sleep

Значение (English)

Verb

1. To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
2. To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
3. To accommodate in beds.
4. To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
5. To be dead.
6. To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
7. To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
8. To place into a state of hibernation.
9. To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
10. To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

Noun

1. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
2. (informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
3. (informal) A night.
4. 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).
5. 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.
6. The hibernation of animals.

Synonyms

slumber

lie down

be asleep

fall asleep

rest

nap

sleeping

😴

doze

go to sleep

repose

go to bed

kip

snooze

asleep

dream

😴💭

drowse

sleepiness

rheum

drowsiness

lying down

lie

relax

be sleepy

retire

lay down

catnap

sopor

sleep well

drowsy

take a nap

camp

put to sleep

quietus

doss

eternal sleep

eternal rest

log Z’s

roost

catch some Z’s

dozing

sexual intercourse

go to bed: slumber

rest in a state of sleep

beddy-bye

lie down to rest

retiring to rest

sleep lightly

secretion of the eye

sleepy-dust

lay-down, to

slug

eye gunk

eye boogers

sleepydust

lie (down)

at ease

be

break

crash

dreaming

feeling

flop

forty winks

get off

hibernate

hibernation

lay

live

make

night

🌃

numbness

pause

perch

recline

relaxation

remain

sense

sensory

sleepers

sleeps

sleep with

stay

stay in bed

turn in

wakefulness

close eyes

stay overnight

take a rest

be dead

eye mucus

eye discharge

close the eyes

oneirism

somnus

Произносится как (IPA)

/sliːp/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: slepen

Inherited from староанглийский: slēpan

Inherited from среднеанглийский: slepe

Inherited from староанглийский: slǣp

In summary

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan, a variant of slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.