'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
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
- abeyant,
- apathetic,
- asleep,
- asleep in Jesus,
- at rest,
- bereft of life,
- between the lines,
- breathless,
- called home,
- carrion,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- comatose,
- covert,
- croaked,
- cryptic,
- dead,
- dead and gone,
- dead asleep,
- death-struck,
- deceased,
- deep asleep,
- defunct,
- delitescent,
- demised,
- departed,
- departed this life,
- destitute of life,
- done for,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- dull,
- esoteric,
- exanimate,
- fallen,
- fast asleep,
- finished,
- flaked-out,
- flat,
- food for worms,
- foul,
- gone,
- gone to glory,
- gone west,
- goofing off,
- groggy,
- heavy,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- incautious,
- inert,
- languid,
- languorous,
- late,
- late lamented,
- latent,
- launched into eternity,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- logy,
- lurking,
- martyred,
- muffled,
- mystic,
- napping,
- no more,
- nodding,
- obfuscated,
- oblivious,
- obscured,
- occult,
- off-guard,
- out,
- passed on,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- possible,
- potential,
- pushing up daisies,
- released,
- reposing,
- resting easy,
- sainted,
- sedentary,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- slumbering,
- smitten with death,
- smoldering,
- sound asleep,
- stagnant,
- standing,
- static,
- still,
- stillborn,
- submerged,
- suspended,
- taken away,
- taken off,
- tame,
- torpid,
- unalert,
- unaroused,
- uncautious,
- unconscious,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- unguarded,
- unmanifested,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unvigilant,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- veiled,
- virtual,
- with the Lord,
- with the saints,
- without life,
- without vital functions
Words containing 'Sleeping'
- Sleep,
- Sleepful,
- Sleepfulness,
- To sleep off,
- sleep in,
- sleep off,
- sleep on,
- sleep out,
- sleep over,
- sleep with,
- Fox sleep,
- Sleep of plants,
- Sleeping car,
- Sleeping partner,
- Sleeping table,
- Ten Sleep,
- To sleep away,
- Winter sleep,
- beauty sleep,
- cat sleep,
- cause to sleep,
- eternal sleep,
- go to sleep,
- nrem sleep,
- orthodox sleep,
- paradoxical sleep,
- put to sleep,
- rem sleep,
- short sleep,
- sleep apnea,
- sleep around,
- sleep deprivation,
- sleep disorder,
- sleep late,
- sleep talking,
- sleep together,
- sleeping accommodation,
- sleeping around,
- sleeping bag,
- sleeping beauty,
- sleeping capsule,
- sleeping draught,
- sleeping hibiscus,
- sleeping lizard,
- sleeping pill,
- sleeping room,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleeping tablet,
- twilight sleep,
- Sleep-at-noon,
- Sleep-charged,
- Ten Sleep, WY,
- sleep terror disorder,
- sleep-learning,
- nonrapid eye movement sleep,
- rapid eye movement sleep