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# sleep

«sleep» in Mova's school dictionary: **to rest with your eyes closed and your mind switched off…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, noun (sleep, sleeps, slept, sleeping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To sleep is to rest with your eyes closed and your mind switched off, as you do at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#m1)

2) Sleep is the state of sleeping, or how much rest you get. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#m2)

3) A sleepover is when a friend stays the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#m3)

4) «Go to sleep» means start sleeping; «put to sleep» can mean to give an animal a gentle death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: hours of sleep, often added over nights or compared; times from bedtime to waking. Health: children need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep. Science: animals that sleep through winter hibernate. Everyday: fall asleep, sleep in, sleepy, sleeping bag, «sleep on it» (think about it overnight).

### examples

- She sleeps 9 hours a night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x1)
- He slept from 9 pm to 7 am. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x2)
- How many hours does he sleep in a week? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x3)
- The baby sleeps 3 hours more than her brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x4)
- Turn off your screen an hour before you go to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x5)
- Bears sleep through the cold winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x6)
- We slept in sleeping bags in the tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x7)
- My leg has gone to sleep! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x8)
- The old man went to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/#x9)

### note

Irregular: sleep, slept, slept. Hours a night × nights = total; times from bedtime to waking need counting across midnight. Trap: going from pm to am crosses midnight (9 pm to 7 am is 10 hours). Asleep (adjective) vs sleep (verb).

### In the corpora

- [Night shifts mean working through the night and sleeping in the day; nurses, drivers, bakers and warehouse workers often do them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/6/)
- [A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/)
- [When a person dies, their body stops working for ever; it is not sleep, and they do not come back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/1/)
- [Being dead means the body has stopped working for ever; it is not the same as sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/10/)
- [Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sleep» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleep/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.