep, Dream, Sleep). (various references)

Finnish

nukka (pile), torkahdus (doze). (various references)

French

velouter, somme, poil, petit somme, manille aux enchères, lainer, faire un petit somme, faire la sieste. (various references)

Frisian

dodzje (doze, slumber). (various references)

German

schlummern (doze, drowse, lie dormant, slumber, to drowse, to slumber), schläfchen (dozer, lie down, snooze), Noppe (Burl, knob, loop, nipple, pimple), nickerchen (beauty sleep, catnap, lie down, snooze). (various references)

Greek 

υπνάκος (shut eye), χνούδι (down, floss, fluff, fuzz, pile), χνουσ (fluff, villus), ελαφροκοιμάμαι, το πέλος. (various references)

Hebrew 

להתנמנם (doze), תנומה (doze, sleep, slumber), צד הרך באריג. (various references)

Hungarian

szundikálás (catnap, doze, slumber, snooze), szieszta (siesta). (various references)

Indonesian

tidur sebentar, mengangut (doze). (various references)

Italian

pisolino (catmint, catnap, doze, snooze). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

仮眠 (doze). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひるね (siesta), うたたね (dozing, napping on the floor, siesta), かすい (add water, drooping, hanging down, river water, siesta, spike, stream), かりまくら, かりね (catnap, siesta, stopping at an inn, stubble), かみん (doze, estivation, the common people, the lower classes, the masses), ごすい (siesta). (various references)

Korean 

낮잠. (various references)

Manx

snapperaght (napping, snoozing), snap (short sleep, snooze), saveen (doze, slumber), neeal (ashen, ashen colour, ashy, aspect, aspect of face, cloud, complexion, faint, nebula, swoon), nap. (various references)

Pig Latin

apnay.(various references)

Portuguese

sesta, dormitar (catnap, doze, drowse, rest, slumber, snooze), cochilar (doze, drop off, drowse, nod off, slumber). (various references)

Romanian

trage un pui de somn (have a nap, have one's forty winks, kip, sleep without a break, snooze, take a nap), somnuleţ, scamã (flue, fluff, fuzz, lint, squama), pui de somn (cat nap, forty winks, kip, short sleep, slumber, snooze), puf (bloom, down, floss, flue, fluff, fuzz, lint), pluş, moţãi (doze, doze away, doze off, drowse, nod, slumber, snooze), dormita (slumber, snooze), considera câştigãtor, aţipealã (doze, drowse, forty winks). (various references)

Russian 

ворсить (crisp, teasel), ворс (fluff), вздремнуть (catnap, catsleep, have a nap, snatch a nap, snooze, take a nap), пух (down, fluff, fuzz), пушок (downiness, lint, pubescence, thistledown), дремота (dormancy, doze, drowse, nod, slumber, somnolence, somnolency), дремать;вздремнуть дремота, дремать (doze, drowse, napping, nod, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, snooze). (various references)

Scottish

caitein (nap of cloth), caitean (nap of cloth, ruffled surface, shag). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ne biti svestan, spavanje na kratko, odspavati (get some sleep), dremnuti. (various references)

Spanish

siesta (siesta). (various references)

Swedish

stalltips. (various references)

Thai

การงีบ, งีบ, ขนอ่อนของต้นพืช. (various references)

Turkish

uyuklamak (be somnolent, doze, doze off, drowse, drowse off, go to the land of nod, nod off, sleep, slumber, snooze, zizz), uyku (bye bye, dorm-, repose, rest, shuteye, sleep, sleeping, slumbers), tüylendirmek (fledge), tüy (down, feather, fluff, hair, pile, plume, quill, villus), kestirmek (cause to cut, conjecture, doze, estimate, get some sleep, have a nap, have a snooze, perceive, snooze, take a nap, zizz), kestirme (catnap, direct, fourty winks, inkling, lay down, lie down, short, shortcut, shut eye, zizz), kısa uyku (forty winks, lie down, snooze), içi geçmek (doze off, shrivel), hav (down, floss, fuzz, pile), şekerleme (boiled sweet, bonbon, butterscotch, candy, catnap, confection, confectionery, doze, fondant, forty winks, fourty winks, goodies, kip, kiss, lay down, lie down, snooze, sugar candy, sugarplum, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, sweets, sweety, taffy, toffee, toffy). (various references)

