transcription, транскрипция: [ næp ]
( naps, napping, napped)
1.
If you have a nap , you have a short sleep, usually during the day.
Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair...
I might take a little nap.
= snooze, doze
N-COUNT
2.
If you nap , you sleep for a short period of time, usually during the day.
An elderly person may nap during the day and then sleep only five hours a night.
= doze
VERB : V
3.
The nap of a carpet or of a cloth such as velvet is the top layer of short threads, which usually lie smoothly in one direction.
N-SING
4.
If someone is caught napping , something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been. ( INFORMAL )
The security services were clearly caught napping.
PHRASE : V inflects