sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slēp
ipa: /sliːp/
ipa: /slip/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: sleeps
Etymology: From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz (“sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: I really need some sleep.
text: We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
glosses: The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
examples: text: I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
glosses: An act or instance of sleeping.
examples: text: There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
glosses: A night.
examples: text: When she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and wept till she was tired, she set out on her way and walked for many, many a day, till she at last came to a big mountain.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233:
text: But it rings
And we rise,
Wipe the sleep out of our eyes[…]
ref: 1980, “Daydream Believer”performed by Anne Murray:
text: [...] and draw the medial canthus (aka medial commissure) at the medial extreme. Now draw the lacrimal caruncle at the medial corner of the eye, which produces whitish, oily fluid—it produces “sleep in the eye.”
ref: 2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.
ref: 2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 780, entry "Medial canthus"
glosses: 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).
examples: text: The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]
ref: 1843, Joh Müller, John Bell, Elements of Physiology, page 808:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: nyctinasty
nyctitropism
glosses: 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.
glosses: The hibernation of animals.
Synonyms: word: bed booger(s)
word: crusty
word: eye booger(s)
word: eye bogie(s)
word: eye crust
word: eye goop
word: eye gunk
word: eye sand
word: eye snot
word: gound
word: sleeper
word: sleepies
word: sleepy
word: sleepy booger(s)
word: sleepy dust
word: sleepy sand
Derived terms: ageless sleep
asleep
beauty sleep
big sleep
biphasic sleep
broken sleep
cold sleep
cry oneself to sleep
dead sleep
deep sleep
delayed sleep phase disorder
divided sleep
dog sleep
druidic sleep
electrosleep
eternal sleep
fox sleep
fox's sleep
good night's sleep
go to sleep
hybrid sleep
lack of sleep
lose sleep
morning sleep
no sleep for the wicked
one could do it in one's sleep
on sleep
orthodox sleep
paradoxical sleep
polyphasic sleep
put to sleep
REM sleep
scare-sleep
segmented sleep
sleepage
sleep aid
sleep apnea
sleep apnoea
sleep black
sleep camel
sleep-charged
sleep debt
sleep dep
sleep deprivation
sleep-deprived
sleep diaper
sleep disorder
sleep divorce
sleep-drunk
sleepeater
sleepful
sleep hygiene
sleep-in
sleep-learning
sleepless
sleep machine
sleep mask
sleep mode
sleep nappy
sleep of the just
sleepover
sleep paralysis
sleep pressure
sleep regression
sleep schedule
sleep shorts
sleep-shorts
sleep spindle
sleep start
sleeptalk
sleep talk
sleep terror
sleep tight
sleep twitch
sleepy
soul sleep
treacle sleep
twilight sleep
wake-sleep algorithm
yen sleep