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SLEEPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sleeping" is a kind of...):
activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sleeping"):
noctambulation; noctambulism; sleepwalking; somnambulation; somnambulism (walking by a person who is asleep)
sleep talking; somniloquism; somniloquy (uttering speech while asleep)
catnap; forty winks; light sleep; nap; short sleep; snooze (sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed))
doze; drowse (a light fitful sleep)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Quiet and inactive restfulness
Synonyms:
dormancy; quiescence; quiescency; sleeping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sleeping" is a kind of...):
ease; relaxation; repose; rest (freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sleeping"):
vegetation (inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of being asleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sleeping" is a kind of...):
sleep; slumber (a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended)
Meronyms (parts of "sleeping"):
dream; dreaming (a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep)
Antonym:
waking (the state of remaining awake)
Derivation:
sleep (be asleep)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lying with head on paws as if sleeping
Synonyms:
dormant; sleeping
Classified under:
Similar:
unerect (not upright in position or posture)
Domain category:
heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sleep
Context examples:
The German lay upon the sofa sleeping stertorously with a strap round his upper arms and another round his legs.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But were they sleeping? all of them? Or had they been sleeping?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It may also be used to help relieve anxiety and insomnia (trouble sleeping) and to treat certain other disorders.
(Oleptro, NCI Dictionary)
Sleeping or waking, my head has been full of this matter all night.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It is to be hoped he will not take cold with sleeping on the library sofa, &c.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This self-administered instrument contains 15 items pertaining to topics such as stomach pain, headaches, dizziness, and trouble sleeping.
(Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 Item, NCI Thesaurus)
This sound disturbed an old woman who was sleeping in a chair beside me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much.
(PHQ-9 - Trouble Falling or Staying Asleep, or Sleeping Too Much, NCI Thesaurus)
Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 (PHQ-15) Trouble sleeping.
(PHQ-15 - Trouble Sleeping, NCI Thesaurus)
Often sleeping; play entirely limited to very passive activities.
(Lansky Performance Status 20, NCI Thesaurus)
