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Sleeping vs Sweeping - What's the difference?

sleeping | sweeping |

As verbs the difference between sleeping and sweeping

is that sleeping is while sweeping is .

As adjectives the difference between sleeping and sweeping

is that sleeping is asleep while sweeping is wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.

As nouns the difference between sleeping and sweeping

is that sleeping is the state or act of being asleep while sweeping is (countable) an instance of sweeping.

sleeping

English

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Asleep.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

    • Derived terms

    * sleeping bag * Sleeping Beauty * sleeping car * sleeping hours * sleeping pill * sleeping room

    Noun

  • the state or act of being asleep.
  • * 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
    • there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings .

    Anagrams

    * peelings ----

    sweeping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (countable) An instance of sweeping.
    • The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.
  • (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
    • Sweeping took all morning.
    The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.

    Derived terms

    * sweeping day * sweeping flood * sweeping-machine * sweeping rain * at a sweeping reduction * sweepings

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things
    • The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.
    He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
  • Completely overwhelming
    • He claimed a sweeping victory.

    Synonyms

    * across-the-board

    Anagrams

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