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Definition of 'sleep'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) sleep
to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; to cease being awake.

2.  sleep
Bot. to assume, esp. at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.

3.  sleep
to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.

4.  sleep
to allow one's alertness or attentiveness to lie dormant.

5.  sleep
to lie in death.

6. (v.t.) sleep
to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep):
to sleep the sleep of the innocent.

7.  sleep
to have sleeping accommodations for:
This trailer sleeps three people.

8.  sleep
sleep around, to be sexually promiscuous.

9.  sleep
to spend or pass (time) in sleep.

10.  sleep
sleep in,

11.  sleep
(of domestic help) to sleep where one is employed.

12.  sleep
to sleep beyond one's usual time of arising.

13.  sleep
sleep on, to postpone making a decision about for at least a day.

14.  sleep
sleep out,

15.  sleep
(of domestic help) to sleep away from one's place of employment.

16.  sleep
sleep over, to sleep in another person's home.

17.  sleep
sleep together, to be sexual partners.

18.  sleep
sleep with, to have sexual relations with.

19. (n.) sleep
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.

20.  sleep
a period of sleeping.

21.  sleep
dormancy or inactivity.

22.  sleep
the repose of death.

Etymology: (bef. 900; (v.) ME slepen, OE slēpan, slæmacr;pan, slāpan, c. OHG

Definition of 'sleep'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sleep, slumber
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
"he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

2. (noun) sleep, sopor
a torpid state resembling deep sleep

3. (noun) sleep, nap
a period of time spent sleeping
"he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"

4. (verb) rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
"she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

5. (verb) sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's
be asleep

6. (verb) sleep
be able to accommodate for sleeping
"This tent sleeps six people"

Definition of 'sleep'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sleep
to close your eyes and go into a deep state of rest, usually at night
The boy slept for 12 hours.; to sleep well/badly

2.  sleep
sleep tight
used to tell sb to sleep well

3.  sleep
(of a house or room) to have beds for a particular number of people
The house sleeps eight comfortably.

4. (noun) sleep
the state of being asleep
Try to get some sleep.

5.  sleep
go to sleep
to begin sleeping
It took me a long time to go to sleep.

6.  sleep
put sb to sleep
to make sb start sleeping
The class was so boring, it put me to sleep.

7.  sleep
in your sleep
while you are sleeping
She talks in her sleep.

8.  sleep
can/could do sth in your sleep
indicates sth is very easy for sb
I could take the test in my sleep.

9.  sleep
go to sleep
(of part of your body) to become numb because of lack of blood
My whole left leg went to sleep.

10.  sleep
not lose sleep over
to not be worried or bothered about
We lost one game - I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

11.  sleep
put sth to sleep
to kill an injured or dying animal with an injection of drugs
They had to put the dog to sleep.

Definition of 'sleep'

Webster Dictionary

1. sleep
imp. of Sleep. Slept

2. (verb) sleep
to take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber

3. (verb) sleep
to be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly

4. (verb) sleep
to be dead; to lie in the grave

5. (verb) sleep
to be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps

6. (verb) sleep
to be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep

7. (verb) sleep
to give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge

8. (verb) sleep
a natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state

Definitions of 'sleep'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. sleep
1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses.

2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. block; also in sleep on, syn.: with block on. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: “They can't get the fix I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again.”

Definition of 'sleep'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. sleep
A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.

Translation of 'sleep'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to rest with the eyes closed and in a state of natural unconsciousness Goodnight; – sleep well!; I can't sleep; – my mind is too active.
Afrikaans: slaap	Arabic: يَنام	Bulgarian: спя
Brazilian: dormir	Czech: spát	German: schlafen
Danish: sove	Greek: κοιμάμαι	Spanish: dormir
Estonian: magama	Farsi: خوابيدن	Finnish: nukkua
French: dormir	Hebrew: לִישוֹן	Hindi: सोना
Croatian: spavati	Hungarian: alszik	Indonesian: tidur
Icelandic: sofa	Italian: dormire	Japanese: 眠る
Korean: 잠자다	Lithuanian: miegoti	Latvian: gulēt (miegā)
Malay: tidur	Dutch: slapen	Norwegian: sove
Polish: spać	Persian: خوابيدن	Pashto: ويديدل، خوب وړل
Portuguese: dormir	Romanian: a dormi	Russian: спать
Slovak: spať	Slovenian: spati	Serbian: spavati
Swedish: sova	Thai: หลับ	Turkish: uyumak
Taiwanese: 睡覺	Ukrainian: спати, засинати	Urdu: سونا، نیند لینا
Vietnamese: ngủ	Chinese: 睡眠
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