Synonyms of the word

nap

• n. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
• v. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
• v. To be off one's guard.
• n. A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
• v. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
• n. (Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
• n. (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
• n. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
• v. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.
• v. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive).
• n. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.

cards

• n. plural of card.
• n. card games.

catnap

• n. A brief, light sleep.
• v. (intransitive) To take a catnap, to take a short sleep or nap.
• v. (transitive) To kidnap a cat.

kip

• n. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
• n. A bundle or set of such hides.
• n. (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
• n. The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
• n. (informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
• v. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or…
• v. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland) To snatch; take up hastily; filch.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conduct oneself; act.
• n. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally…
• n. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
• n. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
• n. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
• n. (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high…
• n. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
• n. (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

sleep

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
• v. (intransitive) (Of a spinning top or a yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
• v. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
• v. (transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).
• v. (intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated;…
• v. (computing, intransitive) to wait for a period of time without performing any action.
• n. (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
• n. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
• n. (uncountable) Rheum found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification…
• n. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and…

sleeping

• v. present participle of sleep.
• adj. Asleep.
• adj. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
• n. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

slumber

• n. A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
• n. (figuratively) A state of ignorance or inaction.
• v. (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
• v. (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.

snooze

• v. (intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
• v. (transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.
• n. A period of sleep; a nap.
• n. (informal) Something boring.

texture

• n. The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
• n. (art) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
• n. (computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
• n. (obsolete) The act or art of weaving.
• n. (obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
• n. (biology, obsolete) A tissue.
• v. to create or apply a texture.

thread

• n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving…
• n. A theme or idea.
• n. (engineering) A screw thread.
• n. A sequence of connections.
• n. The line midway between the banks of a stream.
• n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources…
• n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first…
• n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.
• n. (figuratively) Composition; quality; fineness.
• v. (transitive) To put thread through.
• v. (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
• v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt.

yarn

• n. (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
• n. (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands,…
• n. (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
• v. to tell a story.