sleep
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan (West Saxon Old English slǣpan), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (“to sleep”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian sleepe, sliap, sliip, släipe (“to sleep”), Saterland Frisian släipe (“to sleep”), West Frisian sliepe (“to sleep”), Alemannic German schlaaffe, schlaafä, schlafe, schloafe, schloafen, schlofe, schlàfu (“to sleep”), Bavarian schlofn, schlåfn, sghlofn (“to sleep”), Central Franconian schlofe (“to sleep”), Cimbrian slaafan, slafan, slavan (“to sleep”), Dutch and Low German slapen (“to sleep”), German schlafen (“to sleep”), Limburgish schloëpe, slaope (“to sleep”), Luxembourgish schlofen (“to sleep”), Mòcheno schloven (“to sleep”), Vilamovian šłȫfa, śłöfa (“to sleep”), Yiddish שלאָפֿן (shlofn, “to sleep”), Crimean Gothic schlipen (“to sleep”), Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 (slēpan, “to sleep”).
Inflected forms:
form: sleeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sleepest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sleptst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sleptest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: sleeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleepeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: sleep
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: sleeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slept
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleepe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sleeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleepe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You should sleep eight hours a day.
We sleep in the bedroom.
gloss: To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
examples: Last night we slept together for the first time.
gloss: To accommodate in beds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.
gloss: To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
examples: We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.
Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.
gloss: To be dead.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
intransitive
examples: For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.
It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.
Then bury me beneath the willow
Beneath the weeping willow tree
And when he knows that I am sleeping
Perhaps he will weep for me
gloss: To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
How ſweet the moone-light ſleepes vpon this banke,[…]
gloss: To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
gloss: To place into a state of hibernation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.
gloss: To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
gloss: To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
gloss: The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I really need some sleep.
We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
gloss: An act or instance of sleeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
a sound night’s sleep
gloss: A night.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
metonymically
uncountable
examples: There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
But it rings
And we rise,
Wipe the sleep out of our eyes[…]
[...] 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.”
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]
gloss: The hibernation of animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: crash
doze
repose
rest
saw logs
catch some z's
sleep
sleep a wink
slumber
snooze
bed booger(s)
crusty
eye booger(s)
eye bogie(s)
eye crust
eye goop
eye gunk
eye sand
eye snot
gound
sleeper
sleepies
sleepy
sleepy booger(s)
sleepy dust
sleepy sand
Related words: catnap
rest
shuteye
sleeping
slumber
snooze
zzz
count sheep
shut-eye
fall asleep
go to bed
wake
sleepy
soporific
Derived words: besleep
coldsleep
cosleep
does Dolly Parton sleep on her back
forsleep
how can you sleep at night
how do you sleep at night
hypersleep
non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder
outsleep
oversleep
sleepable
sleep around
sleep-at-noon
sleep a wink
sleep easy
sleep-eat
sleepeat
sleeper
sleep flower
sleep-fuck
sleep funny
sleep in
sleeping bag
Sleeping Beauty
sleeping pill
sleep in heavenly peace
sleep in with
sleepiphany
sleep it off
sleep it out
sleep like a baby
sleep like a dog
sleep like a log
sleep like a mouse
sleep like a rock
sleep like a top
sleep off
sleep on
sleep one off
sleep out
sleep over
sleep rough
sleep together
sleep under the same bridge
sleepwalk
sleep well
sleep with
sleep with one eye open
sleep with one's fathers
sleep with the fishes
sleepwort
undersleep
whatever helps you sleep at night
sleep divorce
unsleep
ageless sleep
antisleep
asleep
autosleep
beauty sleep
big sleep
biphasic sleep
broken sleep
cold sleep
cry oneself to sleep
cryosleep
dead sleep
deep sleep
delayed sleep phase disorder
divided sleep
dogsleep
dog sleep
druidic sleep
electrosleep
eternal sleep
first sleep
fox sleep
fox's sleep
good night's sleep
go to sleep
halfsleep
hybrid sleep
lack of sleep
lose sleep
microsleep
midsleep
morning sleep
next sleep
nonsleep
no sleep for the wicked
one could do it in one's sleep
on sleep
orthodox sleep
paradoxical sleep
polyphasic sleep
postsleep
presleep
put to sleep
REM sleep
scare-sleep
second sleep
segmented sleep
sleepage
sleepaholic
sleep aid
sleep apnea
sleep apnoea
sleep black
sleepbound
sleep camel
sleepcation
sleep-charged
sleep debt
sleep dep
sleep deprivation
sleep-deprived
sleep diaper
sleep disorder
sleepdriving
sleep-drunk
sleepeater
sleepful
sleep hygiene
sleepies
sleep-in
sleepish
sleep-learning
sleepless
sleeplike
sleep machine
sleepmarch
sleep mask
sleep mode
sleep nappy
sleepness
sleep of the just
sleepover
sleep paralysis
sleep pressure
sleep-proof
sleep regression
sleepsack
sleep schedule
sleepshirt
sleep shorts
sleep-shorts
sleep spindle
sleep start
sleepsuit
sleep talk
sleeptalk
sleeptalker
sleep terror
sleep tight
sleeptime
sleep twitch
sleepwaker
sleepwaking
sleepwalker
sleepward
sleepwear
sleepwise
sleepwrite
sleepy
soul sleep
treacle sleep
twilight sleep
wake-sleep algorithm
yen sleep
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