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bedtime
English
Etymology
From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed +? time.
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?d?t?m, IPA(key): /?b?dta?m/
Noun
bedtime (countable and uncountable, plural bedtimes)
- The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
Derived terms
- bedtime story
Translations
Anagrams
- betimed
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sleep
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sl?p, IPA(key): /sli?p/
- (General American) IPA(key): /slip/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English slepen, from Old English sl?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *sl?pan, from Proto-Germanic *sl?pan?.
Verb
sleep (third-person singular simple present sleeps, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slept)
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- We sleep in the bedroom.
- We sleep in the bedroom.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
- 1995, All Aboard for Space: Introducing Space to Youngsters (page 158)
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).
- (intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- We sleep over our happiness.
- September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- 2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard (page 91)
- 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.
- 2009, Mike Lee, Scott Meyers, Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard (page 91)
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Troponyms
- (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English slepe, sleep, sleepe, from Old English sl?p (“sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *sl?p, from Proto-Germanic *sl?paz (“sleep”).
Noun
sleep (countable and uncountable, plural sleeps)
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymically) A night.
- (uncountable) 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).
- Synonyms: (informal) sleepy, (informal) sleeper, (informal) sleepy dust, (slang) crusty, (UK dialectal) gound
- 2017, Adam J. Fisch, Neuroanatomy: Draw It to Know It, Oxford University Press (?ISBN):
- [...] 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.”
- 2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning (?ISBN), page 780, entry "Medial canthus":
- 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism
- 1843, Joh Müller, John Bell, Elements of Physiology, page 808:
- The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena […]
- The hibernation of animals.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:sleep
- (mucus in the eyes): sleepies, bed booger(s), eye bogey(s), eye bogie(s), eye booger(s), eye crust, eye goop(s), eye gunk(s), eye sand, eye-snot, eye snot, sleepy booger(s)
Derived terms
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “sleep”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- LEEPs, Leeps, Lepes, peels, speel
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sle?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sleep m (plural slepen, diminutive sleepje n)
- (the act of) dragging, towing
- train, the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
sleep
- singular past indicative of slijpen
Verb
sleep
- first-person singular present indicative of slepen
- imperative of slepen
Anagrams
- slepe, speel, spele
Middle English
Noun
sleep (uncountable)
- Alternative form of slepe
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