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noun
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) 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.
- (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, metonymic) A night.
- (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).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
noun
- (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.
- A state of being inactive or stuporous.
- A state of apathy or lethargy.
- a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
- inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy
noun
- (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
- (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
- (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
verb
- be in an inactive or dormant state
- (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
- sleep during winter
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
verb
- remain inactive or immobile
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- withstand the force of something
- be standing; be upright
- be available for stud services
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be in some specified state or condition
- put into an upright position
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
- (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- (intransitive) To remain valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
noun
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a support or foundation
- a defensive effort
- an interruption of normal activity
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- (cricket) A partnership.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- (US, historical) Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- The act of standing.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
verb
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- not move; be in a resting position
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
noun
- a dormant or quiescent state
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
verb
noun
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- awakening from sleep
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- A place where a wild animal goes to live or hibernate in the winter; hibernacle.
- A more permanent location where a group that normally moves around, such as an army, circus, group of explorers, etc., takes time off to shelter for the winter.
- A place where a farmer, beekeeper, nurseryman, etc. moves their charges in the winter.
- A place where someone spends one or more winters.
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
- (transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep.
- (informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
- help someone go to bed
- kill gently, as with an injection
adv
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
- Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
- (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
- temporary cessation or suspension
noun
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
noun
- quiet and inactive restfulness
- a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- (microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
- (entomology) In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
- The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
- The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
adj
- Physically inactive.
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
- relating to involuntary bodily functions
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- composed of vegetation or plants
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
adj
- (biology) Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
- (pathology, of a virus) Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
- Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
- (pathology) not presently active
- potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
noun
noun
- (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
- (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
- (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
- the act of retiring into inactivity
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
noun
- inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- (figurative, uncountable) The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
- (economics, uncountable) The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.
prep_phrase
adj
- physically inactive
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
adv
verb
noun
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) 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.
- (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, metonymic) A night.
- (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).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
noun
- (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.
- A state of being inactive or stuporous.
- A state of apathy or lethargy.
- a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
- inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy
noun
- (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
- (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
- (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period
- (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
noun
- a dormant or quiescent state
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
verb
noun
- Arousal from sleep or hibernation.
- A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.
- Sexual arousal.
- The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
- mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse
- a state of heightened physiological activity
- the act of arousing
- awakening from sleep
noun
- A place where a wild animal goes to live or hibernate in the winter; hibernacle.
- A more permanent location where a group that normally moves around, such as an army, circus, group of explorers, etc., takes time off to shelter for the winter.
- A place where a farmer, beekeeper, nurseryman, etc. moves their charges in the winter.
- A place where someone spends one or more winters.
noun
- Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
- Expectancy of a noble or armigeral title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
- (law) Expectancy; a condition when an ownership of real property is undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
- temporary cessation or suspension
noun
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
noun
- quiet and inactive restfulness
- a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- (microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
- (entomology) In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
- The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
- The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
noun
- (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
- (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
- (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
- the act of retiring into inactivity
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
noun
- inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- (figurative, uncountable) The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
- (economics, uncountable) The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.
noun
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) 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.
- (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, metonymic) A night.
- (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).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
verb
- be in an inactive or dormant state
- (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
- sleep during winter
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
verb
- remain inactive or immobile
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- withstand the force of something
- be standing; be upright
- be available for stud services
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be in some specified state or condition
- put into an upright position
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
- (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- (intransitive) To remain valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
noun
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a support or foundation
- a defensive effort
- an interruption of normal activity
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- (cricket) A partnership.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- (US, historical) Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- The act of standing.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
verb
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- not move; be in a resting position
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
- (transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep.
- (informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
- help someone go to bed
- kill gently, as with an injection
verb
adj
noun
adv
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
noun
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
verb
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
adj
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- inactive but capable of becoming active
noun
adj
- Physically inactive.
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
- relating to involuntary bodily functions
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- composed of vegetation or plants
adj
- (biology) Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
- (pathology, of a virus) Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
- Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
- (pathology) not presently active
- potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
noun
adj
- physically inactive
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.