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Sleeping vs Dormant - What's the difference?

sleeping | dormant |

As adjectives the difference between sleeping and dormant

is that sleeping is asleep while dormant is inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

As a verb sleeping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun sleeping

is the state or act of being asleep.

sleeping

English

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Asleep.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

    • Derived terms

    * sleeping bag * Sleeping Beauty * sleeping car * sleeping hours * sleeping pill * sleeping room

    Noun

  • the state or act of being asleep.
  • * 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
    • there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings .

    Anagrams

    * peelings ----

    dormant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dormaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
    • Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
    The bank account was dormant ; there had been no transactions in months.
    This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
  • * Burke
    • It is by lying dormant a long time, or being very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
  • (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
    • a lion dormant

    Related terms

    * dorm * dormancy * dormition * dormitive * dormitory

    Antonyms

    * active * active, extinct

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