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Definition: Sleeping |
SleepingAdjective1. Lying asleep; "don't wake the sleeping children"; "gazed with affection at his slumbering form". 2. (heraldry) lying with head on paws as if sleeping. Noun1. The state of being asleep. 2. Quiet and inactive restfulness. 3. The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleeping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sleep is the process in which humans and other animals periodically rest, with decreased responsiveness to the surrounding world. Sleep occurs cyclically, roughly every 24 hours even though the average human inner body clock usually runs a 24.5-25.5 hour cycle. This cycle gets reset daily (to match 24 hours) with various stimuli such as sunlight. One of the correlates of this cycle is the level of melatonin, which is high at times when we tend to sleep. Some people sleep twice every 24 hours (afternoon nap, siesta).
Animals vary widely in their amounts of sleep, from 2 hours a day for giraffes to 20 hours for bats. Seals and dolphins "sleep" with alternate hemispheres of their brains asleep and the other awake. Seals need to do this so they can breathe above water while sleeping. Many animals hibernate in a deep sleep during winter to save warmth and energy. A similar kind of sleep is estivation, which is hibernating to escape the heat of summer.
Though there is still much debate about the evolutionary origins and purposes of sleep, it is widely theorised that one major function that occurs during sleep is consolidation and optimization of memories. Another function of sleep is the conservation of energy during inactivity. Other theorised functions include:
Sleep proceeds in cycles of NREM and REM phases. Each phase has a distinct physiological function. Dreaming, for example, appears to occur during REM sleep.
- promotion of physiological processes which rejuvenate the body and the mind: some studies suggest sleep restores neurons and increases production of brain proteins and certain hormones;
- unlearning during sleep prevents the brain from becoming overloaded with knowledge; and
- avoidance of danger: prehistoric mankind adapted the pattern of sleeping in caves at night, because it protected humans from species physiologically suited to function well in the dark, such as saber-toothed tigers.
Some medications (for example, sleeping pills) can suppress selective stages of sleep. This can result in obtaining sleep (loss of consciousness) without fulfilling its physiological function (memory remolding).
A majority of sleep disorders which originate within the body (for example, insomnia, DSPS, ASPS) result from errors in synchronization of sleep with the body clock. Only a fraction of sleep problems are organic and cannot be resolved with chronotherapy. One of the simplest solutions towards getting good sleep is free-running sleep. In simple terms, free-running sleep requires throwing away your alarm clock. Free-running sleep can resolve the majority of synchronization-dependent sleep disorders, but usually cannot be employed due to the resulting loss of synchronization of sleep with the outside world (including day-night cycle).
Sleep disorder is often observed in patients with a number of psychiatric problems (e.g. bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, etc.).
Sleep can also refer to the state of hypnosis.
See also:
- Dreaming
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Sleep disorders
- Bruxism
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep apnea
- Sleepwalking
- Snoring
- lodging, bed, sleeping bag, sleeping pad
- yawn
- myclonic twitch
Additional Resources
- Animal Sleep
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sleep."
