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verbnaps, napped, napping napnæp [no object]Sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day. （尤指在白天）小睡，打盹 she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons Example sentencesExamples - Her eyes were closed; she was probably napping again.
- They would nap sometimes in the afternoon, but between lunch and dinner his brother always disappeared.
- Why is it I sleep so much better napping during the day than I do at night?
- The younger participants also reported slightly more time napping but slightly poorer sleep quality than the older participants.
- I was very close to napping on the couch until he was done running around.
- Mack was napping on the couch when Jack and Sam came into the living room.
- His defence were napping once more and Shaun Varley was unchallenged as he guided in a header.
- I have no idea what I'm thinking or feeling about this, but I must be nervous, since I was up all night, and just napped very briefly today.
- Following lunch, he would nap for an hour.
- I wondered if I had been glued to the bed, I could barely will myself to move, and then finally able to lift a limb or two, I turned over and felt into a sound sleep, napping for an hour.
- Make sure you relax enough but avoid cat napping.
- All this activity did wonders for their sleeping habits; they napped easily and slept through the night the entire week.
- I soon found an unconscious Charlie napping quite peacefully near a dimly lit grove.
- Rachel is napping on her couch in the middle of her run-down apartment.
- They take behavioral steps to compensate for the sleep loss, napping during the day or early evening.
- Sure, I think, I would be tired, but I could nap in the afternoon.
- I figured that I could always nap in the early afternoon through West Virginia and Maryland.
- For many months he wouldn't settle, slept fitfully, never napped and as a result was tired, irritable and tiring.
- Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
- Kristen groaned loudly, wishing for a quiet time to nap peacefully.
Synonyms doze, sleep, sleep lightly, take a nap, catnap, rest, take a siesta, drowse
nounPlural naps napnæp A short sleep, especially during the day. （尤指在白天）小睡，打盹 excuse me, I'll just take a little nap 对不起，我要小睡一会儿。 Example sentencesExamples - The second study showed that a 30-minute midday nap can reverse information overload.
- And then we all had a nice long afternoon nap.
- My nap was interrupted at about six that evening by a knock on my bedroom door.
- I think a mid evening power nap is the way forward.
- If a 5-year-old gets adequate rest at night, he or she no longer needs a daytime nap.
- He manages to sneak in a 2-hour nap before dinner.
- Surely my 30 min power nap during the day shouldn't have given me that effect?
- Take a vacation, nap on the couch - whatever helps you recharge your engine and stay fresh.
- I'll just take a nice long nap and you can wake me up in 2 hours.
- Well, it had been a busy afternoon, and I'd missed out on my nap after lunch.
- I felt a little weary when I'd eaten, and had a short afternoon nap to rest up.
- I hope you've had a nice little nap, because I haven't slept in 24 hours.
- He doubted anyone would mind if he caught a brief nap before they set off this afternoon.
- By the age of four, most children no longer require a daytime nap.
- Stop being such a party animal, and try taking a little cat nap.
- Do not nap during the day if this prevents sleeping well at night.
- When I woke up from my nap on the couch it was dark outside.
- There was even an unofficial press tradition of a nap after lunch, when nothing much tended to happen.
- I groaned and rolled over as some obnoxious buzzing noise interrupted my nap.
- The urge for a midday nap is built into your body's biological clock.
- He took a short nap in the afternoon and that was all.
- Maybe a short little nap will help me think of what to say.
- Some people call two hours of sleep a midday nap; I call it an accomplishment.
Synonyms sleep, light sleep, catnap, siesta, doze, lie-down, rest
Phrasesinformal Find someone off guard and unprepared to respond. 〈非正式〉（动作，事件）发生在某人不备之时，发生在某人疏忽大意时 the goalkeeper was caught napping by a shot from Carpenter 卡彭特的射门让守门员措手不及。 Example sentencesExamples - With Celtic pushing forward for the equaliser they were caught napping three minutes from time, to give the visitors a some what fortunate win.
