Nap vs. Gap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nap and Gap
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Nap
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.
Gap
An opening in a solid structure or surface; a cleft or breach
Wriggled through a gap in the fence.
A large gap in the wall where the artillery shell had exploded.
Nap
A brief sleep, often during the day.
Gap
A break in a line of defense.
Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
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Gap
An opening through mountains; a pass.
Nap
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.
Gap
A space between objects or points; an aperture
A gap between his front teeth.
Nap
The first bid of five tricks in this game, the maximum number in a hand. Also called napoleon.
Gap
An interruption of continuity
A nine-minute gap in the recorded conversation.
Needed to fill in the gaps in her knowledge.
Nap
See napoleon1.
Gap
A conspicuous difference or imbalance; a disparity
A gap between revenue and spending.
The widening gap between rich and poor.
Nap
To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
Gap
A problematic situation resulting from such a disparity
The budget gap.
The technology gap.
Nap
To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard
The civil unrest caught the police napping.
Gap
A spark gap.
Nap
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Gap
To make an opening or openings in
A wall that was gapped.
Nap
To pour or put a sauce or gravy over (a cooked dish) in a thin, even layer
"a stuffed veal chop napped with an elegant Port sauce" (Jay Jacobs).
Gap
To make or adjust a space between (objects or points) or in (a device)
Gap boards on a deck.
Gap a spark plug.
Nap
A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Gap
To be or become open
Her coat gapped open.
Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
Gap
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
He made a gap in the fence by kicking at a weak spot.
Nap
The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.
Gap
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
We can slip through that gap between the buildings.
Nap
(British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
Gap
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
There is a gap between the roof and the gutter.
Nap
A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
Gap
A vacant space or time.
I have a gap in my schedule next Tuesday.
Nap
A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
Gap
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
I'm taking a gap.
You must wait for a gap in the traffic before crossing the road.
Nap
A cup, bowl.
Gap
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
Their departure has left a gap in the workforce.
Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.
Nap
To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
Gap
A mountain or hill pass.
The exploring party went through the high gap in the mountains.
Nap
(figuratively) To be off one's guard.
The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
Gap
(Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
Nap
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Gap
(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
Jones doubled through the gap.
Nap
(obsolete) To grab; to nab.
Gap
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
Nap
(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce. usually in the passive
Gap
(AU) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
Nap
To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
Gap
(genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
Nap
To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping.
I took thee napping, unprepared.
Gap
(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
Nap
To raise, or put, a nap on.
Gap
(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
Nap
A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
Gap
(transitive) To check the size of a gap.
I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
Nap
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.
Gap
To leave suddenly.
Nap
The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
Gap
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.
It would make a great gap in your own honor.
Nap
Same as Napoleon, 1, below.
Gap
The vertical distance between two superposed surfaces, esp. in a biplane.
Nap
A period of time spent sleeping;
He felt better after a little sleep
There wasn't time for a nap
Gap
To notch, as a sword or knife.
Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface texture
Gap
To make an opening in; to breach.
Their masses are gapp'd with our grape.
Nap
The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave;
For uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction
Gap
A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures;
Gap between income and outgo
The spread between lending and borrowing costs
Nap
A short sleep (usually not in bed)
Gap
An open or empty space in or between things;
There was a small opening between the trees
The explosion made a gap in the wall
Nap
A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
Gap
A narrow opening;
He opened the window a crack
Nap
Take a siesta;
She naps everyday after lunch for an hour
Gap
A pass between mountain peaks
Gap
An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;
It was presented without commercial breaks
Gap
Make an opening or gap in
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