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Nape vs. Nap — What's the Difference?

Nape vs. Nap — What's the Difference?

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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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