- Look, the administration said months ago that we were caught napping in this area.
- Then 11 minutes from time City were caught napping again.
- Eventually, Manchester took a 2-1 lead before half time with an opportunist goal when a quickly-take free hit just inside the 22 caught Kendal napping for a second time.
- From the restart, Windermere were caught napping, however, when poor tackling let Workington drive up the centre of the park.
- The burghers of the town had been caught napping during the committee stages of the Bill.
- Indeed, the inclusion of these fine players in the opposition ranks strengthened the Colne side and it was they who nearly opened the scoring as Ilkley were caught napping.
- I mean, you open the newspaper today and meningitis is across it many times and so we have been caught napping in terms of being arrogant enough to think that we've conquered infectious disease.
- He said: ‘I was caught napping that morning, the top three competitors stole a huge advantage over me which prevented me from challenging for a top three position.’
- Several times throughout the first half, they were caught napping as the ball was played over, through and round them.
Synonyms catch off guard, catch unawares, take by surprise, surprise, catch in an unguarded moment, catch out, find unprepared informal catch someone with their trousers/pants down British informal catch on the hop
OriginOld English hnappian, probably of Germanic origin. Rhymesbap, cap, chap, clap, dap, entrap, enwrap, flap, frap, gap, giftwrap, hap, knap, lap, Lapp, map, nappe, pap, rap, sap, schappe, scrap, slap, snap, strap, tap, trap, wrap, yap, zap nounPlural naps napnæp 1in singular The raised hairs or threads on the surface of fabric or suede leather, in terms of the direction in which they naturally lie. （织物、皮革表面的）绒毛 carefully machine the seam, following the direction of the nap 小心顺着绒毛把接缝处缝好。 Example sentencesExamples - You can use it for fabric with a nap too - just put an arrow on it.
- Brush blanket on both sides with stiff brush to raise nap, press binding, using synthetic setting on iron.
- For wear purposes, would it be best to have the grain nap go across the chair back and cushion, or from back to front, or front to back?
- Brushing the nap against the grain on the pieces that were hung the wrong way will sometimes provide a more uniform look.
- The fabric will smooth down if you are going with the nap (like stroking a cat).
- Flannelette is a soft cotton fabric with a nap on one side.
- His bare feet stepped on the thick nap of the plush carpet underfoot.
- When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
- Flannel wool is a soft, lightweight fabric with a nap on one or both sides.
- Adapting this technique to fleece involves taking advantage of the fabric's loft and nap to simplify the process.
- It might have also had its nap raised by the use of teasels over the surface of the fabric.
- Even the red velvet cushions on each chair look untouched, brushed by the servants so that the nap is all in the same direction.
- Stitch all seams in the direction of the nap with right sides together.
- Railroading means that the pattern or nap on the fabric goes from side to side of the roll rather than up the roll.
- With these pressing aids, the velvet is placed face down on the board and the raised surface of the board prevents crushing the nap.
- If the carpet is a dark color, a light sweeping sends the little grains into the nap, where they disappear from view.
Synonyms pile, fibres, threads, weave, shag, texture, feel, surface, grain 2Australian dated, informal A bedroll used for sleeping on in the open. 〈澳，非正式〉睡袋（野外用）
Derivativesadjective Also most of the napless cloths have a lower resilience providing higher removal rates. Example sentencesExamples - Today most of the world uses thick, thirsty Turkish bath towels, but for most of history the world dried off after the bath with plain old napless pieces of cloth.
- Note that nap and napless carpets played a crucial role in everyday life of Azerbaijanians.
- Also, the lateral napless edges along a fabric web have also been scanned by means of mechanical sensors.
- We stay in a cheap hotel that has hard, napless, gummy carpeting, like the stuff you sometimes find in the vicinity of indoor swimming pools.
