sleeping
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
Top
Sleep·ing
a. & n. from Sleep.
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.
Roget's Thesaurus:
Top
sleeping
adjective
- In a state of sleep: asleep, unawake. Idioms: dead to the world, fastsoundasleep, in asoundwakelesssleep, out like a light. See awareness/unawareness.
- Existing in a temporarily inactive form or state: abeyant, dormant, inactive, latent, quiescent. See action/inaction, show/hide.
Word Tutor:
Top
sleeping
IN BRIEF: n. - The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate; Quiet and inactive restfulness; The state of being asleep.
Sleeping out is grand
— Unknown.
LearnThatWord.com is a free vocabulary and spelling program where you only pay for results!
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Roget's Thesaurus
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 byHoughton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Read more
