Nape vs. Nap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nape and Nap
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Nape
The nape is the back of the neck. In technical anatomical/medical terminology, the nape is also called the nucha (from the Medieval Latin rendering of the Arabic نُخَاع "spinal marrow").
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.
Nape
The back of a person's neck
Her hair was coiled demurely at the nape of her neck
Nap
A brief sleep, often during the day.
Nape
The back of the neck.
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Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
Nape
The back part of the neck.
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.
Nape
(zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
Nap
The first bid of five tricks in this game, the maximum number in a hand. Also called napoleon.
Nape
(obsolete) A tablecloth.
Nap
See napoleon1.
Nape
Napalm.
Nap
To sleep for a brief period, often during the day; doze.
Nape
To bombard with napalm.
Nap
To be unaware of imminent danger or trouble; be off guard
The civil unrest caught the police napping.
Nape
The back part of the neck.
Nap
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Nape
The back side of the neck
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).
Nap
A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
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.
Nap
(British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
Nap
A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
Nap
A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
Nap
A cup, bowl.
Nap
To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
Nap
(figuratively) To be off one's guard.
The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
Nap
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
Nap
(obsolete) To grab; to nab.
Nap
(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce. usually in the passive
Nap
To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
Nap
To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping.
I took thee napping, unprepared.
Nap
To raise, or put, a nap on.
Nap
A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
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.
Nap
The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
Nap
Same as Napoleon, 1, below.
Nap
A period of time spent sleeping;
He felt better after a little sleep
There wasn't time for a nap
Nap
A soft or fuzzy surface texture
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
Nap
A short sleep (usually not in bed)
Nap
A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
Nap
Take a siesta;
She naps everyday after lunch for an hour
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