Napkin
noun
A square piece of cloth or paper used at a meal to wipe the fingers or lips.
Can you pass me a napkin, please?
Often appears as...
- paper napkin
- cloth napkin
noun
A diaper or nappy for a baby.
She changed the baby's napkin.
Often appears as...
- change a napkin
- dirty napkin
noun
A sanitary towel.
She asked for a napkin at the drugstore.
Often appears as...
- sanitary napkin
- feminine napkin
noun
A square piece of cloth or paper used at a meal to wipe the fingers or lips.
Can you pass me a napkin, please?
Often appears as...
- paper napkin
- cloth napkin
noun
A diaper or nappy for a baby.
She changed the baby's napkin.
Often appears as...
- change a napkin
- dirty napkin
noun
A sanitary towel.
She asked for a napkin at the drugstore.
Often appears as...
- sanitary napkin
- feminine napkin
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Mealtime Manners
Napkins are associated with politeness and cleanliness during meals.
He neatly placed the napkin on his lap before eating.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
The term 'napkin' can refer to both reusable cloth and disposable paper types.
For the barbecue, we'll use paper napkins instead of cloth ones.
Pro Tip 3/3Setting Tables
In formal dining, napkins are usually folded elegantly and placed on the plate.
She learned to fold napkins into swans for the festive table setting.
Pro Tip 1/3Mealtime Manners
Napkins are associated with politeness and cleanliness during meals.
He neatly placed the napkin on his lap before eating.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
The term 'napkin' can refer to both reusable cloth and disposable paper types.
For the barbecue, we'll use paper napkins instead of cloth ones.
Pro Tip 3/3Setting Tables
In formal dining, napkins are usually folded elegantly and placed on the plate.
She learned to fold napkins into swans for the festive table setting.
Pro Tip 1/3Mealtime Manners
Napkins are associated with politeness and cleanliness during meals.
He neatly placed the napkin on his lap before eating.
Pro Tip 2/3Material Matters
The term 'napkin' can refer to both reusable cloth and disposable paper types.
For the barbecue, we'll use paper napkins instead of cloth ones.
Pro Tip 3/3Setting Tables
In formal dining, napkins are usually folded elegantly and placed on the plate.
She learned to fold napkins into swans for the festive table setting.
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How to set the table -...
Lastly, the napkin traditionally goes to the left of the forks, though it's okay to put it underneath them, too. For a fancier meal like this one that takes up a lot of space, we'll put it in the middle. Now we're ready to eat. Hopefully these tips will be helpful the next time you're asked to help set the table
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Dan Phillips: Creative...
He said human beings act differently when they know they're alone than when they know somebody else is around. So if I'm eating spaghetti, and I know I'm alone, I can eat like a backhoe. I can wipe my mouth on my sleeve, napkin on the table, chew with my mouth open, make little noises, scratch wherever I want.
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Erika Larsen: The...
And she drew a map on a napkin, and she said, 'Just follow this map and you'll find him.' - - I said, 'Okay.' So, I drove about an hour to rail-- railroad tracks, it was like the main marker on the map. I drove to the railroad tracks and put on my backpack. And, parked the car and put on my backpack
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Ray Kurzweil: Get ready...
and it's still a thin structure. It's about the thickness of a table napkin. But it has so many convolutions and ridges it's now 80 percent of our brain, and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations,
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Arunachalam Muruganantham...
Then I spend another four years to create my own machine tools, a simple machine tool like this. In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant, anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall. That is my invention.
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How design can help make...
help out at the restaurants making Thai iced tea in the kitchen or folding napkins or bringing people to their table my dad loved growing the business but what he loved most was connecting people to Thai culture and giving them new and wonderful experiences my mother
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Folding way-new origami...
simple laws give rise to that kind of complexity but indeed the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin and yet they govern all of chemistry all of life all of history if we obey these laws we can do amazing things so an origami to obey these laws
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How to build a fictional...
on the real world that resumes only when the final squiggle is reached? I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question, yet fantastical, fictional worlds are created everyday in our minds, on computers, even on napkins at the restaurant down the street.
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The math and magic of...
