sleep

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsliːp/, [ˈslɪi̯p] Rhymes: -iːp Hyphenation: sleep === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Alternative forms ==== sleepe (obsolete) ==== Verb ==== sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept) (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) We sleep in the bedroom. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with). (transitive) To accommodate in beds. (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action. (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation. (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Troponyms ===== (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Sranan Tongo: sribi ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English slǣp (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *slāp, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaz (“sleep”). ==== Alternative forms ==== sleepe (obsolete) ==== Noun ==== sleep (countable and uncountable, plural sleeps) (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping. (informal, metonymic) A night. (uncountable) 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). Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sleep 2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning (→ISBN), page 780, entry "Medial canthus": 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. (botany) 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. Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism The hibernation of animals. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “sleep”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. === Anagrams === LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, speel == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sleːp/ Rhymes: -eːp === Etymology 1 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Noun ==== sleep m (plural slepen, diminutive sleepje n) (the act of) dragging, towing train, the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride ===== Descendants ===== → Papiamentu: sleep (dated) === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== sleep singular past indicative of slijpen ==== Verb ==== sleep inflection of slepen: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative === Anagrams === slepe, speel, spele == Middle English == === Noun === sleep (uncountable) alternative form of slepe