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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nap/
• (US) IPA^(key): /næp/
• Rhymes: -æp
• Homophone: knap

Etymology 1

From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Germanic *hnapp?n? (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (whence Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) whence German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)).

Noun

nap (plural naps)

2. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shut-eye, Thesaurus:sleep

Derived terms

• catnap
• dirt nap
• micronap
• napless

Translations

See also

See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for collocations of nap.

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.

   Synonyms: snooze, doze

2. (figuratively) To be off one's guard.
   • a. 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras

     I took thee napping, unprepared.

Derived terms

• catch napping

Translations

Etymology 2

From late Middle English noppe, nappe, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin. Related to the first element of knapsack.

Noun

nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)

2. A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
   • 1591, King Henry VI part II, by William Shakespeare:

     I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16:

     On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 37:

     There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.

   • 1961, Skyline, page 9:

     THEY CALL IT the "nap of the Earth," that area from the ground to the level of surrounding trees and hills, the thin rug of foliage and rock folds at the Earth's skin line that has become all-important to the United States Army.

   • 1987, Some Data Processing Requirements for Precision Nap-Of-the-Earth (NOE) Guidance and Control of Rotorcraft:

     If incorporated in automatic guidance, this practical pursuit adjustment will enhance pilot acceptance of automatic guidance in following nap-of-the-earth profiles with precision.

4. 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.

   • 1969, Classic Car, volumes 17-19, page 32:

     Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.

Derived terms

• napless

Translations

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

Etymology 3

From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France.

Noun

nap (plural naps)

2. (Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
3. (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
4. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.

Derived terms

• go nap

Translations

Etymology 4

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”). Related to nab.

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.

Derived terms

• kidnap

Etymology 5

From French napper, from nappe (“nape”).

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

1. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
   • 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs:

     Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.

Etymology 6

From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from Old English hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). See also nappy.

Noun

nap (plural naps)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• ANP, NPA, PAN, PNA, Pan, Pan., anp, pan, pan-

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan nap, from Latin n?pus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?nap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Noun

nap m (plural naps)

1. turnip, Brassica rapa

Chuukese

Adjective

nap

1. great

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nap, from Old Dutch nap, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Hyphenation: nap
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

nap m (plural nappen, diminutive napje n)

1. drinking cup

Derived terms

• bedelnap
• zuignap

Anagrams

• pan

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n?p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

nap (plural napok)

2. day

4. sun (also written Nap in astronomical context)

5. (attributive) solar

Usage notes

(day):

(sun): Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil; Earth”)??Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite; Moon”)??Hold (“our Moon”), and nap (“day; sun; Sun”)??Nap (“our Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlít? (“equator”)??Egyenlít? (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system”)??Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)??Tejút (“Milky Way”).^[1][2][3]

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• nap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hnæpp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz.

Alternative forms

• nep, nappe, neppe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nap/

Noun

nap (plural nappes)

2. A bowl for one's beverages; a chalice.

Descendants

• English: nap (now dialectal)
• Scots: nap

References

• “nap, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

Etymology 2

A back-formation from nappen.

Alternative forms

• nappe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nap/

Noun

nap

2. A nap or doze; a short sleep.

Descendants

• English: nap
• Scots: nap
• Yola: nappe

References

• “nap, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.

Etymology 3

Verb

nap

1. Alternative form of nappen

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan nap, from Latin n?pus.

Noun

nap m (plural naps)

1. turnip (Brassica rapa)

Derived terms

• nap del diable

References

• Arve Cassignac, L'Occitan de Comunicason, 2019

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin n?pus.

Noun

nap m (plural napi)

1. turnip or swede (Brassica napus)
2. carrot

Declension

See also

• navet?
• rapi??
• sfecl?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??p/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /wo?p/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p

Etymology 1

From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warp? (“a warp”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Noun

warp (countable and uncountable, plural warps)

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
   1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
      • 1920, The British Journal of Photography, volume 67, page 246:

        All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them.

      • 2001, Roland Johnson, Automotive Woodworking : Restoration, Repair and Replacement ?ISBN:

        Rough lumber is rarely perfectly straight, and may suffer from warp,

      • 1992, Innovation, volumes 11-12, page 32:

        The part is not fragile, does not need benching to remove "stair-stepping" on curved surfaces and does not need post curing. It does not suffer from warp, sag or curl.

