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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sleptthe preterite of sleep.

    Silence! coeval with eternity,
    Thou wert ere nature first began to be,
    ’Twas one vast nothing all, and all slept fast in thee. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. slept

    Sleep is a sedentary state of mind and body. It is characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than a coma or disorders of consciousness, with sleep displaying different, active brain patterns. Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes: REM sleep and non-REM sleep. Although REM stands for "rapid eye movement", this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. Dreams are a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. During sleep, most of the body's systems are in an anabolic state, helping to restore the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems; these are vital processes that maintain mood, memory, and cognitive function, and play a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems. The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night. The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research. Sleep is a highly conserved behavior across animal evolution, likely going back hundreds of millions of years.Humans may suffer from various sleep disorders, including dyssomnias such as insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, and sleep apnea; parasomnias such as sleepwalking and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder; bruxism; and circadian rhythm sleep disorders. The use of artificial light has substantially altered humanity's sleep patterns. Common sources of artificial light include outdoor lighting and the screens of electronic devices such as smartphones and televisions, which emit large amounts of blue light, a form of light typically associated with daytime. This disrupts the release of the hormone melatonin needed to regulate the sleep-cycle.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slept

    of Sleep

  2. Slept

    imp. & p. p. of Sleep

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slept

    slept, pa.t. and pa.p. of sleep.

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  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'slept' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4267

Anagrams for slept »

  1. pelts

  2. spelt

  3. splet

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slept in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slept in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of slept in a Sentence

  1. Neil Parikh:

    We had everyone from a pregnant mother to an 80-year-old woman that hadn’t slept on anything but an armchair for a year because of surgery.

  2. Thailand Miguel Jimenez:

    I am disappointed to make bogey on the last, but... you're always happy when you're under par - and the more under par you are, the happier you are, i have the flu, and I'm very bunged up and slept terribly last night, but apart from that I'm fine.

  3. Kurt Schleicher:

    I guess you could say I’m getting to know my roommates, they left this earth in a stressful way, they were murdered while they slept, and their time was cut short, so I understand where they’re coming from.

  4. Woody Allen:

    It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

  5. Emerson Wickwire:

    The current study suggests a new potential explanation (hedonic eating) for weight gain among children who sleep less . . . in other words, kids in the study who slept less were more susceptible to unhealthy food cues in the environment.

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