passive sleep

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• Sleep medicine — is a medical subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge and answered many questions about sleep wake functioning. [cite… …   Wikipedia

• sleep — sleepful, adj. sleeplike, adj. /sleep/, v., slept, sleeping, n. v.i. 1. to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake. 2. Bot. to… …   Universalium

• Sleep — Waking up redirects here. For other uses, see Waking Up (disambiguation). This article is about sleep in general; for specifically non human sleep see Sleep (non human); for other uses, see Sleep (disambiguation). Sleeping child Sleep is a… …   Wikipedia

• sleep — sleep1 [ slip ] (past tense and past participle slept [ slept ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive to go into a natural state in which you are unconscious for a time and your body rests, especially for several hours at night: The baby usually sleeps in …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• sleep */*/*/ — I UK [sliːp] / US [slɪp] verb Word forms sleep : present tense I/you/we/they sleep he/she/it sleeps present participle sleeping past tense slept UK [slept] / US past participle slept 1) [intransitive] to go into a natural state in which you are… …   English dictionary

• sleep — [[t]sli͟ːp[/t]] ♦♦ sleeps, sleeping, slept 1) N UNCOUNT Sleep is the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think. They were exhausted from lack of sleep... Try and get some sleep... Be… …   English dictionary

• sleep-eater — n. A person who eats while asleep. Also: sleep eater, sleepeater. sleep eat v. sleep eating pp. Example Citations: I am a sleep eater. It has happened only a few times, and I m not sure if it s connected to Ambien. It started last year when a… …   New words

• Passive Entry — Keyless Go beschreibt das automatische System, ein Fahrzeug ohne aktive Benutzung eines Autoschlüssel (also „keyless“, zu deutsch „schlüssellos“) zu entriegeln und durch das bloße betätigen des Startknopfes zu starten. Ermöglicht wird dies durch… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• passive overeating — pp. The excessive eating of foods that are high in fat because the human body is slow to recognize the caloric content of rich foods; eating whatever is put in front of you, even to the point of discomfort. Also: passive over eating. Example… …   New words

• Impersonal passive voice — The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero.The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb s subject, the construction… …   Wikipedia

• go — 1 verb past tense went, past participle gone, 3rd person singular present tense goes TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE SPEAKER 1 LEAVE SOMEWHERE (I) to leave a place to go somewhere else; depart: I wanted to go, but Anna wanted to stay. | It s late; I must… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English