soporific |
1. n. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. | |
The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep. | |
2. n. (figuratively) Something boring or dull. | |
3. adj. Tending to induce sleep. | |
The professor delivered a soporific lecture. | |
4. adj. (figuratively) Boring, dull. | |
inducing |
1. v. present participle of induce | |
2. adj. That induces; inductive | |
induce |
1. v. To lead by persuasion or influence; incite. | |
2. v. To cause, bring about, lead to. | |
His meditation induced a compromise. Opium induces sleep. | |
3. v. (physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction. | |
4. v. (transitive, logic) To infer by induction. | |
5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce. | |
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw on, place upon. | |
sleep |
1. v. (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | |
You should sleep 8 hours a day. | |
2. v. (intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | |
When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing. | |
3. v. To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | |
4. v. To accommodate in beds. | |
This caravan can sleep up to four people. | |
5. v. To be slumbering in (a state). | |
to sleep a dreamless sleep | |
6. v. (intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. | |
7. v. (intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant. | |
a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps | |
9. v. (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action. | |
After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again. | |
10. v. =====Troponyms===== | |
11. v. (rest in a state of reduced consciousness) nap, doze, snooze | |
12. n. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. | |
I really need some sleep. | |
We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem. | |
13. n. (informal) An act or instance of sleeping. | |
I’m just going to have a quick sleep. | |
14. n. (informal, by extension) A night. | |
There are only three sleeps till Christmas! - | |
15. n. 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). | |
Wipe the sleep from your eyes. | |
16. n. 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. | |
Synonyms: nyctinasty, nyctitropism | |
17. n. The hibernation of animals. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
sedation |
1. n. The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives. | |
The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation. | |