Sleeper

Definition: Sleeper

Sleeper

Noun

1. A rester who is sleeping.

2. A spy planted in advance for future use but not presently active.

3. An unexpected achiever of success.

4. One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper".

5. A passenger car that has berths for sleeping.

6. Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sleeper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Building

Building & Civil Engineering

Engineering & Technology

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sleeper

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Sleeper

The sleeper has awakened! (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

I'm a real light sleeper, Childs. (The Thing; writing credit: John W. Campbell Jr.; Bill Lancaster)

Sleeper (1973)

A Sound Sleeper (1909)

The Deadwood Sleeper (1905)

Sleeper, The (performing artist: The Residents)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Sleeper at the Party (reference)

• When the Sleeper Wakes (Everyman Paperback Classics) (reference)

• Dark Sleeper (reference)

• Sleeper (reference)

• Sleeper Awaken (Atlantean Secrets) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sleeper (reference)

• Light Sleeper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Day Sleeper [EP] (reference)

• Sleeper (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• 3-in-1 Bedside Sleeper - French Bear (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Interior of first Pullman sleeper. Credit: Library of Congress.

Diagramatic sketch, cross section, of the first Pullman sleeper. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brandy Station, Va. Capt. Samuel A. McClellan, Capt. J. Henry Sleeper, Capt. O'Neil W. Robinson, all of the Artillery Brigade, 3d Corps, and Alfred R. Waud, artist correspondent. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tourist sleeper. Credit: Library of Congress.

A truck with a sleeper car accomodation on U.S. Highway Route no. 11 near Wytheville, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Sir, I was once a moderate sleeper, and knew a man who slept to excess.

I have been long a sleeper, but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Manufacturers who can provide high-quality information and products for every type of sleeper have good sales potential for their products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sleeper": a great sleeper ♦ be light sleeper ♦ heavy sleeper ♦ he's a great sleeper ♦ Light sleeper ♦ railway sleeper ♦ sleeper fire ♦ sleeper goby ♦ sleeper shark. Additional references.

Beginning with "sleeper": sleeper-built, sleeper-skeletal.

Ending with "sleeper": mini-sleeper.

Albanian

vagon-shtrat (sleeping car), që fle, gjumash (sleepful, sleepyhead, slugabed, slumbery). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جواد يحرز فوزا بعد إخفاق متوال, ‏النائم (sleepy-head), ‏الراقدة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спящ човек, спален вагон (sleeping car, wagon lit), траверса (crossarm, crossbar, crosspiece, tie, traverse), животно в летаргия. (various references)

Chinese 

睡� 者 . (various references)

Czech

spáè. (various references)

Danish

svellekævler (tie), svelle (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, sill, skid, tie), sovevogn (sleeping car), overlidse (upper loop), jernbanesvelle (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), jernbane-og sporvejssvelle (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), banesvelle (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie). (various references)

Dutch

slaaprijtuig (sleeping-car), wisselhout (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), ligger (beam, binder, longitudinal bar, pile cap, simple beam, simply-supported beam), hout voor dwarsliggers (tie), dwarsligger voor spoorwegen (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), dwarsligger (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), bodemplaat (platform, platform canvas), biels (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie). (various references)

Farsi 

واگن تختخواب دار, خوابیده (Asleep, Recumbent, Resting, Torpid), خواب رونده , اهن زیرساختمان . (various references)

Finnish

ratapölkky (cross-tie). (various references)

French

dormant. (various references)

French Canadian

couchettes (sleeper car). (various references)

German

Schläfer (dozy person, sleepers), schwelle (barrier, ramp, sill, threshold, tie, treshold), schlafwagen (pullman, sleeping car, sleeping-car). (various references)

Greek 

κλινάμαξα (couchette coach, sleeping car, slumber coach), κοιμωμένοσ (asleep), στρωτήρας σιδηροδρομικών γραμμών (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), στρωτήρ (grit), βαγόνι ύπνου (pullman), άνω θηλειά (upper loop). (various references)

Hebrew 

מט�" (bed, below, beneath, bier, couch, down, downward, litter, under, underneath), קרון ש� �", א�"ן (base, footplate, foundation, pedestal, plinth, socket of a column). (various references)

Hungarian

talpfa (tie), párnafa (bolster, floor joist, pillow), alvó (asleep, dormant, sleeping, slumberer, slumberous, slumbery), rugdalózó (baby-grow, combinations, rompers), hálókocsi (sleeping car, sleeping-car, wagon lit), ászokfa (bolster, joist). (various references)