OriginLate Middle English noppe, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German noppe 'nap', noppen 'trim the nap from'. (sense 2) is probably from knapsack. nounPlural naps napnæp 1mass noun A card game resembling whist in which players declare the number of tricks they expect to take, up to five. 纳普牌戏（类似惠斯特牌戏，玩家自报可赢之墩数，全胜五墩） 2British A tipster's prediction of the probable winner of a race. 〈英〉预测（赛马，赛狗）获胜 he discovered that his nap of the day had sprinted home at 10–1 at Doncaster Example sentencesExamples - Lothersdale ‘C’ went double nap at home to Ilkley Road ‘B’ to leave them just one point behind Nemesis.
- A top-class colt last season, Azamour has all the credentials required to win this crackerjack of a race and he is awarded the nap vote.
- Whispered Promises gets the nap vote over an extended seven furlongs.
- The Cleveland trainer saddles nap selection Robbo, who makes plenty of appeal as a 14-1 shot following his recent victory at Kelso.
- Konker, who is sure to improve for the outing, is at his best on the level over today's trip of a mile and a quarter and he is made the nap selection to follow up his win in the same race 12 months ago.
- The three-year-old bids for the £10,000 Tote Quick Pick Showcase Handicap and carries the nap to get his head in front.
- At Ludlow, Maybeseven is awarded the nap vote in the Sara Hamilton-Russell Memorial Handicap Hurdle over three-and-a-quarter miles.
verbnaps, napped, napping nap [with object]British Name (a horse or greyhound) as a probable winner of a race. 〈英〉预测（赛马，赛狗）获胜 Harbinger is napped to win the Novices' Hurdle Example sentencesExamples - Motivator was napped by three of our pundits when a panel of experts were asked for their Derby 1-2 - 3s.
Phrases1Attempt to take all five tricks in nap. （纳普牌戏）冒险自报满贯，要全拿五墩 - 1.1Score or win five times.
大获全胜；屡战屡捷 Tranmere Rovers went nap to inflict a heavy 5–1 defeat on West Ham 特兰梅尔流浪者队大获全胜，5比1重创西汉姆联队。 Example sentencesExamples - Nestle Rowntree went nap as they won an eight-goal thriller away to Armley Athletic in the West Yorkshire League premier division - despite being a man down.
- A 15-minute spell had seen Barnet score four times and they made it five in the last seconds making sure the Bees went nap to leave Morecambe in a state of shock.
- But with Potter beaten again, Morecambe were prevented from going nap by a post.
- Black Dog Camblesforth were another side who went nap as they had a nine-goal shut-out against Yearsley Grove.
- Chamionship-chasing Nestlé Rowntree went nap against fierce cross-city rivals York RI at New Lane to keep up the pressure on West Yorkshire League leaders Carlton Athletic.
- Kirkdale United went nap to take over leadership of the first division of the RJF Homes-Beckett League.
- As the teams lined up for the second-half, BJFF had a mean hungry look about them and it wasn't long before they went nap.
- His shot took a nasty deflection to beat the keeper as the Shrimps went nap with moments to go.
- 1.2Risk everything in one attempt.
孤注一掷
OriginEarly 19th century: abbreviation of napoleon, the original name of the card game. verbnaps, napped, napping napnæp [no object](of a horse) refuse, especially habitually, to go on at the rider's instruction; jib. （马）（尤指习惯性地）不听从指令；徘徊不前 horses which nap should be dealt with by professionals Example sentencesExamples - She will be showing people how to deal with issues like jumping, biting, rearing and napping by ‘listening’ to their horse.
- At the first fence, he naps and runs out, and I hit him, and he bucked me off and was running around this field with me and the owners chasing after him.
- Vices, if they occur, like napping, can quickly be overcome, with no fear of getting the bit pulled through the mouth.
Origin1950s: back-formation from nappy, an adjective first used to describe heady beer (late Middle English), later used in the sense 'intoxicated by drink' (early 18th century), and since the 1920s used to describe a disobedient horse. verbnapnæp [no object]Sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day. （尤指在白天）小睡，打盹 Example sentencesExamples - Following lunch, he would nap for an hour.
