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adv
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
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noun
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verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
noun
verb
- be almost asleep
- (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
- express or signify by nodding
- lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation
- sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion
- let the head fall forward through drowsiness
- (ambitransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
- (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- (ambitransitive) To sway, move up and down.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- (transitive) To signify by a nod.
- (ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
verb
- be asleep
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (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).
noun
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- 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).
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (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.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a period of time spent sleeping
- sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
- (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
verb
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- retreat
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- (intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.
- (intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
- (intransitive, slang) To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- prepare for sleep
- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
noun
verb
verb
- experience while sleeping
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
- (intransitive) To daydream.
- (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
noun
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- a cherished desire
- someone or something wonderful
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
- (countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
adj
noun
- a period of sleeplessness
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
verb
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
noun
noun
verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
noun
verb
- be asleep
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (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).
noun
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- 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).
noun
- a period of time spent sleeping
- sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
- (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a period of sleeplessness
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
verb
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (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.
verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
noun
verb
- be almost asleep
- (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
- express or signify by nodding
- lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation
- sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion
- let the head fall forward through drowsiness
- (ambitransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
- (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- (ambitransitive) To sway, move up and down.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- (transitive) To signify by a nod.
- (ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
verb
- be asleep
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (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).
noun
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- 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).
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (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.
verb
verb
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- fall to a lower standard
- fall or diminish
- retreat
- (idiomatic, transitive, especially US) To deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To drop, fall.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To drop from, fall from.
- (slang) To abandon or give up on (something); to be abandoned or given up on.
- (intransitive, figurative) To end a connection with a telephone queue, either by hanging up or after being served or processed.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To fall asleep.
- (intransitive) To lessen or reduce.
verb
- change from a waking to a sleeping state
- (intransitive, informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion or intoxication; to lie down.
- (intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert someone.
- (intransitive, slang) To crack up or break down; to have a mental episode; to behave eccentrically.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- prepare for sleep
- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
verb
- experience while sleeping
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
- (intransitive) To daydream.
- (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
noun
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- a cherished desire
- someone or something wonderful
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
- (countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.