      • 1992, Progrès scientifique au service du bois (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations. Division 5. Conference), page 503:

        […] and Senft found that the fibril angle in both the Pinus and Populus was high in juvenile wood, indicating that both are likely to exhibit warp in drying.

   2. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
      • 1933, Journal of the National Proctologic Association, volume 6, issue 5, page 126:

        He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision.

      • 1966, Man and International Relations: Conflict, page 306:

        […] and may discover that the potency of this politician-father had so altered the freedom with which corrective authority could be imposed on his son that to an extraordinary extent the person as an adult continues to suffer from warp acquired at home as a child.

2. (countable) A distortion:
   1. (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
      • 1998, Gary May, Hard Oiler!: The Story of Canadians' Quest for Oil at Home, page 86:

        Wills, too, was struck down by a pole but was saved because a warp in the wood bent upwards, creating a pocket for his body.

      • 2014, July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914, page 396:

        In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction.

   2. (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
      • 1905, Therapeutic Gazette, page 752:

        It is interesting to note that it has been suggested by Lugaro to partially extirpate the thyroid in cases of moral insanity; an excessive secretion of thyroid being regarded as the cause of excessive amativeness, thieving, and other mental warps […]

4. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
5. (figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
   • 1993, The Sociological Tradition ?ISBN, page 251:

     The sense of sin (enforced by piacular rites) is as important to social integration as the committing of crimes (in due proportion) which alone can cause the mobilization of moral values that is the warp of society and of human conscience.

   • 2013, The WPA Guide to North Carolina: The Tar Heel State, page 388:

     This stretch is typical of the Piedmont section, where the warp of the economic structure is agriculture and the woof industry.

6. (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pp. 11-12,^[1]

     We finish’d the Raft that Night, and in the Morning sent Mr. Prat, our Chief Mate, and four Men in the Boat with a long Rope for a Warp, to fasten on the Land.

   • 1966, Peter Tangvald, Sea Gypsy, page 24:

     […] trailed one of my sea anchors or at least some warps in order to ease the ship […]

7. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
8. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
   • 2003, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon, page 67:

     If Times Square nevertheless remained a metaphor for the city's changing dynamics, it was stuck in a warp of immobility, unable to push itself forward as it had in the early part of the twentieth century.

   • 2012, Sîan Ede, Art and Science, page 68:

     Evolutionary psychology often seems to be stuck in a warp on the grassy African plains, even though we know that early humans didn't stay on the Savannah but moved from around 2 million years ago out of Africa into quite different terrains.

   • 2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three, page 105:

     To succeed routinely at mind-reading or telekinesis or love charms would result in no learning, no amusement, no spiritual growth (for a companion parable, check out Bill Murray's Groundhog Day). We would be stuck in a warp […]

9. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
   • 1902, C. K. Eddowes, speaking before the Royal Commission on Salmon Fisheries, as recorded in the Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, volume 13, page 99:

     The silt is brought down and the strong tide of the Humber brings it up in very large quantities, so that the river the whole way through nearly is exceedingly thick. Added to that I may say that we suffer from warp to a tremendous extent.

10. (obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.

    a warp of fish

Derived terms

• warp and weft
• warp and woof
• warp drive
• warp factor
• time warp

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw, cast, cast down, cast away, throw off, throw out, expel, throw upon, throw open, drive away, sprinkle, hit, hand over, lay hands on (a person), cast lots, charge with, accuse of”), from Proto-Germanic *werpan? (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

Verb

warp (third-person singular simple present warps, present participle warping, simple past and past participle warped)

1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally:
   1. (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.

      The moisture warped the board badly .

      to warp space and time

      The trauma had permanently warped her mind.

      • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

        The planks looked warped.

      • Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
   2. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.

      Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced.

      • 1694, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

        They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.

   3. (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.

      His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences.

      • This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.

      • April 16, 1714, Joseph Addison, The Reader

        I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.

      • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

        We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
   4. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
   • 1830, William Burney, A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine:

     The usual method is to warp the yarn, either in whole or half hauls, […]

   • 1852, Thomas Antisell, Hand-book of the Useful Arts: Including Agriculture, page 541:

     The next part of the process previous to tarring, is that of warping the yarns, or stretching them all to one length.

3. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
4. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figuratively) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
   • 1628, Thomas Sternhold, The Whole Book of Psalms

     whiles lie doth he mischief warp

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   • 1602, Philemon Holland, translating Plutarch's Moralia, page 409:

     She acquainted the Greeks underhand with this treason, which was a warping against them.

5. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
   • 1860, Robert Barnabas Brough, The Welcome Guest, page 273:

     On came the sleet, and hail, and snow, in thorough good earnest; on came the bitter biting wind, which is not so unkind as man's ingratitude; on came the frost, which warps the waters, but whose bite is not so nigh as benefits forgot,

   • 1876, Shakespeare's Comedy of As You Like it, page 134:

     Warp—contract and shrivel (here by freezing; in III, iii, 75, by drought). In the Thesaurus Linguarum of George Hicken, D.D., the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, 1642-1715, the Saxon proverb 'Winter shall warp water' is quoted, showing that the meaning of this word here is 'weave into a firm texture.' Propertius uses the same simile: 'Africus, in glaciem frigore nectit aquas.'—Elegies, IV, iii. (The south-west wind warps the waters into ice by its chilness.)

6. To move:
   1. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
      • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

        We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island. […]

      • 2011, Derek Lundy, The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days:

        At slack tide, the crew warped the ship into the lock that lowered the vessel down to river height,

   2. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
      • 1777, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World:

        Having all our boats out with anchors and warps in them, which were presently run out, the ship warped into safety, where we dropt anchor for the night.

      • 2009, Arthur Kitson, The Life of Captain James Cook, page 148:

        A good anchorage was found at Tanna, and the ship warped close in.

   3. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
      • 1844, William Harper, Cain and Abel: a dramatic poem; and minor pieces, page 74:

        Thou know'st, with trumpet tongue, they'll speak, despite / Detracting foes, unnumbered as the tribes / Of horned locusts, warped on dusky winds, […]

      • 1884, John Addington Symonds, Vagabunduli Libellus, page 148:

        Pink cloudlets sail across the azure sky; The bees warp lazily on laden wing; […]

      • 1941, Harper's Magazine, volume 184, page 421:

        Many bees warped and spun about us, and some even alighted on Grandfather's bare head, or on his neck. He did not disturb them.

   4. (transitive, intransitive) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
      • 2004, Travis S. Taylor, Warp Speed ?ISBN:

        Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock.

      • 2012, Jonathan Henry, The Revelation of Earth: First Contact, page 188:

        Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet.

7. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
   • 1757, Edward Lisle, Observations in husbandry, volume 2, pages 113 and 200:

     They count a cow's warping her calf a month before her time not to be so bad as an ewe's losing her lamb.

     […]

     [A]n ewe that had warped her lamb very early might sometimes have another within the year[.]

   • 1807, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester, page 297:

     Some cows are perhaps by constitutional weakness, or bodily imperfection, more liable to warp than others; […]

   • 1846, The Gardeners' Chronicle, volume 6, page 346:

     It was caused in the first instance by a single cow, which was purchased at a fair, and which cow warped, and it was only got rid of at last by changing the whole herd.

8. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
   • 1901 February 23, Yorkshire Weekly Post, quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary:

     Large fields are surrounded by embankments, dykes are cut, and sluice hates placed; when warping is in progress the gates all along the dykes to the tidal river, miles away, are opened.

9. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.
   • 1822, James Hogg, Poetical Works, volume 2, page 144:

     They warped all his bowels about on the tide.

   • 1969, Intro, issue 2, page 164:

     time and again / i write you of our love for Jarrell. / the wind warps me in your tree / Delmore […]

Derived terms

• warped (adjective)

Translations

Further reading

• warp at OneLook Dictionary Search
• warp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• wrap

Middle Dutch

Verb

warp

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of werpen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• warpe, werp, werpe, werppe

Etymology

From Old English wearp, warp, from Proto-West Germanic *warp, from Proto-Germanic *warp?. Related to werpen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /warp/, /w?rp/

Noun

warp

1. warp (lengthwise threads)
2. warp thread
3. (rare) weft (horizontal threads)
4. (rare) cast of fish
5. (nautical, rare) rope for hauling ships

Descendants

• English: warp
• Scots: warp

References

• “warp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.