- Make sure you relax enough but avoid cat napping.
- They take behavioral steps to compensate for the sleep loss, napping during the day or early evening.
- Sure, I think, I would be tired, but I could nap in the afternoon.
- I soon found an unconscious Charlie napping quite peacefully near a dimly lit grove.
- Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
- Mack was napping on the couch when Jack and Sam came into the living room.
- Kristen groaned loudly, wishing for a quiet time to nap peacefully.
- Rachel is napping on her couch in the middle of her run-down apartment.
- The younger participants also reported slightly more time napping but slightly poorer sleep quality than the older participants.
- I have no idea what I'm thinking or feeling about this, but I must be nervous, since I was up all night, and just napped very briefly today.
- His defence were napping once more and Shaun Varley was unchallenged as he guided in a header.
- I wondered if I had been glued to the bed, I could barely will myself to move, and then finally able to lift a limb or two, I turned over and felt into a sound sleep, napping for an hour.
- I figured that I could always nap in the early afternoon through West Virginia and Maryland.
- Why is it I sleep so much better napping during the day than I do at night?
- For many months he wouldn't settle, slept fitfully, never napped and as a result was tired, irritable and tiring.
- They would nap sometimes in the afternoon, but between lunch and dinner his brother always disappeared.
- All this activity did wonders for their sleeping habits; they napped easily and slept through the night the entire week.
- Her eyes were closed; she was probably napping again.
- I was very close to napping on the couch until he was done running around.
Synonyms doze, sleep, sleep lightly, take a nap, catnap, rest, take a siesta, drowse
nounnapnæp A short sleep, especially during the day. （尤指在白天）小睡，打盹 excuse me, I'll just take a little nap 对不起，我要小睡一会儿。 Example sentencesExamples - The second study showed that a 30-minute midday nap can reverse information overload.
- There was even an unofficial press tradition of a nap after lunch, when nothing much tended to happen.
- I think a mid evening power nap is the way forward.
- My nap was interrupted at about six that evening by a knock on my bedroom door.
- Take a vacation, nap on the couch - whatever helps you recharge your engine and stay fresh.
- I'll just take a nice long nap and you can wake me up in 2 hours.
- Well, it had been a busy afternoon, and I'd missed out on my nap after lunch.
- I groaned and rolled over as some obnoxious buzzing noise interrupted my nap.
- Do not nap during the day if this prevents sleeping well at night.
- The urge for a midday nap is built into your body's biological clock.
- When I woke up from my nap on the couch it was dark outside.
- I hope you've had a nice little nap, because I haven't slept in 24 hours.
- He doubted anyone would mind if he caught a brief nap before they set off this afternoon.
- Surely my 30 min power nap during the day shouldn't have given me that effect?
- If a 5-year-old gets adequate rest at night, he or she no longer needs a daytime nap.
- He took a short nap in the afternoon and that was all.
- And then we all had a nice long afternoon nap.
- Maybe a short little nap will help me think of what to say.
- I felt a little weary when I'd eaten, and had a short afternoon nap to rest up.
- Stop being such a party animal, and try taking a little cat nap.
- He manages to sneak in a 2-hour nap before dinner.
- By the age of four, most children no longer require a daytime nap.
- Some people call two hours of sleep a midday nap; I call it an accomplishment.
Synonyms sleep, light sleep, catnap, siesta, doze, lie-down, rest
Phrasesinformal (of a person, action, or event) find someone off guard and unprepared to respond. 〈非正式〉（动作，事件）发生在某人不备之时，发生在某人疏忽大意时 he caught the runner napping off second base and tagged him out Example sentencesExamples - I mean, you open the newspaper today and meningitis is across it many times and so we have been caught napping in terms of being arrogant enough to think that we've conquered infectious disease.
- Look, the administration said months ago that we were caught napping in this area.
