Nap vs Nod - What's the difference?
nap | nod |
to have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day
to be off one's guard
* Hudibras
A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
* 1591 , , by William Shakespeare
*1851 ,
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 37:
to form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather)
(British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips
(uncountable, games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly (Napoleon)
(obsolete) to grab; to nab
(cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive)
* 2006 , Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs? :
(transitive, and, intransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To sway, move up and down.
* Keats
* 1819 "Frail snowdrops that together cling / and nod their helmets, smitten by the wing / of many a furious whirl-blast sweeping by." (Wordsworth, On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm )
To gradually fall asleep.
To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
(soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
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(figuratively) To allude to something.
* March 15 2012 , Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review]
(slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
An instance of moving one's head as described above.
A reference or allusion to something.
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As an initialism nap
is .As a noun nod is
node.nap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) nappen, from (etyl) ).Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* catnap * dirt napSee also
See for collocations of napVerb
(napp)- I took thee napping , unprepared.
- The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
Derived terms
* catch nappingSynonyms
* snooze * dozeEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from (etyl)Noun
(-)- I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
- 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.
- 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 .
Verb
(napp)Etymology 3
* From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France (Bonaparte)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go napEtymology 4
possibly Scandanavian, cognate with nab, see SwedishVerb
(napp)Derived terms
* kidnapEtymology 5
From (etyl) napper, from .Verb
(napp)- Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.
Anagrams
* * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----nod
English
Verb
(nodd)- By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
- Even Homer nods .
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- Though the title nods to the Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves—and Cyril, much like the father and son in that movie, spends much of his time tracking down the oft-stolen possession—The Kid With A Bike isn’t about the bike as something essential to his livelihood, but as his sole connection to the freedom and play of childhood itself.
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Much like Mirror Mirror'', ''Huntsman'' appears to borrow liberally from other fantasy films. Sometimes the nods are clever—Stewart’s first night in the forest, among hallucinatory fog that gives the trees faces and clutching hands, evokes Disney’s animated ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 1937. }}