Synonyms: SleepingSynonyms: dormant(ip) (adj), sleeping(a) (adj), slumbering(a) (adj), dormancy (n), quiescence (n), quiescency (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: waking (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel one's way; see how the land lies; (foresight); wait to see how the cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter; (prepare); let well alone, let well enough alone; let sleeping dogs lie, ne pas reveiller le chat qui dort. |
Inactivity | Sleeping; Verb: asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus. |
Lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic, sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic; torpedo. | |
Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. | |
Quiescence | Adjective: quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary; immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still; standing still; Verb: sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable; (stable); sleeping; (inactive); silent; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. |
Sexuality | Sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge. |
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. |
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Screenplays | Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) I wouldn't want to go on living if I thought it was all just eating, and sleeping, and taking my clothes off, I mean putting them on (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;) One of the virtues of never sleeping. (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) But the Gimp's sleeping. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) | |
Lyrics | Quit the blaming, Cut the naming, Cut the sleeping, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) Watch you smile while you are sleeping (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH) I'm sleeping with the ghost of you and me (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) The world is sleeping and (Brick; performing artist: Ben Folds Five) I been sleeping on a floor (Extra Ordinary; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) | |
Clever | Work: It isn't just for sleeping anymore. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: The coffee machine is broken. (references; author: unknown) On a Sera's hairdryer: "Do not use while sleeping. (references; author: unknown) If you want breakfast in bed, then start sleeping in the kitchen. (references; author: unknown) Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Guess Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1973) Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) The Sleeping Beauty (1963) Sleeping Beauty (1959) The Sleeping Beauty (1955) | |
Song Titles | Sleeping Bag (performing artist: ZZ Top) | |
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 | Elephant seals sleeping. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Plate 27. The Fur-seal. Callorhinus ursinus. a. Old "Seecatch" or male, 8 to 24 years old; b. Young "See-catch" 6 to 8 years old; c. "Holluschickie", or young males, 2 years old; d. "Matkah" or mother nursing her pup; e. "Cow" fanning herself; f. "Cow" sleeping; g. "Cow" napping and fanning herself; h. "Cow crooning to the male.; j. characteristic position of old males. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Plate 31. Pelagic attitudes of the fur-seal. 1. Position while sleeping. 2. Position when rising to breathe, survey, &c. 3. Position when scratching. 4. "Dolphin jumps.". Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Night dive discovers manini sleeping. Surgeonfish -Acanthuris sandvicensis (manini or convict tang). Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Sleeping quarters at the prison at Isla Gorgona. Credit: Small World. |  | Let sleeping dogs lie unless the car starts to back up. Apparently there was no leash law at Puntarenas as dogs seemed to roam about the town at will. Credit: Small World. |
 | Up river from Sleeping Indian. Hills and Juniper surrounding the John Day River. Credit: John Craig. |  | Sleeping Giant area. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Credit: NPS. |  | U. S. Army Camp Hospital No. 24, Langres, France. : Sleeping quarters of the nurses. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Sleeping child" by *** Linda *** Commentary: "Sleeping child." | "Sleeping in the scannerbed" by Robert Beliczki Commentary: "This is the first member of an exhibition called "Experiment with scanner" ." |
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 | Digital; snoring; whistling; whistle; snore; wheeze; wheezing; saw logs; sawing logs; respiring; respire; sleeping; sleep; dozing; doze. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | The sleeping fox catches no poultry. |
| Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. | |
Isoroku Yamamoto | I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I took him as he was sleeping on the sofa, and it is as strong a likeness of his cockade as you would wish to see. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | You are beside him, sleeping and waking |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the further end of the room he could hear the equal and quiet breathing of the sleeping bishop |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Soon all would be dark and sleeping. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma folded her hands in her lap, and her tired eyes never left the face of Rose of Sharon, sleeping in exhaustion |
Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When sleeping, use bednets. (references) | |
Have problems eating and sleeping. (references) | ||
Avoid sleeping in thatch, mud, or adobe houses. (references) | ||
Business | Medications for sleeping disorders, psychological disorders and for certain diseases (e.g., tuberculosis and epilepsy) cannot be advertised publicly. (references) | |
A recent study by the Nuernberg-based market research company GfK on sleeping habits and consumer behavior concerning the purchase of bed linen and bedding show that for many product segments the market is not saturated. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Guinea-Bissau | The majority of the refugees live in the market place (Mercado de Bandim), sleeping in stalls and on rollaway mats. (references) |
Afghanistan | On November 26, in an apparent attempted robbery, armed gunmen broke into a home in Taloqan in northeast Afghanistan in which Swedish journalists were sleeping. (references) | |
Greece | The detainees were held in squalid conditions: A report by Human Rights Watch in December 2000 cited severe overcrowding and a lack of sufficient exercise, sleeping accommodations, adequate food, or medical care. (references) | |
Economic History | Bahrain | The Memorandum of Association need not include the names of sleeping partners but must contain an adequate description of their share in the capital and the value thereof. (references) |
Human Rights | Thailand | Sleeping accommodations and access to medical care remain areas of concern. (references) |
Guinea | Some prisoners have reported sleeping on their knees because their cells were so small. (references) | |
Minorities | Comoros | In December 2000, also in Domoni, community members set fire to the house of a Christian man while he was sleeping inside; the man escaped. (references) |
Trade | Bahrain | Although sleeping partner arrangements are a common way to meet the 51 percent threshold, they can lead to problems and should be approached with care. (references) |
Travel | Russia | Moscow, travelers can generally ride overnight trains, although unaccompanied passengers are reminded to keep an eye on their valuables and lock their doors at night (if in a sleeping compartment), as some incidents of pick-pocketing have been reported. (references) |
Women | Pakistan | In June 2000, a man from Yar Hussain in the NWFP allegedly killed his 20-year-old daughter, Mumlikat Bibi, while she was sleeping. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the American army it is ingeniously called "rev-e-lee," and to that pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their misfortunes and their sacred dishonor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | William is lying there sleeping in the guest house there. We go back in. We sit down, watch a little TV, unwind a little bit, go to sleep. |
Rush Limbaugh | We have always thought the homeless knew more than we did sleeping out there in public places. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sleeping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 44.38% of the time. "Sleeping" is used about 1,272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 44.38% | 564 | 11,138 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40.3% | 512 | 11,844 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.24% | 194 | 22,014 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,272 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sleeping". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Carshena | N/A | Biblical | Sleeping |
| Janum | N/A | Biblical | Sleeping |
| Jashem | N/A | Biblical | Sleeping |
| Nemuel | N/A | Biblical | The sleeping of God |
| Shuni | N/A | Biblical | Sleeping |
