What is the difference between snooze and sleep?
snooze | sleep |
To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
To pause; to postpone for a short while.
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A period of sleep; a nap.
Something boring.
(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
Sleep is a troponym of snooze.
In intransitive terms the difference between snooze and sleep
is that snooze is to sleep, especially briefly; to nap while sleep is (Of a spinning top) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.In transitive terms the difference between snooze and sleep
is that snooze is to pause; to postpone for a short while while sleep is to be slumbering in (a state).snooze
English
Verb
(intransitive)- The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
- It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock
- Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
- To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
Noun
(en noun)- The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
- The whole movie was a snooze .
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* catnap * nap * shuteye * slumbersleep
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!