different between laid vs sleep

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

laid

1. simple past tense and past participle of lay

Derived terms

• get laid
• laid rope

Adjective

laid (not comparable)

1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

Derived terms

• creamlaid
• well-laid

Translations

Anagrams

• Dail, Dali, Dalí, Dial, dali, dial, dial.

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *laid?. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.

Noun

laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)

1. width (of cloth)
2. Plank on the side of a boat.
3. Side of a boat.
4. board, starboard

Declension

Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laid?.

Noun

laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)

1. islet, holm

Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English l?þ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at loath.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?/
• Homophones: lai, laie, lait

Adjective

laid (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. physically ugly

   Synonyms: moche, vilain

2. morally corrupt

Derived terms

• jolie laide
• laid comme les sept péchés capitaux
• laid comme un pou

Further reading

• “laid” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lait (feminine laide).

Adjective

laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. ugly
   • 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43

     Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.

     The king of Castille was ugly, and his clothing unpleasant to the French, who made fun of it.

Descendants

• French: laid

Norman

Etymology

From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

laid m

1. (Jersey) ugly

Derived terms

• laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”, literally “ugly as a Sunday sin”)
• laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
• s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
• laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)

Welsh

Noun

laid

1. Soft mutation of llaid.

Mutation

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)

1. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     We sleep in the bedroom.

2. (intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
3. (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.

4. (transitive) To accommodate in beds.

5. (transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).

6. (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.

7. (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
8. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
9. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.

10. (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.

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Troponyms

• (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze

Derived terms

Translations

See also

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)

1. (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

2. (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.

3. (informal, metonymically) A night.

4. (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.

5. 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 […]

6. 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)

1. (the act of) dragging, towing
2. train, the part of wedding gown that drags behind the bride

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sleep

1. singular past indicative of slijpen

Verb

sleep

1. first-person singular present indicative of slepen
2. imperative of slepen

Anagrams

• slepe, speel, spele

Middle English

Noun

sleep (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of slepe