sleep

IPA: sɫˈip

noun

  • (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
  • (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
  • (informal, metonymically) A night.
  • (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
  • A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
  • The hibernation of animals.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
  • (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
  • (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
  • (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
  • (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
  • (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
  • (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
  • (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
  • (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
  • (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
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Examples of "sleep" in Sentences

  • The baby is sleeping.
  • The rest of the 4 hours is sleep.
  • They had nothing to do but to sleep at night.
  • That night, they hesitantly sleep in the same bed.
  • The rest of the day is spent traveling and sleeping.
  • She is capable of hypnotizing people into a deep sleep.
  • In the waking state, the state of deep sleep is a concept.
  • It spends the next fifteen days in a deep sleep, muttering to itself.
  • The boys could sleep in the bunks and try to scare the girls at night.
  • "I want sleep child," said Miss Webster, "I want _sleep_, leave me alone."
  • At night, his sleep was eased with a vaporizer emitting tincture of evergreen.
  • _A_ may go to sleep quicker than _B_, but cannot _do more sleep_ in a given time.
  • When we increase the hours of sleep, however, it does not follow that we actually _sleep_ more in the same proportion.
  • In fundamental contrast with those saws which assume that sleep is disturbed by dreams, we hold the _dream as the guardian of sleep_.
  • Sometimes her voice breaks the stillness of my chamber in the darkness of night, for I never sleep -- my brain is _too hot for sleep_.
  • III. iv.141 (479,5) You lack the season of all natures, sleep] I take the meaning to be, _you want sleep_, which _seasons_, or gives the relish to
  • Wake up… brush teeth… shower… breakfast… school [sleep] … come home… watch t. v… do homework… here my parents argue… eat dinner…. watch t. v…. finish homework… sleep…
  • V. i.1 (121,2) If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep] The sense is, _If I may only trust the_ honesty _of sleep_, which I know however not to be so nice as not often to practise _flattery_.
  • But this comment is for ANYONE who feels to be tired all the time and it doesn’t get better no matter how much sleep you get: talk to a doctor and get tested (via a sleep study) for sleep apnea (in the UK ’sleep apnoea’).

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