Flop vs Sleep - What's the difference?
flop | sleep |
To fall heavily, because lacking energy.
To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
(sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
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.
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
* 2003: Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games
* 2005: Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level
A place to stay, sleep or live. See flophouse
* 1973 , Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal , Pantheon Books, page 135,
* 1969 , Howard E. Freeman, Norman R. Kurtz, America's Troubles: A Casebook on Social Conflict , Prentice-Hall, Page 414,
* 2006 , Ray Douglas, America Is Headed for a Fall , AuthorHouse, Page 53,
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,
* 1960 , Winston Graham, Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 , Bodley Head, Page 302,
* 2003 , John W. Billheimer, Drybone Hollow , St. Martin's Press, Page 215,
Right, squarely, flat-out.
With a flopping sound.
(computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.
(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 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 soundVerb
(flopp)- He flopped down in front of the television as he was exhausted from work.
- (Charles Dickens)
- The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract.
- 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.
- The brim of a hat flops .
Derived terms
* flophouse * flopover * flopper * floppyNoun
(en noun)- The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.
- Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).
- The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop .
- They have opened up crypts and basements as immense pads where vagrant and impoverished hippies can flop for the night..
- ... is not just the old material goal of "three hots and a place to flop ," it ....
- 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, ...
- ... cowpat or cow-flop , Cow dung, often used dry as heating fuel.
- "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, ...
- "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 bombAdverb
(-)See also
* aflopEtymology 2
Syllabic abbreviation of (floating point) + (operation).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* megaflop * gigaflop * teraflop ----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!