Nape
noun
The back part of the neck.
She rubbed the nape of her neck, feeling stiff after many hours at the computer.
Often appears as...
- nape of the neck
- brush the nape
noun
The back part of the neck.
She rubbed the nape of her neck, feeling stiff after many hours at the computer.
Often appears as...
- nape of the neck
- brush the nape
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Often used when describing a physical feeling on the neck, like touch or pain.
A shiver ran down the nape of my neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intimacy
Touching the nape can suggest closeness or affection in romantic contexts.
He gently caressed the nape of her neck.
Pro Tip 3/3Vulnerability
The nape can symbolize a vulnerable or exposed area, often in fiction or storytelling.
The hero's nape was exposed to the attacker.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Often used when describing a physical feeling on the neck, like touch or pain.
A shiver ran down the nape of my neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intimacy
Touching the nape can suggest closeness or affection in romantic contexts.
He gently caressed the nape of her neck.
Pro Tip 3/3Vulnerability
The nape can symbolize a vulnerable or exposed area, often in fiction or storytelling.
The hero's nape was exposed to the attacker.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Sensation
Often used when describing a physical feeling on the neck, like touch or pain.
A shiver ran down the nape of my neck.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intimacy
Touching the nape can suggest closeness or affection in romantic contexts.
He gently caressed the nape of her neck.
Pro Tip 3/3Vulnerability
The nape can symbolize a vulnerable or exposed area, often in fiction or storytelling.
The hero's nape was exposed to the attacker.
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Video examples
Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
quickly find each other, mate, go back into their hole for the next long stint of time. But then we started to find other fluorescent marine life, like this green fluorescent bream, with its, like, racing stripes along its head and its nape,
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The surprising reasons...
Other animals sacrifice their quail chicks that freeze while their kin run amok have a better chance of survival when pursued by a cat. Speaking of cats, feline mothers can pinch the napes of their kittens’ necks
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
that's a great idea now if the animals can hear me hopefully they can hopefully they give you on the obliging side of things I don't know I haven't seen one nape attract ah
Video examples
Glow-in-the-dark sharks...
quickly find each other, mate, go back into their hole for the next long stint of time. But then we started to find other fluorescent marine life, like this green fluorescent bream, with its, like, racing stripes along its head and its nape,
Video examples
The surprising reasons...
Other animals sacrifice their quail chicks that freeze while their kin run amok have a better chance of survival when pursued by a cat. Speaking of cats, feline mothers can pinch the napes of their kittens’ necks
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
that's a great idea now if the animals can hear me hopefully they can hopefully they give you on the obliging side of things I don't know I haven't seen one nape attract ah
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
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Jonathan Van Ness
American Entertainer
For keeping hair long and healthy, I like to use silk pillowcases; they conduct less heat and keep your ends less frayed. Also, I sleep with my hair in a very loose top bun to keep my ends away from my body heat. This also keeps your hair from getting tangled at the nape of your neck.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
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John Berger
English Artist
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.
Quote examples
Jonathan Van Ness
American Entertainer
For keeping hair long and healthy, I like to use silk pillowcases; they conduct less heat and keep your ends less frayed. Also, I sleep with my hair in a very loose top bun to keep my ends away from my body heat. This also keeps your hair from getting tangled at the nape of your neck.
Quote examples
Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
Quote examples
John Berger
English Artist
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.
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