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Definition: Doze Off |
Doze OffVerb1. Change from a waking to a sleeping state; "he always falls asleep during lectures". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | German (abpoofen ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Doze OffSynonyms: dope off (v), drift off (v), drop off (v), drowse off (v), fall asleep (v), flake out (v), nod off (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: wake up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "doze off": take a short doze off. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "doze off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bie në gjumë të lehtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غفو (drowse, nap, slumber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | задрямвам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 睏 (sleepy), 困 (distress, sleepy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zdřímnout si (have a catnap, nap, snooze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | torkahtaa (take a nap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einnicken (nod off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποκοιμάμαι (drop off, fall asleep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elbóbiskol, elalszik (drop off, fall asleep, go to sleep, oversleep, to die down, to drop off, to drop off to sleep, to get off to sleep, to go dead, to go off, to go off to sleep, to go to sleep, to nod off, to zonk out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tertidur, kantuk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | assopirsi (cool down, drowse), appisolarsi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ozeday offay moţãi (doze, doze away, drowse, nap, nod, slumber, snooze). (various references) забыться (forget oneself), задремать. (various references) zadremati (fall asleep, slumber away). (various references) slumra till (drop off). (various references) งีบหลับไป. (various references) uyuyakalmak (drop asleep, drop off, fall asleep, oversleep, oversleep oneself), uyuklamak (be somnolent, doze, drowse, drowse off, go to the land of nod, nap, nod off, sleep, slumber, snooze, zizz), içi geçmek (nap, shrivel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-o-o-z" | |
-2 letters: offed, oozed. | |
-3 letters: doff, doze, feod, food, ooze. | |
-4 letters: doe, eff, fed, fez, foe, ode, off, zed, zoo. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, ef, od, oe, of. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 7A 65 4F 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01111010 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o z e   O f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 007A 0065 004F 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388192712497272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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