Thin vs Sleep - What's the difference?
thin | sleep |
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
* Addison
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
* Dryden
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
* Francis Bacon
(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
As a proper noun thin
is the fifth earthly branch represented by the.As a noun sleep is
(uncountable) the state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.As a verb sleep is
to rest in a state of reduced consciousness.thin
English
Adjective
(thinner)- thin plate of metal
- thin paper
- thin board
- thin covering
- thin wire
- thin string
- thin person
- The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- a thin disguise
Synonyms
* reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See alsoAntonyms
* thickDerived terms
* into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thinNoun
(en noun)- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Verb
Derived terms
* thin outAdverb
(en adverb)- seed sown thin
- Spain is thin sown of people.
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* 1000 English basic words ----sleep
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!