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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.

flop

English

Etymology 1

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of (flap) with a duller, heavier sound

Verb

(flopp)
  • To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
  • He flopped down in front of the television as he was exhausted from work.
    (Charles Dickens)
  • To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
  • (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
  • It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year.
    While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.
  • To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
  • The brim of a hat flops .
    Derived terms
    * flophouse * flopover * flopper * floppy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a game.
  • * 1996: John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning
  • The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
  • * 2003: Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
  • Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
  • * 2005: Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
  • The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop .
  • A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
  • * 1973 , Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal , Pantheon Books, page 135,
  • They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night..
  • * 1969 , Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict , Prentice-Hall, Page 414,
  • ... is not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop ," it ....
  • * 2006 , Ray Douglas, America Is Headed for a Fall , AuthorHouse, Page 53,
  • Hugh and the boys playing in beautiful settings with beautiful young babes was a far cry from grungy hippies doing it in a filthy flop house, ...
  • A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • * 2000 , Dean King, A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales , Henry Holt & Co., Page 162,
  • ... cowpat or cow-flop , Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
  • * 1960 , Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 , Bodley Head, Page 302,
  • "Maybe as you think," he said, "because as I've the misfortune of an accidental slip on a cow-flop therefore I has the inability of an unborn babe, ...
  • * 2003 , John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow , St. Martin's Press, Page 215,
  • "Cow flop in a neat package is still cow flop. What did Cable stand to gain from the flood?"
    Synonyms
    * (complete failure) dud, fiasco, turkey * (specifically in entertainment) box office bomb

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • With a flopping sound.
  • See also
    * aflop

    Etymology 2

    Syllabic abbreviation of (floating point) + (operation).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
  • Derived terms
    * megaflop * gigaflop * teraflop ----

    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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