Italian

vagone letto (sleeping car), traversina (tie). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寝台車 (sleeping car). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"� いしゃ (sleeping car), まくらぎ (railroad tie). (various references)

Korean 

슬리퍼 (scuff, slipper). (various references)

Manx

trasnane (beam, cross-piece, serif, transom), jeayst (balk, balk timber, joist, sill), carriads cadlee (Pullman), cadleyder, cadlag (dormouse, gunnel, hibernator; butterfish, sluggard). (various references)

Pig Latin

eeperslay

Portuguese

viga horizontal, vagão-cama (sleeping car), travessas de madeira (tie), travessa para vias férreas (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), travessa de madeira para vias férreas (crosstie, railroad tie, railway sleeper, tie), travessa (bystreet, course, dish, Lane, platter, traverse), laçada superior (upper loop), embasamento (basement), dorminhoco (drub, lie-a-bed, sleepy, sleepyhead, slugabed), dormente (dormant, numb, railway sleeper, tie, torpid), chulipa (tie), carruagem-cama (sleeping car, sleeping-car), carro dormitório, aquele que dorme, adormecido (asleep, numb, sleeping, slumberous, torpid). (various references)

Romanian

vagon de dormit (sleeping car), traversã (beam, cross-beam, crosspiece, cross-tie, girder, rail, tie piece, traverse), persoanã care doarme, adormit (benumbed, dead, dopey, dormant, drowsy, drowsyhead, dullard, enervated, flat, mope, sleepily, sleeping, sleepy, sluggish, tame, torpid). (various references)

Russian 

соня (dormouse, lie-abed, sleepyhead, slugabed, slug-abed, slumberer), спящий человек, спальный вагон (caboose, sleeper car, sleepers, sleeping car, sleeping-car, wagon lit, wagon-lit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spavaća kola (couchette, sleeping car, wagon lit), spavač, autsajder (outsider), železnički pragovi. (various references)

Spanish

traviesa (crossbeam, crossing, tie). (various references)

Swedish

syll (crosstie), sovvagn (sleeping car, sleeping-car, wagon lit), sliper (crosstie). (various references)

Thai

รถไฟตู้นอน, คนนอนหลับ. (various references)

Turkish

sürümsüz mal, yataklı vagon (pullman, sleeping car, sleeping saloon, wagon lit), uyuyan kimse, uykucu (a great sleeper, sluggard, slumberous), uyku tulumu (flea-bag, sleeping bag), travers (ledger, transom, traverse), pijama (pajamas, pyjamas, sleeping suit), beklenmedik bir çıkış yapan kimse, çıkış yapan film. (various references)

Ukrainian

сонько (sleepy-head), спальний вагон (wagon lit), сплячий (asleep, resting, sleeping), вовчок (dormouse), піжама (night suit, pajamas, pyjamas, sleep wear). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quyển sách không ngờ th� nh công, người ngủ. (various references)

Welsh

cysgadur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sleeper": sleepers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sleeper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleeper, Colepeper, Elsener, gleeper, sheepper, sleater. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peelers.

-1 letter: lepers, peeler, repels.

-2 letters: epees, leers, leper, peels, peers, peles, perse, prees, prese, reels, repel, resee, sleep, speel, speer, spree.

-3 letters: eels, else, epee, leer, lees, peel, peer, pees, pele, pree, reel, rees, reps, seel, seep, seer, sere.

-4 letters: eel, els, ere, ers, lee, pee, per, pes, ree, rep, res, see, sel, ser.

-5 letters: el.

+1 letter: peerless, presleep, reexpels, sleepers, sleepier.

+2 letters: expellers, operceles, oversleep, pedleries, pelerines, perplexes, preelects, preselect, repealers, repellers, repeoples, repledges, replevies, respelled, sleepover, sleepwear, spleenier.

+3 letters: developers, ephemerals, espaliered, oversleeps, peddleries, peerlessly, perversely, preblessed, preblesses, prehensile, prepensely, prerelease, preselects, redevelops, reexplores, repellents, repleaders, sleepovers, superelite.

+4 letters: depressible, desperately, espieglerie, expressible, goalkeepers, letterpress, letterspace, lockkeepers, metroplexes, overpeoples, pearlescent, pelletizers, percentiles, plateresque, precolleges, prereleases, preschedule, preselected, presentable, preservable, prevalences, receptacles, replastered, replenished, replenisher, replenishes, repleteness, repressible, respectable, resplendent, sepulchered, sleepwalker, superdeluxe, superelites, superseller, telephoners, terneplates, terpeneless, terrepleins, timepleaser.

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