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Bath vs Sleep - What's the difference?

bath | sleep |

As verbs the difference between bath and sleep

is that bath is (label) drown while sleep is to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

As a noun sleep is

(uncountable) the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

bath

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  • A building or area where bathing occurs.
  • * Gwilt
  • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
  • The act of bathing.
  • A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
  • a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
  • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
    Usage notes
    Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See also
    Derived terms
    * * * * * (US)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wash a person or animal in a bath
  • * {{quote-book, year=1990
  • , author=Mukti Jain Campion , title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability. citation , isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
  • , author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus , title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat citation , isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007
  • , author=Robin Barker , title=Baby Love citation , isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
  • * 1611, ,
  • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    sleep

    English

    (wikipedia sleep)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
  • I’m just going to have a quick sleep .
  • (uncountable) Rheum 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 .
  • 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.
  • * 1843 , Joh Müller, ?John Bell, Elements of Physiology (page 808)
  • The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena

    Synonyms

    * See also * (rheum) (l) (slang), (l) (UK dialectal), sleepy dust (informal)

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the noun "sleep") * asleep * beauty sleep * big sleep * biphasic sleep * dead sleep * deep sleep * divided sleep * dog sleep * electrosleep * go to sleep * morning sleep * orthodox sleep * polyphasic sleep * put to sleep * REM sleep * segmented sleep * sleep apnea * sleep-charged * sleep debt * sleep deprivation * sleep disorder * sleepful * sleep-learning * sleepless * sleep mask * sleep mode * sleepover * sleep paralysis * sleep schedule * sleep spindle * sleeptalk * sleepy

    Verb

  • To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
  • You should sleep 8 hours a day .
  • (Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
  • * 1854 , Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
  • A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
    When a top is sleeping , it is spinning but not precessing.
  • To accommodate in beds.
  • This caravan can sleep up to four people .
  • To be slumbering in (a state).
  • to sleep a dreamless sleep
    (Tennyson)
  • To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
  • * Atterbury
  • We sleep over our happiness.
  • To be dead; to lie in the grave.
  • * Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 14
  • Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
  • 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
  • * Shakespeare
  • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
  • (lb) to wait for a period of time without performing any action
  • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "sleep") * besleep * how can you sleep at night * forsleep * outsleep * oversleep * sleep around * sleep-at-noon * sleep in * sleep it off * sleep it out * sleep like a baby * sleep like a log * sleep off * sleep on * sleep out * sleep over * sleep together * sleep with * sleep with the fishes * Sleeping Beauty * sleeping bag * sleeping pill * sleepwalk

    Troponyms

    * (rest in a state of reduced consciousness) nap, doze, snooze

    See also

    * catnap * rest * shuteye * sleeping * slumber * snooze * zzz

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