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’).