different between sleeping vs winking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sli?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??

Verb

sleeping

1. present participle of sleep

Adjective

sleeping (not comparable)

1. Asleep.
2. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)

1. 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• peelings, speeling

French

Noun

sleeping m (plural sleepings)

1. sleeping car

Synonyms

• wagon-lit

Further reading

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

English

Verb

winking

1. present participle of wink

Noun

winking (plural winkings)

1. The act of someone who winks.
   • 1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828 (page 153)

     I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 7, p. 201,^[1]

     […] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.