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Meaning of sleep

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sleep
      n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which
           consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get
           enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless
           slumber" [syn: {sleep}, {slumber}]
      2: a torpid state resembling deep sleep [syn: {sleep}, {sopor}]
      3: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a
         little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: {sleep},
         {nap}]
      4: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a
         bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her
         husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn:
         {rest}, {eternal rest}, {sleep}, {eternal sleep}, {quietus}]
      v 1: be asleep [syn: {sleep}, {kip}, {slumber}, {log Z's},
           {catch some Z's}] [ant: {wake}]
      2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six
         people"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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