sleeping has definitions from the fields of biology,heraldry
1
[ noun ] the state of being asleep

Used in print

(Sports Age, 24:9...)

Consider the equipment needed to protect this many from the weather , to make their cooking easy and their sleeping comfortable .

Related terms

waking sleep dream sleep

2
[ noun ] quiet and inactive restfulness

Related terms

ease vegetation

3
[ adjective ] lying asleep

Synonyms

slumbering

Examples

"don't wake the sleeping children" "gazed with affection at his slumbering form"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world , it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future , in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep .

Related terms

asleep

4
[ adjective ] (heraldry) lying with head on paws as if sleeping

Synonyms

dormant

Related terms

heraldry unerect

5
[ noun ] (biology) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
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