Ukrainian

тканина з начосом, короткий сон удень, капелюх (hat), ворсувати (tease, teasel), задрімати, дрімота (dormancy, doze, drowse, drowsiness, nod, sandman, sloom, slumber), дрімати (doze, nod, nod off, slumber). (various references)

Vietnamese 

giấc trưa, giấc ngủ chợp, dệt tuyết. (various references)

Welsh

cyntun, ceden, amrantun (moment). (various references)

dormio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nap": napalm, napalmed, napalming, napalms, nape, naperies, napery, napes, naphtha, naphthalene, naphthalenes, naphthas, naphthene, naphthenes, naphthenic, naphthol, naphthols, naphthyl, naphthylamine, naphthylamines, naphthyls, naphtol, naphtols, napiform, napkin, napkins, napless, napoleon, napoleons, nappe, napped, napper, nappers, nappes, nappie, nappier, nappies, nappiest, napping, nappy, naprapathies, naprapathy, naps. (additional references)

Words ending with "nap": catnap, dognap, gingersnap, kidnap, knap, petnap, snap, unsnap. (additional references)

Words containing "nap": anapaest, anapaests, anapest, anapestic, anapestics, anapests, anaphase, anaphases, anaphasic, anaphor, anaphora, anaphoras, anaphoric, anaphorically, anaphors, anaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiacs, anaphylactic, anaphylactically, anaphylactoid, anaphylaxes, anaphylaxis, anaplasia, anaplasias, anaplasmoses, anaplasmosis, anaplastic, asynapses, asynapsis, canape, canapes, catnaper, catnapers, catnapped, catnapper, catnappers, catnapping, catnaps, dognaped, dognaper, dognapers, dognaping, dognapped, dognapper, dognappers, dognapping, dognaps, gingersnaps, hanaper, hanapers, inapparent. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anap, Andp, anop, anp, Anpp, Anup, enap, Enpa, fnip, Fnipp, gnap, iniap, n'a, naa, naaa, naam, nac, nadp, naep, naf, nafp, Nahpo, nai, n'ai, naip, naj, nak, nal, namp, nao, Napl, napp, nappa, napt, napy, naq, nau, nav, naw, nax, Naz, ncp, nelp, neph, nepp, nerp, nesp, newp, Ngapoi, ngp, Nha, nhao, nhap, niep, nipa, nipi, nipt, Njau, Nka, nlp, nma, nmp, noap, nop, nopa, noph, Nopt, nopw, np, npa, npg, npn, npo, npt, Npy, nramp, nrpo, Nwapo, nyp, Nypl, nypo, Vnup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pan.

-1 letter: an, na, pa.

+1 letter: knap, nape, naps, neap, nipa, pain, pane, pang, pans, pant, pawn, pean, pian, pina, plan, puna, snap, span.

+2 letters: apian, aping, apnea, apron, arpen, aspen, capon, inapt, japan, knaps, lapin, napes, nappe, nappy, neaps, nipas, nopal, paean, paeon, pagan, pains, paint, panda, pandy, paned, panel, panes, panga, pangs, panic, panne, pansy, panto, pants, panty, paten, patin, pavan, pavin, pawns, peans, pecan, pekan, penal, penna, piano, pians, pinas, pinna, pinta, plain, plane, plank, plans, plant, plena, prang, prank, prawn, punas, punka, pyran, snaps, sneap, spang, spank, spans, spawn, spean, ulpan, unapt, uncap, yapon.