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Definition: Sleepwalking |
SleepwalkingNoun1. Walking by a person who is asleep. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sleepwalking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonyms: SleepwalkingSynonyms: noctambulation (n), noctambulism (n), somnambulation (n), somnambulism (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sleepwalkers engage is their activites with their eyes open so they can navigate their surroundings, not with their eyes closed and their arms outstretched as parodied in cartoons and Hollywood productions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sleepwalking."
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Health | People awakened during deep sleep do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes after they wake up. Some children experience bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking during deep sleep. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sleepwalking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Sleepwalking" is used about 18 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) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sleepwalking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schlafwandelnd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπνοβατικόσ (somnambulistic, somnambulistical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alvajárás (moonwalking, noctambulism, sleep-walking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sonnambulismo (somnambulism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 夢遊病 (somnambulism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むゆうびょう (somnambulism, sonambulism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepwalkingslay somnambulism (somnambulism). (various references) лунатизм (noctambulizm, somnambulism). (various references) somnambulismo (somnambulism). (various references) การเ"ินละเมอ. (various references) uyurgezerlik (noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism), uyurgezer (night walker, noctambulist, sleepwalker, somnambulist, somnambulistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sleepwalking" (pronounced slē"pwô'king) |
| 5 | -w ô' k i ng | jaywalking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-k-l-l-n-p-s-w" | |
-2 letters: weaselling. | |
-3 letters: sleepwalk, weaklings, weaseling. | |
-4 letters: elapsing, ensilage, galilees, galleins, glenlike, inkwells, keepings, kleagles, lapwings, legalise, lineages, linkages, newspeak, palewise, peelings, penalise, pillages, pinwales, pleasing, seallike, sepaline, skelping, skiplane, sleeking, sleeping, snaglike, spalling, speaking, speeling, spelling, spillage, spinelle, splenial, swanlike, sweeping, swelling, walkings, wasplike, weakling, weepings, weigelas. | |
-5 letters: ainsell, alkenes, alkines, alleges, alpines, apelike. | |
| 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 77 61 6C 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . . .--. .--. .- .-.. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 01110111 01100001 01101100 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S l e e p w a l k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006C 0065 0065 0070 0077 0061 006C 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537871718289677877758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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