sleeping
pronunciation
How to pronounce sleeping in British English:
UK ['sli:pɪŋ]
How to pronounce sleeping in American English:
US [ˈslipɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- the state of being asleep
- quiet and inactive restfulness
- the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
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- Adjective:
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
Word Origin
- sleeping (adj.)
- c. 1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant. It is ill wakyng of a sleapyng dogge. [Heywood, 1562] It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. [Chaucer, c. 1385]
Example
- 1. Fortunately , tms does not have any negative effect on sleeping patterns .
- 2. Rows of sleeping migrant workers fill the sidewalks .
- 3. Drs. jones and fu stress that there is no genetic test for short sleeping .
- 4. This means my sleeping time and subsequently my waking time does not get affected .
- 5. An international group of researchers looked at this as well as problems eating and sleeping .