Kip vs. Nap — What's the Difference?

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A nap is a short period of sleep, typically taken during daytime hours as an adjunct to the usual nocturnal sleep period. Naps are most often taken as a response to drowsiness during waking hours.

The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.

A brief sleep, often during the day.

A set or bundle of such hides.

A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.

A rooming house.

A trick-taking card game in which the players are each dealt five cards and everyone bids the number of tricks they intend to take, with the highest bidder deciding the trump.

A place to sleep; a bed.

The first bid of five tricks in this game, the maximum number in a hand. Also called napoleon.

Sleep.

See napoleon1.

A unit of weight equal to 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms).

To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.

A maneuver in gymnastics, martial arts, and similar sports in which a person moves from lying on the back directly to a standing position by thrusting the legs upward and pushing off with hands placed palms-down near the ears. Also called kip-up.

To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard

To sleep.

To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

To pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish) in a thin, even layer

A bundle or set of such hides.

A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.

(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.

The leather made from such hide; kip leather.

The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.

A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

(British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.

Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.

A very untidy house or room.

A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.

A brothel.

A cup, bowl.

A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

(figuratively) To be off one's guard.

A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

(obsolete) To grab; to nab.

A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce. usually in the passive

(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping.

To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

To raise, or put, a nap on.

To snatch; take up hastily; filch

A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.

To hold or keep (together)

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

To conduct oneself; act

The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.

To perform the kip maneuver.

Same as Napoleon, 1, below.

The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.

A period of time spent sleeping;

A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

A soft or fuzzy surface texture

A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

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

Sleep;

A short sleep (usually not in bed)

The basic unit of money in Laos

A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

A gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an errect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright

Take a siesta;

Be asleep