sleeping

sleeping
  • danh từ
    • sự ngừng lại giữa chừng
      • the sleeping of the business: tình trạng công việc ngừng lại giữa chừng

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): sleep, sleeper, sleepiness, sleeplessness, sleep, asleep, sleepless, sleepy, sleeping, sleepily

Xem thêm: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, dormant(ip), slumber, sopor, nap, rest, eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's



sleeping

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • the state of being asleep
  • quiet and inactive restfulness; quiescence, quiescency, dormancy
  • the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate

    adj.

  • lying with head on paws as if sleeping; dormant(ip)

    n.

  • a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; slumber

    he didn't get enough sleep last night

    calm as a child in dreamless slumber

  • a torpid state resembling deep sleep; sopor
  • a period of time spent sleeping; nap

    he felt better after a little sleep

    there wasn't time for a nap

  • euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); rest, eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus

    she was laid to rest beside her husband

    they had to put their family pet to sleep

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: dormancy dormant(ip) quiescence quiescencysleeps|slept|sleeping
syn.: doze drowse nap rest slumber snooze
ant.: wake