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  1. Sleepers

    Sleepers is a 1996 American legal drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. sleepers

    Timbers lying fore and aft in the bottom of the ship, now generally applied to the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter. They are particularly used in Greenland ships, to strengthen the bows and stern-frame, to enable them to resist the shocks of the ice. Also, any wooden beams used as supports. Also, ground tier casks.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. sleepers

    Small joists of timber, which form the foundation for the platform of a battery, and upon which the boards for the flooring are laid. Also, the undermost timbers of a gun or mortar.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sleepers in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sleepers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sleepers in a Sentence

  1. Chris Jones:

    They were not just awake, they were driven. It was torture for them to do nothing, they like to run marathons -- many of our natural short sleepers ran marathons -- including mountain marathons where you go straight up. One of them decided he was going to build a violin, and he did.

  2. Masaaki Kimura:

    I walked along the rail track looking for her, on the rail track, there were sleepers and gravel, so it was difficult for me.

  3. Peter Earnest:

    They were meant to be sleepers, typically an illegal sent to another country is a sleeper. He or she is available to handle a very sensitive asset, or in the case of wartime, or some sort of confrontation, be available.

  4. Jennifer Hung:

    The purpose of this research was originally to provide services( for the sleepers), but we found that there is no specific picture of the McRefugee situation in Hong Kong, they( government officials) acknowledged that there are no statistics, so we conducted this research.

  5. Jeff Anderson:

    That’s tantalizing because it suggests that maybe one of the things the short sleepers are doing in the scanner is performing memory consolidation more efficiently than non-short sleepers.

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