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sleep 音標拼音: [sl'ip] n. 睡眠,靜止,睡意,昏迷,麻木,長眠,冬眠,靜寂
vi. 睡覺,睡眠,靜止 睡眠,靜止,睡意,昏迷,麻木,長眠,冬眠,靜寂睡覺,睡眠,靜止 sleep n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; " he didn' t get enough sleep last night"; " calm as a child in dreamless slumber" [ synonym: { sleep}, { slumber}] 2: a torpid state resembling deep sleep [ synonym: { sleep}, { sopor}] 3: a period of time spent sleeping; " he felt better after a little sleep"; " there wasn' t time for a nap" [ synonym: { sleep}, { nap}] 4: euphemisms for death ( based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); " she was laid to rest beside her husband"; " they had to put their family pet to sleep" [ synonym: { rest}, { eternal rest}, { sleep}, { eternal sleep}, { quietus}] v 1: be asleep [ synonym: { sleep}, { kip}, { slumber}, { log Z' s}, { catch some Z' s}] [ ant: { wake}] 2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; " This tent sleeps six people" Sleep \ Sleep\, n. [ AS. sl[= ae] p; akin to OFries. sl[= e] p, OS. sl[= a] p, D. slaap, OHG. sl[= a] f, G. schlaf, Goth. sl[= e] ps. See { Sleep}, v. i.] A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. " A man that waketh of his sleep." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] O sleep, thou ape of death. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose. The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its control of the powers. [ 1913 Webster] { Sleep of plants} ( Bot.), 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. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse. [ 1913 Webster]
Sleep \ Sleep\, v. t. 1. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [ R.] -- Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster] { To sleep away}, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time. { To sleep off}, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue. [ 1913 Webster]
Sleep \ Sleep\, obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
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] 178 Moby Thesaurus words for " sleep": KO, annihilation, ataraxia, ataraxy, bane, be caught napping, be neglectful, be negligent, beauty sleep, beddy- bye, bedtime, biological death, blackout, blanket drill, bye- bye, calmness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, catnap, cessation of life, clinical death, coma, comfort, composure, contemplation, crossing the bar, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, default, demise, departure, disregard, dissolution, doom, doss, doze, dreamland, drop off, drowse, dying, ease, ebb of life, end, end of life, ending, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fail, faint, final summons, finger of death, fitful sleep, forty winks, fust, gloss over, going, going off, grave, grayout, hand of death, hang fire, hibernation, idle, ignore, imperturbability, inactivity, jaws of death, kayo, knell, knockout, land of Nod, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, let go, let ride, let slide, let slip, light sleep, lipothymia, lipothymy, lose sight of, lose track of, loss of life, lucid stillness, making an end, marmoreal repose, nap, neglect, nirvana, nirvana principle, nod, nod off, not care for, not get involved, not heed, not think, nothingness, oblivion, obliviousness, overlook, oversleep, parting, pass over, passing, passing away, passing over, peace, peacefulness, perishing, placidity, placidness, pound, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, quietus, relax, relaxation, release, repose, rest, restfulness, reward, satori, saw logs, saw wood, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sentence of death, serenity, shades of death, shadow of death, shut- eye, siesta, silence, silken repose, sleep soundly, sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, smolder, snooze, snoozle, snore, somatic death, somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, stagnate, stillness, stupor, summons of death, swoon, syncope, take a nap, take for granted, tranquillity, unbuttoned ease, unconsciousness, vegetate, winter sleep, wise passiveness |
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