Shuteye vs Dream - What's the difference?
shuteye | dream |
Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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A hope or wish.
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* (Martin Luther King)
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 5, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (w) (1819-1885)
(lb) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
(lb) To hope, to wish.
(lb) To daydream.
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(lb) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
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*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Cowper)
*:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
*(and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
*:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
(lb) To consider the possibility (of).
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*1599-1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , Act I scene 5, lines 167-8
*:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
As nouns the difference between shuteye and dream
is that shuteye is while dream is imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.As a verb dream is
(lb) to see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.dream
English
(wikipedia dream)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The derivation from Old English dr?am'' is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word ''dr?am meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with “joy” sense, which would account for the common definition in the other Germanic languages, or the derivation may indeed simply be a strange progression from “mirth, joy, musical sound”.. Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English were . The verb is from (etyl) (m), possibly (see above) from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
- I had a dream' which was not all a ' dream .
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams .
- I have a dream' that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a ' dream today!
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993), passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams .}}
- There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, / Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream .
- It is not to them a mere dream , but a very real aim which they propose.