Sleeping : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sleeping	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Sleeping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sleeping adj lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: dormant(ip), sleeping] n the state of being asleep Antonym(s): waking quiet and inactive restfulness Synonym(s): quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[be]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[be]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. Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton. 2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. We sleep over our happiness. --Atterbury. (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave. Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. --1 Thess. iv. 14. (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. How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sleeping \Sleep"ing\, a. & n. from {Sleep}. {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.