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

Verb

To display, to have somebody see (something).

* , chapter=22

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To bestow; to confer.

to show''' mercy; to '''show favour

To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.

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To guide or escort.

To be visible, to be seen.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Just such she shows before a rising storm.

* (1809-1892)

All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.

*

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(informal) To put in an appearance; show up.

(informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.

(racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.

(obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

My lord of York, it better showed with you.