napとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English nappen, from 古期英語 hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappōną (“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”)).

名詞

nap (複数形 naps)

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

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

派生語

• catnap
• dirt nap
• micronap

参考

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

動詞

nap (三人称単数 現在形 naps, 現在分詞 napping, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.

派生語

• catch napping

語源 2

From Middle English nappe, from Middle Dutch.

名詞

nap (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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, p. 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.

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.

動詞

nap (三人称単数 現在形 naps, 現在分詞 napping, 過去形および過去分詞形 napped)

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

語源 3

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

名詞

nap (複数形 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.

派生語

• go nap

語源 4

Possibly of North Germanic origin, cognate with nab, see Swedish nappa (“to pinch”).

動詞

nap (三人称単数 現在形 naps, 現在分詞 napping, 過去形および過去分詞形 napped)

1. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.

派生語

• kidnap

語源 5

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

動詞

nap (三人称単数 現在形 naps, 現在分詞 napping, 過去形および過去分詞形 napped)

1. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in 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.

語源 6

From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from 古期英語 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.

名詞

nap (複数形 naps)

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

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

アナグラム

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

接尾辞

-nap

1. Forming verbs with the sense of "abduct", or sometimes "abscond with".

使用する際の注意点

• Verbs formed with this suffix are typically found in their gerund-participle forms (in -napping), and in derived agent nouns in -napper).

派生語

• dognap (dognapper, dognapping)
• bossnap (bossnapper, bossnapping)

アナグラム

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