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What (who) is NAP - definition
Nap (disambiguation)
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
NAP; NAP (disambiguation); Napping (disambiguation)
A nap is a short period of sleep.
Nap or NAP may also refer to:
nap
SHORT PERIOD OF SLEEP DURING TYPICAL WAKING HOURS
Catnap; Napping; Napping (sleep); Naptime
(naps, napping, napped)
1.
If you have a nap, you have a short sleep, usually during the day.
Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair...
I might take a little nap.
= snooze, doze
N-COUNT
2.
If you nap, you sleep for a short period of time, usually during the day.
An elderly person may nap during the day and then sleep only five hours a night.
= doze
VERB: V
3.
The nap of a carpet or of a cloth such as velvet is the top layer of short threads, which usually lie smoothly in one direction.
N-SING
4.
If someone is caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been. (INFORMAL)
The security services were clearly caught napping.
PHRASE: V inflects
NAP
SHORT PERIOD OF SLEEP DURING TYPICAL WAKING HOURS
Catnap; Napping; Napping (sleep); Naptime
Amsterdam Ordnance Datum
Examples of use of NAP
1. The Japanese have gotten the nap down to a science.
2. In the long afternoon break, many lads take a nap.
3. They lunch on spicy shrimp soup, then nap some more.
4. Especially if he‘s put off his nap for the occasion.
5. Patients also nap, write diary entries or play cards.