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Definition of Sleeping

1. Adjective. Lying with head on paws as if sleeping.

2. Noun. The state of being asleep.

3. Noun. Quiet and inactive restfulness.

4. Noun. The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate.

Definition of Sleeping

1. Verb. (present participle of sleep) ¹

2. Adjective. asleep ¹

3. Adjective. used for sleep; used to produce sleep. ¹

4. Noun. the state or act of being asleep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sleeping

1. the act of one that sleeps [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sleeping

1. From Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. Sleeping partner, a dormant partner. See Dormant. Sleeping table, a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeping

sleeper cell sleeper cells sleeper goby sleeper nest sleepers sleepery sleepest sleepeth sleepful sleepfulness

sleepier sleepiest sleepily sleepiness sleepinesses sleeping (current term) sleeping around sleeping at the switch sleeping bag sleeping bags

sleeping beauty sleeping capsule sleeping car sleeping cars sleeping draught sleeping giant sleeping giants sleeping hibiscus sleeping lions sleeping off

Literary usage of Sleeping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"26), the 6th section of which provided as follows : " That the running and using of sleeping cars or coaches on railroads in Tennessee, not owned by the ..."

2. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"sleeping beauty in the wood and other stories. Lansing. Fairy tales, v. 2. ... Briar Rose is a simpler version of the same sleeping beauty in the wood. ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Fresh-air sleeping rooms for everybody. TH Rogers. 11. Country Life. ... sleeping sickness. Combating the sleeping sickness. Sei. Am. Ehrlich's chemotherapy ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"Preliminary Xotes on sleeping Sickness. By R. U Moffat, Principal Medical Officer, ... Reports of the sleeping-sickness Commission of the Royal Society. ..."

5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Presence of Trypanosoma in sleeping sickness. Rep. SS Comm. ... Adult forms and developmental forms of the Trypanosome found in sleeping sickness. ..."

6. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER III How four queens found Launcelot sleeping, and how by enchantment he was taken and led into a castle. Now leave we these knights prisoners, ..."

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