Dictionary Entry
nap
nap is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
- 2intransitive verb
To be in a careless, secure state.
- 3noun
A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
- 6transitive verb
To raise, or put, a nap on.
- 7noun
a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
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- 8noun
sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- 9noun
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"
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- 10noun
a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- 11noun
a period of time spent sleeping
"he felt better after a little sleep"
"there wasn't time for a nap"
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- 12verb
take a siesta
"She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"
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