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Definition: Sleep Over |
Sleep OverVerb1. Stay overnight; "The boy's friends were allowed to sleep over". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Verb: be inactive; Adjective: do nothing; move slowly; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sleep Over |
| Specialty definitions using "sleep over": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I wouldn't want you losing any more sleep over me. (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Friends don't let friends drive drunk. : drive your friend home have your firend sleep over call a cab. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | About 20 million Americans (20 to 25 percent of workers) perform shift work. Most shift workers get less sleep over 24 hours than day workers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ira sleep over | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sleep over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | etwas überschlafen (to sleep on something, to sleep over something). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elbóbiskol munka közben (to go to sleep over one's work), elalszik munka közben (to go to sleep over one's work). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepslay overay pernoitar (kip, spend the night, stay overnight). (various references) amâna pentru a douã zi (sleep on, sleep upon). (various references) aplazar (adjourn, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, put back, put off, put over, reserve, respite, table, wait). (various references) відкласти до наступного ранку вирішення. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oversleep, sleepover. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-l-o-p-r-s-v" | |
-2 letters: elopers, leprose, oversee, peelers, plovers, releves, resolve, sleeper. | |
-3 letters: eloper, elopes, elvers, lepers, levees, levers, lopers, lovers, peeler, peeves, pelves, plover, polers, proles, proves, reeves, releve, repels, repose, resole, revels, severe, sleeve, sloper, soever, solver, splore, vesper. | |
-4 letters: elope, elver, elves, epees, erose, leers, leper, levee, lever, loper, lopes, lores, loser, lover, loves. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-l-o-p-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: developers, oversleeps, redevelops, sleepovers. | |
+2 letters: overpeoples. | |
+3 letters: codevelopers, overdevelops, oversleeping, redevelopers. | |
+4 letters: overspeculate, pretelevision. | |
+5 letters: overspecialize, overspeculated, overspeculates, provablenesses, redevelopments, superelevation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 65 70 4F 76 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e e p   O v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 004F 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378717182249887184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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