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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleep \Sleep\, v. t. 1. To be slumbering in -- followed by a cognate object; as to sleep a dreamless sleep. --Tennyson. 2. To give sleep to to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] --Blackw. Mag. {To sleep away}, to spend in sleep; as to sleep away precious time. {To sleep off}, to become free from by sleep; as to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleep \Sleep\, obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleep \Sleep\, n. [AS. sl[=ae]p; akin to OFries sl[=e]p, OS sl[=a]p, D. slaap, OHG. sl[=a]f, G. schlaf Goth. sl[=e]ps. See {Sleep}, v. i.] A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. ``A man that waketh of his sleep.'' --Chaucer. O sleep, thou ape of death. --Shak. Note: Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose. The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its control of the powers. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slept}; p. pr & vb n. {Sleeping}.] [OE. slepen, AS sl?pan; akin to OFries sl?pa, OS sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen Goth. sl?pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf {Lapse}.] 1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense to slumber. --Chaucer. Watching at the head of these that sleep. --Milton. 2. Figuratively: a To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. We sleep over our happiness. --Atterbury. b To be dead; to lie in the grave. Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him --1 Thess. iv 14. c To be or appear to be in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps. How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [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: {slumber}] 2: a torpid state resembling sleep 3: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "a brief nap" [syn: {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}, {eternal sleep}, {quietus}] v 1: be asleep [syn: {kip}, {slumber}, {log Z's}, {catch some Z's}] [ant: {wake}] 2: be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people" From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: sleep vi 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses. 2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. {block}; also in `sleep on', syn. with `block on'. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: "They can't get the fix I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again." From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: sleep 1.system, multitasking> (Or "{block}") When a {process} on a {multitasking} system asks the {scheduler} to deactivate it until some given external event (e.g. an {interrupt} or a specified time delay) occurs. The alternative is to {poll} or "{busy wait}" for the event but this uses processing power. Also used in the phrase "sleep on" (or "block on") some external event, meaning to wait for it E.g. the {Unix} command of the same name which pauses the current process for a given number of seconds. 2. To go into partial deactivation to save power. [{Jargon File}] (2000-09-25)
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