Definition of Sleep

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Definition of Sleep

Sleep

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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.

To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

To be dead; to lie in the grave.

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.

To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

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.

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Sleep Quotations

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
Steven Wright

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. Fields

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

Sleep Translations

sleep in Dutch is slapen, maffen
sleep in French is pioncer, dormez, dormir, sommeil, dormons, dorment
sleep in German is Schlaf, Schlaf, schlafen
sleep in Italian is dormire, sonno, dormicchiare
sleep in Latin is quiesco, somnus
sleep in Portuguese is dormir, sono

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