Sleep

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

   “You should sleep eight hours a day.”

2. fiil To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

   “Last night we slept together for the first time.”

3. fiil To accommodate in beds.

   “This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.”

4. fiil To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

   “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.”

5. fiil To be dead.

   “For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.”

6. fiil To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.

   “a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps”

7. fiil To wait for a period of time without performing any action.

   “After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.”

8. fiil To place into a state of hibernation.

   “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.”

9. fiil To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

   “When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.”

10. fiil To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

    “Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.”

11. isim The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

    “I really need some sleep.”

12. isim An act or instance of sleeping.

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

13. isim A night.

    “There are only three sleeps till Christmas!”

14. isim 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).

    “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.”

15. isim 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.

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

16. isim The hibernation of animals.
17. özel isim A surname from English.