sleep
noun · verb · adjectiveA1- Tiếng Việt:
- ngủ
ngủ. Họ từ SLEEP — danh từ: sleep; động từ: sleep; tính từ: sleepy.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
You should sleep eight hours a day.
We sleep in the bedroom.
- 2.
(euphemistic, idiomatic)To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
Last night we slept together for the first time.
- 3.
(transitive)To accommodate in beds.
This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
- 4.
(idiomatic, intransitive)To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- 5.
(euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive)To be dead.
- 6.
(intransitive)To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
- 7.
(intransitive)(computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
- 8.
(transitive)(computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- 9.
(intransitive)(intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
- 10.
(transitive)(transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
I really need some sleep.
We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
- 2.
(countable, informal)An act or instance of sleeping.
I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
a sound night’s sleep
- 3.
(countable, informal, metonymically, uncountable)(informal, metonymic) A night.
There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
- 4.
(uncountable)Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
Đồng nghĩa: nyctinasty, nyctitropism
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)The hibernation of animals.
Cụm từ thường dùng
sleep through
giới từ đi kèm
go to sleep
cụm thông dụng
deep sleep
cụm thông dụng
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From Middle English slepen, from slēpan (slǣpan), from *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (to sleep). 2 cog Cognate with sleepe, sliap, sliip, släipe (to sleep), släipe, sliepe, schlaaffe, schlaafä, schlafe, schloafe, schloafen, schlofe, schlàfu (to sleep), schlofn, schlåfn, sghlofn (to sleep), schlofe, slaafan, slafan, slavan (to sleep), slapen, schlafen, schloëpe, slaope (to sleep), schlofen,…