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Expressions using "sleeping": African sleeping sickness ♦ let sleeping dogs lie ♦ sleeping accommodation ♦ sleeping around ♦ sleeping bag ♦ sleeping beauty ♦ sleeping belle ♦ sleeping capsule ♦ sleeping car ♦ sleeping compartment ♦ sleeping cure ♦ sleeping doll ♦ sleeping draught ♦ sleeping drug ♦ sleeping hibiscus ♦ sleeping lizard ♦ sleeping mat ♦ sleeping or silent partner ♦ sleeping pad ♦ sleeping partner ♦ sleeping pill ♦ sleeping platform ♦ sleeping policeman ♦ sleeping quarters ♦ sleeping range ♦ sleeping room ♦ sleeping saloon ♦ sleeping sickness ♦ sleeping suit ♦ sleeping table ♦ sleeping tablet ♦ sleeping together ♦ the sleeping beauty ♦ the sleeping pill. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sleeping": sleeping-bag, sleeping-bags, sleeping-beauty-style, sleeping-cap, sleeping-car, sleeping-carriage accommodation, sleeping-cars, sleeping-drag, sleeping-pill, sleeping-pills, sleeping-platform, sleeping-policemen, sleeping-quarters, sleeping-room, sleeping-space, sleeping-tablets. | |
Ending with "sleeping": still-sleeping. | |
Containing "sleeping": whose-been-sleeping-with-whom. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sleeping bag | 3,347 | sleeping cat | 89 |
sleeping | 1,078 | while you were sleeping | 84 |
sleeping beauty | 788 | sleeping woman | 80 |
awake sleeping | 521 | awake lyrics p.o.d sleeping | 78 |
sleeping pad | 449 | awake p.o.d sleeping | 76 |
sleeping pill | 383 | problem sleeping | 76 |
sleeping disorder | 346 | disney sleeping beauty | 71 |
sleeping bear dune | 309 | beauty coloring page sleeping | 65 |
sleeping girl | 253 | sleeping bear sand dune | 61 |
kid sleeping bag | 182 | down sleeping bag | 60 |
sleeping with the enemy | 158 | kid sleeping | 58 |
awake lyrics sleeping | 137 | awake lyrics pod sleeping | 57 |
sleeping baby | 128 | baby sleeping bag | 57 |
child sleeping bag | 125 | north face sleeping bag | 54 |
sleeping nude | 122 | sleeping man | 54 |
the sleeping dictionary | 114 | child sleeping | 53 |
sleeping beauty picture | 104 | sleeping teen | 52 |
sleeping boy | 99 | disneys sleeping beauty | 52 |
coleman sleeping bag | 99 | awake pod sleeping | 52 |
sleeping naked | 98 | sleeping mask | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sleeping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i fjetur (dormant, lethargic, sleepy, stagnant, torpid), gjumi. (various references) | |
Arabic | نائم (asleep). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сънотворно лекарство (sleeping draught), сънотворно (sleeping-pills), сънна болест (sleeping sickness), спяща красавица (sleeping beauty), спален чувал (flea-bag, sleeping bag), спален вагон (sleeper, sleeping car, wagon lit), приспивателно лекарство (sleeping draught). (various references) | |
Catalan | llit (bed, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place). (various references) | |
Chinese | 睡觉 (Slept), 睡眠 (slumber). (various references) | |
Croatian | spavaæa. (various references) | |
Czech | spací. (various references) | |
Danish | sovvogn (sleeping-car), sovevogn (sleeping car). (various references) | |
Dutch | slaapwagen (sleeping-car), slaapplaats (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), slaapkamer (bedroom, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place). (various references) | |
Esperanto | litvagono (sleeping-car), Dornorozeto (the Sleeping Beauty), dormejo (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place). (various references) | |
Estonian | magamisvagun (sleeping car). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svøvnstaður (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), svøvnkamar (sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place), skemma (abuse, insult, offend, sleeping-accomodation, sleeping-place). (various references) | |
Finnish | unitauti (sleeping-sickness), unissa (sleeping-sickness), unilääke (sleeping pill), prinsessa Ruusunen (the Sleeping Beauty), olla unessa (be asleep, be sleeping), nukkuva alue (sleeping range), makuuvaunu (sleeper, sleeping car, sleeping-car), makuusäkki (sleeping bag), dataa odottava tyhjä solualue (sleeping range), äänetön yhtiömies (dormant partner, silent partner, sleeping partner). (various references) | |
French | qui dort, endormi (sleepyhead). (various references) | |
German | schlafend (asleep, dormant, napping, nodding, roosting). (various references) | |
Greek | κοιμισμένοσ (asleep, dormant), που κοιμάται, ασθένεια ύπνου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ישן (asleep, old, sleep, slumbering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | alvás (dormancy, doss, sleep, slumber). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebluk (be fond of sleeping, sleep soundly). (various references) | |
