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Definition: Sleeping Pill |
Sleeping PillNoun1. A soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Sleeping PillSynonyms: sleeping capsule (n), sleeping draught (n), sleeping tablet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic; torpedo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sleeping Pill |
| English words defined with "sleeping pill": estazolam ♦ Halcion ♦ ProSom ♦ triazolam. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | 2000 page sleeping pill. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Clever | Hospital is a place where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill. (references; author: unknown) Life lesson: Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The old joke about a patient being awakened by a nurse so he could take a sleeping pill contains a grain of truth. (references) | |
A patient taking any sleeping pill should be under the supervision of a physician to closely evaluate effectiveness and minimize side effects. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "sleeping pill": the sleeping pill. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sleeping pill | 383 |
over the counter sleeping pill | 19 |
sonata sleeping pill | 12 |
otc sleeping pill | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sleeping pill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحبة المنومة (the sleeping pill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | unilääke (hypnotic, soporific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soporifique (sleep-inducing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlafmittel (barbiturate, sleeping drug, sleeping pills, soporific, soporifics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπνωτικό (soporiferous, soporific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | altató (drowsy, narcotic, sedative, sleeping-draught, sleeping-pill, slumberous, slumbery, soporific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sonnifero (sleeping draught, somniferous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 睡 薬 (sleep medication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいみ"やく (sleep medication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | milleen cadlee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepingslay illpay pílula sonífera. (various references) снотворное (hypnotic, sleeping draught, soporific, soporifics). (various references) somnífero (narcotic, sleepingdraught, somnifacient, somniferous, soniferous), comprimido para dormir (sleeping tablet). (various references) sömntablett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-l-l-l-n-p-p-s" | |
-3 letters: pipelines. | |
-4 letters: lippings, peelings, pipeline, sleeping, slipping, speeling, speiling, spelling, spieling, spilling, spinelle. | |
-5 letters: ellipse, gillies, lippens, lipping, lisping, nellies, nipples, peeling, peeping, peising, pensile, pepsine, pigpens, pilings, pilling, pipings, seeling, seeping, selling, sipping, sliping, spiegel, spiling, splenii. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6C 65 65 70 69 6E 67 50 69 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010000 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e e p i n g   P i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 0069 006E 0067 0050 0069 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5378717182758073250757878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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