sleeping

sleeping
    adj 1: lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn:
           {dormant(ip)}, {sleeping}]
    n 1: the state of being asleep [ant: {waking}]
    2: quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: {quiescence},
       {quiescency}, {dormancy}, {sleeping}]
    3: the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic
       rate
    

Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slept}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sleeping}.] [OE. slepen, AS. sl?pan; akin to OFries. sl?pa,
   OS. sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen, Goth.
   sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide,
   slide, labare to totter. Cf. {Lapse}.]
   1. 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. --Chaucer.
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            Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton.
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   2. Figuratively:
      (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to
          be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
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                We sleep over our happiness.      --Atterbury.
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      (b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
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                Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
                with him.                         --1 Thess. iv.
                                                  14.
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      (c) 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.
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                How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!
                                                  --Shak.
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Sleeping \Sleep"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Sleep}.
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   {Sleeping car}, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with
      apartments and berths for sleeping.

   {Sleeping partner} (Com.), a dormant partner. See under
      {Dormant}.

   {Sleeping table} (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on
      which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "sleeping":
      abeyant, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest,
      bereft of life, between the lines, breathless, called home,
      carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, covert, croaked, cryptic,
      dead, dead and gone, dead asleep, death-struck, deceased,
      deep asleep, defunct, delitescent, demised, departed,
      departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant,
      dull, esoteric, exanimate, fallen, fast asleep, finished,
      flaked-out, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory,
      gone west, goofing off, groggy, heavy, hibernating, hidden,
      in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, incautious, inert,
      languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent,
      launched into eternity, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, martyred,
      muffled, mystic, napping, no more, nodding, obfuscated, oblivious,
      obscured, occult, off-guard, out, passed on, passive, phlegmatic,
      possible, potential, pushing up daisies, released, reposing,
      resting easy, sainted, sedentary, slack, sluggish, slumbering,
      smitten with death, smoldering, sound asleep, stagnant, standing,
      static, still, stillborn, submerged, suspended, taken away,
      taken off, tame, torpid, unalert, unaroused, uncautious,
      unconscious, under the surface, underlying, unguarded,
      unmanifested, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful,
      veiled, virtual, with the Lord, with the saints, without life,
      without vital functions