Sleeper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone who sleeps.

   “I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.”

2. isim That which lies dormant, as a law.

   “Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judged confined in the execution […]”

3. isim A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

   “We are up against the pros; and pros who have been involved in this kind of activity for many years. […] The public apathy today is disturbing — few realize, Mr. Chairman, that there are sleepers in this country and we know that they are able to manipulate at will behind the scenes.”

4. isim A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
5. isim A railway sleeping car.

   “We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.”

6. isim A sleeper hold.
7. isim Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.

   “A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.”

8. isim Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
9. isim A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
10. isim A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.

    “Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.”

11. isim An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
12. isim A sedative.

    “At least a couple of weeks since I last slept, / Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.”

13. isim A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
14. isim A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
15. fiil To mark a calf by cutting its ear.

    “I expect there ain't a trick to maverickin' and sleeperin' and changin' a brand he don't know.”

16. isim A railroad tie.

    “The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.”

17. isim A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
18. isim A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
19. isim The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
20. özel isim A surname.