- From the restart, Windermere were caught napping, however, when poor tackling let Workington drive up the centre of the park.
- The burghers of the town had been caught napping during the committee stages of the Bill.
- Several times throughout the first half, they were caught napping as the ball was played over, through and round them.
- Then 11 minutes from time City were caught napping again.
- With Celtic pushing forward for the equaliser they were caught napping three minutes from time, to give the visitors a some what fortunate win.
- He said: ‘I was caught napping that morning, the top three competitors stole a huge advantage over me which prevented me from challenging for a top three position.’
- Indeed, the inclusion of these fine players in the opposition ranks strengthened the Colne side and it was they who nearly opened the scoring as Ilkley were caught napping.
- Eventually, Manchester took a 2-1 lead before half time with an opportunist goal when a quickly-take free hit just inside the 22 caught Kendal napping for a second time.
Synonyms catch off guard, catch unawares, take by surprise, surprise, catch in an unguarded moment, catch out, find unprepared
OriginOld English hnappian, probably of Germanic origin. nounnapnæp The raised hairs, threads, or similar small projections on the surface of fabric or suede (used especially with reference to the direction in which they naturally lie) （织物、皮革表面的）绒毛 carefully machine the seam, following the direction of the nap 小心顺着绒毛把接缝处缝好。 Example sentencesExamples - With these pressing aids, the velvet is placed face down on the board and the raised surface of the board prevents crushing the nap.
- If the carpet is a dark color, a light sweeping sends the little grains into the nap, where they disappear from view.
- Flannelette is a soft cotton fabric with a nap on one side.
- It might have also had its nap raised by the use of teasels over the surface of the fabric.
- You can use it for fabric with a nap too - just put an arrow on it.
- Adapting this technique to fleece involves taking advantage of the fabric's loft and nap to simplify the process.
- His bare feet stepped on the thick nap of the plush carpet underfoot.
- Brushing the nap against the grain on the pieces that were hung the wrong way will sometimes provide a more uniform look.
- When woollen cloth was woven on a handloom the nap had to be combed in order to raise it.
- For wear purposes, would it be best to have the grain nap go across the chair back and cushion, or from back to front, or front to back?
- The fabric will smooth down if you are going with the nap (like stroking a cat).
- Brush blanket on both sides with stiff brush to raise nap, press binding, using synthetic setting on iron.
- Railroading means that the pattern or nap on the fabric goes from side to side of the roll rather than up the roll.
- Stitch all seams in the direction of the nap with right sides together.
- Even the red velvet cushions on each chair look untouched, brushed by the servants so that the nap is all in the same direction.
- Flannel wool is a soft, lightweight fabric with a nap on one or both sides.
Synonyms pile, fibres, threads, weave, shag, texture, feel, surface, grain
OriginLate Middle English noppe, from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German noppe ‘nap’, noppen ‘trim the nap from’. nap (sense 2 of the noun) is probably from knapsack. nounnapnæp A card game resembling whist in which players declare the number of tricks they expect to take, up to five. 纳普牌戏（类似惠斯特牌戏，玩家自报可赢之墩数，全胜五墩）
OriginEarly 19th century: abbreviation of napoleon, the original name of the card game. verbnapnæp [no object](of a horse) refuse, especially habitually, to go on at the rider's instruction; jib. （马）（尤指习惯性地）不听从指令；徘徊不前 horses which nap should be dealt with by professionals Example sentencesExamples - At the first fence, he naps and runs out, and I hit him, and he bucked me off and was running around this field with me and the owners chasing after him.
- Vices, if they occur, like napping, can quickly be overcome, with no fear of getting the bit pulled through the mouth.
- She will be showing people how to deal with issues like jumping, biting, rearing and napping by ‘listening’ to their horse.
Origin1950s: back-formation from nappy, an adjective first used to describe heady beer ( late Middle English), later used in the sense ‘intoxicated by drink’ (early 18th century), and since the 1920s used to describe a disobedient horse. |