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sleep - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sleep' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sleep
- imp. of Sleep. Slept.
2 . Sleep [ v. i.]
- 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.
- To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- To be dead; to lie in the grave.
- 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.
- 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.
3 . Sleep [ v. t.]
- To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
- To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

Meaning of 'sleep' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sleep [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
Example in sentence:
  • calm as a child in dreamless slumber;
  • he didn't get enough sleep last night
Meaning (2):
- a period of time spent sleeping
Example in sentence:
  • he felt better after a little sleep;
  • there wasn't time for a nap
Meaning (3):
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
Example in sentence:
  • she was laid to rest beside her husband;
  • they had to put their family pet to sleep
4 . sleep [ v]
Meaning (4):
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
Example in sentence:
  • This tent sleeps six people