Racecar vs Sleeper - What's the difference?
racecar | sleeper | Antonyms |
Someone who sleeps.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
* Francis Bacon
A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
A railroad sleeping car.
Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family .
A nurse shark.
A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
(slang) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
(rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1901
, title = The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City)
, first = George
, last = Gipps
, location = Shanghai
, publisher = Kelly and Walsh
, ol = 23299616M
, page = 40
, pageurl = http://archive.org/stream/fightinginnorthc00gipppage/40/mode/2up
, passage = The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.
}}
(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists]] beneath and [[floorboard, floorboards above.
(nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
(nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
Racecar is an antonym of sleeper.
As nouns the difference between racecar and sleeper
is that racecar is while sleeper is someone who sleeps or sleeper can be (rail transport|british) a railroad tie.sleeper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- I'm a light sleeper : I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
- She's a heavy sleeper : it takes a lot to wake her up.
- Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judged confined in the execution
- We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
- A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper , becoming much more popular decades after being released.
- Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers .
