different between sleeping vs depression
sleeping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sli?p??/
- Rhymes: -i?p??
Verb
sleeping
- present participle of sleep
Adjective
sleeping (not comparable)
- Asleep.
- Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)
- The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
- c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, I:
- And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
- c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, I:
Translations
Anagrams
- peelings, speeling
French
Noun
sleeping m (plural sleepings)
- sleeping car
Synonyms
- wagon-lit
Further reading
- “sleeping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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depression
English
Etymology
From Old French depression, from Latin depressio.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??p????n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??p???(?)n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: de?pres?sion
Noun
depression (countable and uncountable, plural depressions)
- (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
- (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
- (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
- (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
- The act of lowering or pressing something down.
- Depression of the lever starts the machine.
- (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
Related terms
- depress
- depressant
- depressing
- depressive
Translations
See also
- downturn
Further reading
- National Bureau of Economic Research on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- depression at OneLook Dictionary Search
- depression in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- depression in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- opensiders, personised, sideperson
Danish
Noun
depression c (singular definite depressionen, plural indefinite depressioner)
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Declension
Further reading
- “depression” in Den Danske Ordbog
Finnish
Noun
depression
- Genitive singular form of depressio.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
depression c
- depression (all meanings).
Declension
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- what depression feels like quotes
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