Akademik

sleeping

I

noun

1. the state of being asleep (Freq. 1)

• Ant: ↑waking

• Derivationally related forms: ↑sleep

• Hypernyms: ↑sleep, ↑slumber

• Part Meronyms: ↑dream, ↑dreaming

2. quiet and inactive restfulness

• Syn: ↑quiescence, ↑quiescency, ↑dormancy

• Derivationally related forms: ↑dormant (for: ↑dormancy), ↑quiescent (for: ↑quiescency), ↑quiescent (for: ↑quiescence)

• Hypernyms: ↑rest, ↑ease, ↑repose, ↑relaxation

• Hyponyms: ↑vegetation

3. the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate

• Hypernyms: ↑bodily process, ↑body process, ↑bodily function, ↑activity

• Hyponyms:

↑sleepwalking, ↑somnambulism, ↑somnambulation, ↑noctambulism, ↑noctambulation, ↑sleep talking, ↑somniloquy, ↑somniloquism, ↑nap, ↑catnap, ↑cat sleep, ↑forty winks, ↑short sleep, ↑snooze, ↑doze, ↑drowse

II

adjective

lying with head on paws as if sleeping

• Syn: ↑dormant

• Similar to: ↑unerect

• Topics: ↑heraldry

Useful english dictionary. 2012.