sleeping
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sleeping
- present participle and gerund of sleep
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
Adjective
[edit]sleeping (not comparable)
- Asleep.
- 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
- Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
- Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
Translations
[edit]asleep — see asleep
used for sleep; used to produce sleep
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Noun
[edit]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, section I:
- And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
- 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144:
- […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
Translations
[edit]state or act of being asleep
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Derived terms
[edit]- African sleeping sickness
- born sleeping
- co-sleeping
- let sleeping dogs lie
- let the sleeping dogs lie
- sleeping at the switch
- sleeping bag
- sleeping barber problem
- Sleeping Beauty
- sleeping beauty
- sleeping car
- sleeping dictionary
- sleeping dragon
- sleeping draught
- sleeping giant
- sleeping hours
- sleeping language
- sleeping lions
- sleeping mat
- sleeping pad
- sleeping partner
- sleeping pill
- sleeping policeman
- sleeping power
- sleeping quarters
- sleeping room
- sleeping sickness
- sleeping table
- sleeping tablet
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]sleeping m (plural sleepings)
- sleeping car
- Synonym: wagon-lit
Further reading
[edit]- “sleeping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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