Cool vs Sleep - What's the difference?
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Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.
Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
Calmly audacious.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
* 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
(label) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
(label) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
(label) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
(label) A dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless.
(label) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
* (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
A calm temperament.
(literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
To make cooler, less warm.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 24:
(figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
* Shakespeare:
(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
(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 ).
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)
To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
* 1854 , Anne E. Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases
To accommodate in beds.
To be slumbering in (a state).
To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
* Atterbury
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 14
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
* Shakespeare
(lb) to wait for a period of time without performing any action
As an acronym cool
is (computing) clips object]]-oriented [[language|language .As a noun sleep is
(uncountable) the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.As a verb sleep is
to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.cool
English
Alternative forms
* (slang) coo, kewl, kool, qewl, qoolEtymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Related to (l).Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
- Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
- My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- He had lost a cool hundred.
- leaving a cool four thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket
Synonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) chilly * (not showing emotion) distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional * (in fashion) ** (standard) , fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish ** (colloquial or slang) happening, hip, in, trendy * (acceptable) acceptable, all right, OK * (not upset) easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed'''Antonyms
* (having a slightly low temperature) lukewarm, tepid, warm * (not showing emotion) passionate * (knowing what to do and how to behave) awkward, uncool * (in fashion) , old hat, out, out of fashion * (acceptable) not cricket (UK), not on, unacceptable * (not upset) bothered, upset * (unenthusiastic) warmDerived terms
* cool head * coolish * coolly * coolness * keep one's cool * lose one's cool * uncoolQuotations
* The earliest use of the word in this way seems to be in '"The Moonstone"1868: *: "She has been a guest of yours at this house," I answered. "May I venture to suggest — if nothing was said about me beforehand — that I might see her here?" *: "Cool!" said Mr. Bruff. With that one word of comment on the reply that I had made to him, he took another turn up and down the room. *: "In plain English," he said, "my house is to be turned into a trap to catch Rachel ... * In 1602, Shakespeare wrote that Queen Gertrude told Hamlet: *: "O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience."
Noun
(-)- in the cool of the morning
Synonyms
*(calm temperament) calmness, composureEtymology 2
From (etyl) colen, from (etyl) , altered to resemble the adjective cool. See (l).Verb
(en verb)- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
- Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
- We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
Derived terms
* coolant * cooler * cooling * cool off * cool down * cool it * cool one's heels * cool one's jetsAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----sleep
English
(wikipedia sleep)Noun
- I really need some sleep .
- We need to conduct an overnight sleep''' test to diagnose your '''sleep problem.
- I’m just going to have a quick sleep .
- Wipe the sleep from your eyes .
- 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 * sleepyVerb
- You should sleep 8 hours a day .
- 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.
- This caravan can sleep up to four people .
- to sleep a dreamless sleep
- (Tennyson)
- We sleep over our happiness.
- Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
- a question sleeps''' for the present; the law '''sleeps
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!