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sleeping

verb
/ˈsliːpɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of sleep

    • ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

  2. Asleep.

    • We found a sleeping child inside the church.

  3. Used for sleep

    Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

      • And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
      • […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sleeping. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sleeping02sleep03consciousness04conscious05aware06vigilant07vigilance08watchfulness09wakefulness10wakeful

A definitional loop anchored at sleeping. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sleeping

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA