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napping
English
Pronunciation
- Homophone: knapping
- Rhymes: -æp??
Verb
napping
- present participle of nap
See also
- catch napping
Noun
napping (plural nappings)
- The act of taking a nap or short sleep.
- 1993, Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Elizabeth Lipton Cobbs, Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Ambulatory geriatric care (page 552)
- Poor or inadequate sleep hygiene may contribute to difficulty falling asleep and may be a factor in sleep onset insomnia for elderly persons. This is most frequently caused by haphazard and irregular nappings.
- 1993, Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Elizabeth Lipton Cobbs, Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Ambulatory geriatric care (page 552)
- The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- nappyng, nappunge, nappinge, nappynge
Etymology
From Old English hnappung; equivalent to nappen +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?napin?/
Noun
napping
- (rare) Sleep, napping, slumbering.
- (rare) Sleepiness, tiredness.
References
- “napping(e, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.
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grasp
English
Etymology
From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English gr?psan (“to touch, feel”), from Proto-Germanic *graipis?n?. Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????sp/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æsp/
- Rhymes: -æsp
Verb
grasp (third-person singular simple present grasps, present participle grasping, simple past and past participle grasped)
- To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
- To understand.
- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Synonyms
- (grip): clasp, grip, hold tight; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (understand): comprehend, fathom
- (take advantage): jump at the chance, jump on
Derived terms
- begrasp
- foregrasp
- grasp the nettle
Related terms
Translations
Noun
grasp (plural grasps)
- (sometimes figuratively) Grip.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- Understanding.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
- There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 13:
- That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
Translations
Anagrams
- ARPGs, sprag
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