But indeed, the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin, and yet they govern all of chemistry, all of life, all of history. If we obey these laws, we can do amazing things. So in origami, to obey these laws, we can take simple patterns --
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Aris Venetikidis: Making...
and you are all capable of creating these cognitive maps yourselves. So next time, when you want to tell your friend how to get to your place, you grab a beermat, grab a napkin, and you just observe yourself
Video examples
How to set the table -...
Lastly, the napkin traditionally goes to the left of the forks, though it's okay to put it underneath them, too. For a fancier meal like this one that takes up a lot of space, we'll put it in the middle. Now we're ready to eat. Hopefully these tips will be helpful the next time you're asked to help set the table
Video examples
Dan Phillips: Creative...
He said human beings act differently when they know they're alone than when they know somebody else is around. So if I'm eating spaghetti, and I know I'm alone, I can eat like a backhoe. I can wipe my mouth on my sleeve, napkin on the table, chew with my mouth open, make little noises, scratch wherever I want.
Video examples
Erika Larsen: The...
And she drew a map on a napkin, and she said, 'Just follow this map and you'll find him.' - - I said, 'Okay.' So, I drove about an hour to rail-- railroad tracks, it was like the main marker on the map. I drove to the railroad tracks and put on my backpack. And, parked the car and put on my backpack
Video examples
Ray Kurzweil: Get ready...
and it's still a thin structure. It's about the thickness of a table napkin. But it has so many convolutions and ridges it's now 80 percent of our brain, and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations,
Video examples
Arunachalam Muruganantham...
Then I spend another four years to create my own machine tools, a simple machine tool like this. In this machine, any rural woman can apply the same raw materials that they are processing in the multinational plant, anyone can make a world-class napkin at your dining hall. That is my invention.
Video examples
How design can help make...
help out at the restaurants making Thai iced tea in the kitchen or folding napkins or bringing people to their table my dad loved growing the business but what he loved most was connecting people to Thai culture and giving them new and wonderful experiences my mother
Video examples
Folding way-new origami...
simple laws give rise to that kind of complexity but indeed the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin and yet they govern all of chemistry all of life all of history if we obey these laws we can do amazing things so an origami to obey these laws
Video examples
How to build a fictional...
on the real world that resumes only when the final squiggle is reached? I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question, yet fantastical, fictional worlds are created everyday in our minds, on computers, even on napkins at the restaurant down the street.
Video examples
The math and magic of...
But indeed, the laws of quantum mechanics can be written down on a napkin, and yet they govern all of chemistry, all of life, all of history. If we obey these laws, we can do amazing things. So in origami, to obey these laws, we can take simple patterns --
Video examples
Aris Venetikidis: Making...
and you are all capable of creating these cognitive maps yourselves. So next time, when you want to tell your friend how to get to your place, you grab a beermat, grab a napkin, and you just observe yourself
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Rande Gerber
American Businessman
Oh, the secret of a great club is all in the detail. When I walk into one of my bars, I have to have all my napkins a certain way and all the pourers in the bottles facing a certain way. It drives some people crazy, but I figure if I notice something's off, then other people will notice it, too.
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Robert Krulwich
American Journalist
If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.
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Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.
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Rachel Nichols
American Actress
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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Tom Colicchio
American Chef
Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.
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Iggy Azalea
Australian Musician
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Chuck Berry
American Musician
I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.
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Walter Winchell
American Journalist
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Mae West
American Actress
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Quote examples
Rande Gerber
American Businessman
Oh, the secret of a great club is all in the detail. When I walk into one of my bars, I have to have all my napkins a certain way and all the pourers in the bottles facing a certain way. It drives some people crazy, but I figure if I notice something's off, then other people will notice it, too.
Quote examples
Robert Krulwich
American Journalist
If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.
Quote examples
Roseanne Barr
American Actress
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.
Quote examples
Rachel Nichols
American Actress
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.
Quote examples
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Quote examples
Tom Colicchio
American Chef
Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.
Quote examples
Iggy Azalea
Australian Musician
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Chuck Berry
American Musician
I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.
Quote examples
Walter Winchell
American Journalist
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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Mae West
American Actress
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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