'Sleeping' definitions:

Definition of 'sleeping'

From: WordNet
adjective
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip), sleeping]
noun
The state of being asleep [ant: waking]
noun
Quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping]
noun
The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate

Definition of 'Sleeping'

From: GCIDE
  • Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] [OE. slepen, AS. sl?pan; akin to OFries. sl?pa, OS. sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen, Goth. sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.]
  • 1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. [1913 Webster]
  • We sleep over our happiness. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave. [1913 Webster]
  • Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. --1 Thess. iv. 14. [1913 Webster] (c) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps. [1913 Webster]
  • How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sleeping'

From: GCIDE
  • Sleeping \Sleep"ing\, a. & n. from Sleep. [1913 Webster]
  • Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping.
  • Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant.
  • Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sleeping'

From: Moby Thesaurus