What's the difference between jape and nape?

Jape


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
  • (v. t.) To mock; to trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Impassioned shouty pointy Arsenal man, Romelu Lukaku's hotel japes and Jonathan de Guzman giving Dirk Kuyt a very black eye are all part of this week's Classic YouTube .
  • (2) Mel and Sue, providing jolly japes about buns and so on, are just like Ant'n'Dec for the Guardian reader.
  • (3) Gray drew strongly on his relationship with his brother, 10 years his junior and also a writer and academic, for Japes, his 2001 success.
  • (4) And although we undertook the exercise as a bit of a jape, something else about the results stood out: the greatest talking up of a turnaround was in the rightwing papers.
  • (5) She even had Alexa, an old children's home pal, turn up for some japes.
  • (6) In fact, there was a sinking feeling once the japes of his final show – the tandem trip with Boris, the guest gag with Michael Howard, the signoff weather forecast – took hold.
  • (7) He dressed up as Santa Claus He made both managers wear festive hats He replaced the pre-match coin toss with a Christmas cracker What japes He gave every mascot a mince pie Lionel Messi was born in which city?
  • (8) Actually, the Mill just threw in that last one for japes.
  • (9) Where once there were pub japes, there are now spreadsheets.
  • (10) Farewell to the awful swotters, dirty tinkers and jolly japes: Enid Blyton's language is being dragged out of the 1940s by her publisher in an attempt to give her books greater appeal for today's children.
  • (11) Elise Andrew is "overwhelmed" and "blown away" when she looks at the Facebook page she created as a jape and which has nearly 7 million likes and more than 3 million "talking abouts" and fans including evolutionary biologist and writer Richard Dawkins and TV host Bill Nye, "the science guy".
  • (12) It was to mark the beginning of the final flowering of his career, during which he wrote three of his finest plays, including The Late Middle Classes and, latterly, Japes.
  • (13) Not to mention a fart machine and ­perpetrator of other mad, pointless and preposterous one-time-use pranks, japes and wheezes.
  • (14) Gray confidently and, as it turned out, inaccurately, predicted that Japes would be his last play.
  • (15) But behind the jokes and japes lies an unpleasant party founded on fear, one that exploits the anxiety of older voters and is proving to be a profoundly corrosive influence on British politics.
  • (16) Mulberry had fun with storybooks, English boarding school japes and a pooch on the catwalk wearing the label's most luxurious dog-wear to date, a sheepskin-trimmed and padded parka jacket; Anya Hindmarch themed her collection on Quality Street wrappers, provided a tea trolley and rode a bicycle.
  • (17) asks JUSTIN SPENCER, whose caps lock button appears to have been glued down by a colleague as part of some hilarious office jape.
  • (18) This, though, is the light stuff: university japes, boys being boys.
  • (19) Let's preserve the mystery and say only that what Richard did falls outside the category of jolly japes.
  • (20) When he brought George W Bush to the constituency in 2003 , the US president’s twin black Sikorsky helicopters had to land in a nearby field, before Dubya alighted for the jape of seeing how a British leader lived.

Nape


Definition:

  • (n.) The back part of the neck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
  • (2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
  • (3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
  • (4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
  • (5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
  • (6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
  • (7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
  • (8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
  • (9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
  • (10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
  • (11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
  • (12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
  • (13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
  • (14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
  • (15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
  • (16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
  • (17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
  • (18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
  • (19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
  • (20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.