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Meaning of sleep
verb
- To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. Example: You should sleep 8 hours a day.
- (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- To accommodate in beds. Example: This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
- To be slumbering in (a state). Example: to sleep a dreamless sleep
noun
- The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. Example: I really need some sleep.
- An act or instance of sleeping. Example: I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
- (metonymically) A night. Example: There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
- 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). Example: Wipe the sleep from your eyes.
- 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.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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