(n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Example Sentences:
(1) And in grace notes that run through it, partly in the huger themes, Morpheus, Dream, the eponymous Sandman has one title that means more to me than any other.
(2) Not horror, although I plan a few moments that are up there with anything I did in Sandman , and not strictly fantasy either.
(3) He’s set to play a serial killer in The Sandman, the latest horror film from Italian master Dario Argento.
(4) When I needed to write a Sandman story set in hell, I played Reed's Metal Machine Music (which I've described as "four sides of tape hum, on the kinds of frequencies that drive animals with particularly sensitive hearing to throw themselves off cliffs and cause blind unreasoning panic in crowds" all day for two weeks.
(5) The four adaptation techniques compared were: Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB; Hood, 1950), Magnitude Estimated Binaural technique (MEB; Botté, Canévet, & Scharf, 1982), Magnitude Estimated Monaural technique, (MEM; Weiler, Sandman, & Pederson, 1981), and the Monaural Reaction Time technique (RT; Davis & Weiler, 1976).
(6) For theoretical reasons, subjects were also classified by degree of stereotypic behavior on the Fairview Problem Behavior Checklist (Barron & Sandman, 1983).
(7) Reed always did the exact opposite of what he was expected to do, writes Alexis Petridis • Neil Gaiman on Lou Reed: 'His songs were the soundtrack to my life' Sandman would not have happened without Lou Reed – and I named my daughter after Warhol's Holly Woodlawn, from Walk on the Wild Side.
(8) Sandman celebrates the marginalised, the people out on the edges.
(9) And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman.
(10) The previously-announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will arrive in May 2016, with films based on Shazam and Sandman in July and December of the same year.
(11) Gaiman has fallen foul of US censors before, with his Sandman graphic novel series regularly making the list of banned or challenged books compiled by the American Library Association (ALA), with claims of being "anti-family", featuring offensive language, or being deemed "unsuited to age group".
(12) The Sinister Six has comprised various of Spider-Man's enemies over the years, but a classic lineup might include Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, The Vulture, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter.
(13) Representative Charles Sandman also called for President Nixon's impeachment, becoming the sixth of the ten Republicans on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee who had voted against such action to change his mind.
(14) Only last month, the advertising watchdog banned a radio skit featuring the rewritten lyrics from the 1950s song Mr Sandman: "You make it easy when the month feels too long.
(15) King had liked Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw the madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: “This is really great.
(16) Patrick Barkham on the boom in motor sales • Wonga's "Mr Sandman" ad banned – payday lender's radio jingle was "irresponsible" says ASA Daft deal Tea-time economics?
(17) Sandman, the comic that made my name, would not have happened without Reed.
(18) Here, we propose a semi-automated adaptation of Sandman's manual method for the Monarch centrifugal analyzer.
(19) Since Metallica added its back catalogue to Spotify, the band’s most popular track, Nothing Else Matters, streamed more than 9.1m times, while Enter Sandman has notched up 9m streams.
(20) By recording phasic heart-rate it would be possible to elucidate 1982 findings of Walker and Sandman that changes in heart-rate are differentially related to the right and left cerebral hemispheres.
Sleep
Definition:
() imp. of Sleep. Slept.
(v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
(v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
(v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
(v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
(v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
(v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
(v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(4) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
(5) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(6) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(7) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(8) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
(9) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
(10) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
(11) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
(12) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
(13) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(14) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(15) The analogy with infant sleep patterns and results of studies of brain function in narcoleptics suggest that forebrain inhibitory processes are more important in narcoleptic symptomology than is brainstem dysfunction.
(16) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(17) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
(18) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(19) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
(20) This result is discussed in terms of either a function of time-of-day effect or of prior sleep intensity.