SLEEP
\slˈiːp], \slˈiːp], \s_l_ˈiː_p]\
Definitions of SLEEP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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be asleep
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be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"
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a torpid state resembling sleep
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a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
By Princeton University
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be asleep
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be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"
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a torpid state resembling sleep
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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imp. of Sleep. Slept.
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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.
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To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
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To be dead; to lie in the grave.
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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.
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To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
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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.
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To be slumbering in; - followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
By Oddity Software
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imp. of Sleep. Slept.
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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.
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To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
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To be dead; to lie in the grave.
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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.
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To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
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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.
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To be slumbering in; - followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
By Noah Webster.
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A readily reversible suspension of sensorimotor interaction with the environment, usually associated with recumbency and immobility.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A temporary, normal suspension of consciousness and will, occurring at regular intervals; slumber; rest; figuratively, death.
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To take rest in sleep; be motionless or inactive; be dead.
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To make go away by sleep; as, he slept away his pain; to make pass through sleep; as, she slept the day away; to shake off through sleep; as, he slept off the evil effects of the poison.
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Slept.
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Sleeping.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To take rest by relaxation: to become unconscious: to slumber: to rest: to be motionless or inactive: to remain unnoticed: to live thoughtlessly: to be dead: to rest in the grave:-pa.t. and pa.p. slept.
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The state of one who or that which sleeps: slumber: rest.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To rest or repose in (sleep); as, to sleep the sleep of death.
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To be asleep, dormant, or dead; slumber.
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A state or period of unconsciousness; slumber; repose.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Temporary interruption of our relations with external objects. A repose of the organs of sense, intellectual faculties, and voluntary motion. The act of quitting this condition is called awaking, (F.) Evigilation, Reveil. Sometimes this is progressive and natural; at others, sudden and starting; (F.) Reveil en sursaut,-as in nightmare, affections of the heart, hypochondriasis, &c.
By Robley Dunglison