English Dictionary

sleep

/sliːp/

noun

(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.

I need to get more sleep.

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.