Nap vs Nop - What's the difference?
nap | nop |
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? :
(programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
* 1999 , Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run
* 2004 , Patterson et al'', ''Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
(programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
* 1992 , The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual
As an initialism nap
is .As a noun nop is
(programming) a no-op; a cpu instruction that does nothing.As a verb nop is
(programming) to replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.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 ----nop
English
Noun
(en noun)- The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops , since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
- Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.
Verb
(en-verb)- For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.