Italian | addormentato (asleep, sleepy, slow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 催眠剤 (sleeping medicine), 寝台車 (sleeper, sleeping car). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さいみんやく (sleeping medicine), だきね (sleeping while embracing another), ねごこち (sleeping comfort or snugness), ざこね (sleeping together in a huddle), ねあせ (perspiration given off during sleep, sweating while sleeping), ねむりぐすり (anaesthetic, narcotic, sleeping drug, sleeping powder), ねむりびょう (sleeping sickness), しんしょく (bed and food, corrosion, eating and sleeping, erosion, infringement, mind and composure, Shinto priest, violation), しんだいしゃ (sleeper, sleeping car), ひざまくら (sleeping with one's head in another's lap), そいぶし (sleeping together), さいみんざい (sleeping medicine), ねぶくろ (sleeping bag), うきね (restless sleep, sleeping in a ship, sleeping on the surface of the water, sobbing), ごうきん (alloy, sleeping together), あさね (sleeping late in the morning), シュラーフザック (sleeping bag), シュラーフ (sleeping bag), カースリーパー (sleeping car), やぶをつついてへびをだす (let sleeping dogs lie), とうかん (bitter cold, disregard, frost, mailing, make light of, neglect, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping), ともね (sleeping together), ひとりね (sleeping alone), きたまくら (turning the head to the north in sleeping), たびね (sleeping away from home), すいみんざい (sleeping tablet), すいみんやく (sleep medication, sleeping pill), すいみんじかん (hours of sleep, sleeping hours), すやすや (sleeping soundly), ブルートレーン (blue train, sleeping train), ブルトレ (blue train, sleeping train), ダッチワイフ (bolster used for warmth when sleeping, cageused in bed in the tropics, life-sized doll used for masturbation), レムすいみん (rapid eye movement, REM sleeping), そいね (sleeping together), ねぞう (one's sleeping posture), たびまくら (sleeping away from home), ねがお (sleeping face), ねがえり (betrayal, double-crossing, turning over while sleeping in bed), ねくび (head of a sleeping person), ねざま (sleeping posture), ねぐせ (disarrangement of one's hair or bedding during sleep, sleeping habit), ねざけ (a drink before sleeping, nightcap), なみまくら (falling asleep to the sound of the ocean, sleeping while on a sea voyage), ねぼう (sleeping in late), ねさびしい (missing a sleeping companion), トリパノソーマしょう (sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis). (various references) | |
Korean | 잠 (sleep). (various references) | |
Manx | marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, stagnant), kyrloghe (benumb, cramped, insensible, numb, torpid). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sovevogn (sleeping-car). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eepingslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adormecido (asleep, numb, sleeper, slumberous, torpid). (various references) | |
Romanian | dormit (sleep). (various references) | |
Russian | спать спящий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | spavanje (doss, shut eye), spavajući. (various references) | |
Spanish | durmiente (sleeper). (various references) | |
Swedish | sovande (asleep, dormant). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sleeping. (various references) | |
Turkish | uyuyan (asleep, dormant, slumberous), uyutan, uyumaya yarayan, uyuma (shuteye, sleep), uyku (bye bye, dorm-, nap, repose, rest, shuteye, sleep, slumbers). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сон (doss, dream, dreamland, shut eye, sleep, slumber), сплячий (asleep, resting, sleeper), занімілий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | toa xe có giường ngủ (sleeping-car), thuốc ngủ (narcotic, sleeping-draught), quần áo ngủ (night-clothes, night-suit, sleeping-suit), bệnh buồn ngủ (sleeping-sickness, sleepy sickness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quietus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 45 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tote ercetai proV touV maqhtaV autou kai legei autoiV kaqeudete to loipon kai anapauesqe idou hggiken h wra kai o uioV tou anqrwpou paradidotai eiV ceiraV amartwlwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc venit ad discipulos suos et dicit illis dormite iam et requiescite ecce adpropinquavit hora et Filius hominis traditur in manus peccatorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða com he to hys leorning-cnihten& saigde heom. slæpeð eallunge & resteð eow. nu geneohlacð syo tid. þt mannes sunebeoð geseald on synfulra handa. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne he cam to his disciplis, and seide to hem, Slepe ye now, and reste ye; loo! the our hath neiyed, and mannus sone schal be takun in to the hondis of synneris; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then came he to his disciples and sayd vnto them: Slepe hence forth and take youre reest. Take hede the houre is at honde and ye sonne of man shalbe betrayed into ye hondes of synners. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then he cometh to his disciples, and saith to them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then he comes to the disciples; and says to them, Go on sleeping now, and take your rest: for the hour is come, and the Son of man is given into the hands of evil men. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 45 |
