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
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs
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
Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
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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