different between sleep vs cabin

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.

11. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (transitive) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Troponyms

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

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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)

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)

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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæb?n/
• Rhymes: -æb?n

Noun

cabin (plural cabins)

1. (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
   • 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill

     And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.

2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
3. A private room on a ship.
4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
5. The passenger area of an airplane.
6. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
7. (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
8. A small room; an enclosed place.
9. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

Synonyms

• cell
• chamber
• hut
• pod
• shack
• shed

Antonyms

• hall
• palace
• villa

Derived terms

• cabin boy
• cabin cruiser
• log cabin
• signal cabin

Descendants

• ? French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
• ? Japanese: ???? (kyabin)
• ? Korean: ?? (kaebin)

Translations

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)

1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
2. (by extension) To limit the scope of.
   • 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:

     There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

See also

• cabana

Further reading

• cabin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cabin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cabin at OneLook Dictionary Search