| Cebuano | Unya miadto siya sa mga tinun-an ug miingon kanila, "Nagakatulog pa ba gihapon kamo ug nagapamahulay? Tan-awa, ang takna haduol na, ug ang Anak sa Tawo igatugyan na ngadto sa mga kamot sa mga makasasala. |
| Croatian | Tada doðe uèenicima i reèe im: "Samo spavajte i poèivajte! Evo, približio se èas! Sin Èovjeèji predaje se u ruke grešnièke! |
| Danish | Da kommer han til Disciplene og siger til dem: "Sove I fremdeles og Hvile eder? Se, Timen er nær, og Menneskesønnen forrådes i Synderes Hænder. |
| Dutch | Toen kwam Hij tot Zijn discipelen, en zeide tot hen: Slaapt nu voort, en rust; ziet, de ure is nabij gekomen, en de Zoon des mensen wordt overgeleverd in de handen der zondaren. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän tuli opetuslasten tykö ja sanoi heille: "Te nukutte vielä ja lepäätte! Katso, hetki on lähellä, ja Ihmisen Poika annetaan syntisten käsiin. |
| French | Puis il alla vers ses disciples, et leur dit: Vous dormez maintenant, et vous vous reposez! Voici, l`heure est proche, et le Fils de l`homme est livré aux mains des pécheurs. |
| German | Da kam er zu seinen Jüngern und sprach zu ihnen: Ach wollt ihr nur schlafen und ruhen? Siehe, die Stunde ist hier, daß des Menschen Sohn in der Sünder Hände überantwortet wird. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sesudah itu Ia kembali lagi kepada pengikut-pengikut-Nya dan berkata, "Masihkah kalian tidur dan istirahat? Lihat, sudah sampai waktunya Anak Manusia diserahkan kepada kuasa orang-orang berdosa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kemudian baliklah Ia kepada murid-murid itu serta berkata kepada mereka itu, "Tidurlah kamu lagi dan hilangkan lelahmu; sekarang waktunya sudah hampir, maka Anak manusia akan diserahkan ke tangan orang berdosa. |
| Manx Gaelic | Eisht haink eh gys e ostyllyn, as dooyrt eh roo, Caddil-jee nish, as gow-jee nyn vea; cur-my-ner ta'n oor tayrn er-gerrey, as ta'n Mac dooinney er ny vrah gys laueyn peccee. |
| Maori | Katahi ia ka haere ki ana akonga, ka mea ki a ratou, Moe tonu, takoto marie: na ka tata te haora, ka tukua te Tama a te tangata ki nga ringa o te hunga hara. |
| Norwegian | Da kom han til disiplene og sa til dem: I sover altså og hviler eder! Se, timen er nær da Menneskesønnen skal overgis i synderes hender; |
| Portuguese | Então voltou para os discípulos e disse-lhes: Dormi agora e descansai. Eis que é chegada a hora, e o Filho do homem está sendo entregue nas mãos dos pecadores. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a venit la ucenici, wi le -a zis: ,,Dormiyi de acum wi odihniyi-vq!.. Iatq cq a venit ceasul ca Fiul omului sq fie dat kn mknile pqcqtowilor. |
| Russian | фПЗДБ РТЙИПДЙФ Л ХЮЕОЙЛБН уЧПЙН Й ЗПЧПТЙФ ЙН: ЧЩ ЧУЈ ЕЭЕ УРЙФЕ Й РПЮЙЧБЕФЕ? ЧПФ, РТЙВМЙЪЙМУС ЮБУ, Й уЩО юЕМПЧЕЮЕУЛЙК РТЕДБЕФУС Ч ТХЛЙ ЗТЕЫОЙЛПЧ; |
| Shuar | Aujas umik ni unuiniamuri pujamunman wémiayi. Tura tiarmiayi "Antsu yamaikia kanarum ayampratarum. Ura jeayi. Wi Aents Ajasu ain, tunaarintin shuarnum surunkatin jeayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha akawaendea wale wanafunzi, akawaambia, "Je, mngali mmelala na kupumzika? Tazameni! Saa yenyewe imefika, na Mwana wa Mtu atatolewa kwa watu wenye dhambi. |
| Swedish | Därefter kom han tillbaka till lärjungarna och sade till dem: "Ja, I soven ännu alltjämt och vilen eder! Se, stunden är nära då Människosonen skall bliva överlämnad i syndares händer. |
| Uma | Ka'oti-na mosampaya toe, nculii' wo'o-imi hi ana'guru-na to tolu toera, pai' na'uli' -raka: "Turu pai' leta' oa' -pada-koi? Hilo-dile, rata-mi tempo-na Aku' Ana' Manusia' rapobalu' pai' ratonu hi tauna to dada'a. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sleeping": sleepings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sleeping": outsleeping, oversleeping. (additional references) | |
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"Sleeping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leeping, seepingt, Skeaping, sleepping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleeping" (pronounced slē"ping) |
| 5 | -l ē" p i ng | bleeping, leaping. |
| 4 | -ē" p i ng | beeping, creeping, heaping, keeping, peeping, reaping, safekeeping, seeping, sweeping, weeping. |
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