sleep
s leep
- n a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
he didn't get enough sleep last night - n a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- n a period of time spent sleeping
he felt better after a little sleep - n euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
they had to put their family pet to sleep - v be asleep
- v be able to accommodate for sleeping
This tent sleeps six people
- In the first study to associate meal timing with degree of weight gain, sleep scientists at Northwestern University compared two groups of mice, each placed on opposite feeding .
- Long before Novelist AldousHuxley conceived of a Brave New World where schoolkids could learn their lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote.
- I usually sleep no more than five or six hours a night.