English Dictionary

sleep

IPA（発音記号）

/sliːp/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 くだけた表現 換喩的

(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. / (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping. / (informal, metonymically) A night.

日本語の意味

(不可算) 人や動物が日常生活のリズムに沿って休息中に意識が低下する状態 / (可算, 口語) 眠る行為または眠りの一回の体験 / (口語, 転用的) 一夜

Despite the noise outside, she finally got some much-needed sleep.

外の騒音にもかかわらず、彼女はついに必要としていた睡眠を十分にとることができた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

I really need some sleep.

意味（2）

(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.

I’m just going to have a quick sleep.

意味（3）

(informal, metonymically) A night.

There are only three sleeps till Christmas!

意味（4）

(uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).

Wipe the sleep from your eyes.

意味（5）

A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.

The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena […]

意味（6）

The hibernation of animals.

sleeps （ plural ）