Napping

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nap \Nap\ (n[a^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Napped} (n[a^]pt); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Napping} (n[a^]p"p[i^]ng).] [OE. nappen, AS.
     hn[ae]ppian to take a nap, to slumber; cf. AS. hnipian to
     bend one's self, Icel. hnipna, hn[imac]pa, to droop.]
     1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. --Chaucer.
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     2. To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as,
        to be caught napping. --Wyclif.
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              I took thee napping, unprepared.      --Hudibras.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Napping \Nap"ping\, n.
     1. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
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     2. (Hat Making) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is
        united to the hat body. --Knight.
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     3. The act or process of having a short sleep; as, napping is
        a common occupation for cats.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  napping
       See {nap}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nap
       n 1: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a
            little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: {sleep}]
       2: a soft or fuzzy surface texture
       3: 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" [syn: {pile}]
       4: a short sleep (usually not in bed) [syn: {catnap}, {cat
          sleep}, {forty winks}, {short sleep}, {snooze}]
       5: a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
          [syn: {Napoleon}]
       v : take a siesta; "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"
           [syn: {catnap}, {catch a wink}]
       [also: {napping}, {napped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  napping
       adj : not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping";
             "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his
             guard" [syn: {off-guard(a)}, {off guard(p)}, {off one's
             guard(p)}, {off his guard}, {off her guard}, {off your
             guard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "napping":
     a stranger to, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted,
     anesthetized, asleep, bemused, blind to, castle-building,
     cataleptic, caught napping, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy,
     dead to, deaf to, doped, dozy, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, drowsy,
     drugged, drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed,
     faraway, goofing off, half asleep, half-awake, heavy,
     heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, impercipient, in a reverie,
     in a stupor, in ignorance of, in the clouds, incautious,
     incognizant, insensible, insensible to, languid, lethargic, lost,
     lost in thought, meditative, mindless, mooning, moonraking,
     museful, musing, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous,
     nodding, nonconceiving, not with it, oblivious, off-guard,
     oscitant, out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt,
     sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen,
     sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy,
     somewhere else, somnolent, soporific, stargazing, stretchy,
     stuporose, stuporous, taken up, transported, unalert, unaware,
     unaware of, uncautious, unconscious, unconscious of, unguarded,
     unhearing, uninsightful, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of,
     unperceiving, unprehensive, unprepared, unready, unrealizing,
     unseeing, unsuspecting, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, unwitting,
     witless, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, yawning, yawny