Meaning of sleep | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from English.
2. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
   uncountable
3. An act or instance of sleeping.
   countable, informal
4. To have sexual relations with a number of different partners in casual encounters.
5. A night.
   countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable
6. To think about (something) overnight before deciding.
7. 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).
   uncountable
8. To spend the night as a guest in another's home.
9. 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.
   countable, uncountable
10. To have sexual relations.
11. The hibernation of animals.
    countable, uncountable
12. To have sexual relations with.
13. To sleep very deeply.
14. A natural state of rest, occurring at regular intervals, in which the eyes usually close, the muscles relax, and responsiveness to external events decreases. Growth and repair of the tissues of the body are thought to occur during sleep, and energy is conserved and stored. In humans and some other animals, scientists have identified one phase of sleep (called REM sleep) as the phase in which dreams occur.
15. the practice of hypnotism by Dr. James Braid, British physician, in the mid 19th century.
16. an obsession with bed rest.
17. an abnormal fear or dislike of going to bed.

Equivalents

Examples

“I really need some sleep.”

“We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.”

“I’m just going to have a quick sleep.”

“a sound night’s sleep”

“There are only three sleeps till Christmas!”

“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.”

“The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]”

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