different between sleep vs oversleep

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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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

over- +? sleep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v???sli?p/

Verb

oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)

1. (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended. [from 14th c.]

   I overslept and was late for school.

2. (reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended. [from 15th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:

     [A]fter such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, IV:

     Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].

3. (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.). [from 16th c.]

   to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Related terms

• sleep in
• sleep it out

Antonyms

• undersleep

Translations

Anagrams

• overpeels, sleep over, sleepover