(n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
(n.) That which lies dormant, as a law.
(n.) A sleeping car.
(n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
(n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
(n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
(n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
(n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
(n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
(n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
(n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) Thirteen sleep-onset insomniacs and nine good sleepers were selected to differ only in their sleep-onset latencies as confirmed by polysomnography.
(4) Deutsche Bahn, the German rail provider, confirmed this month that its City Night Line sleeper trains on the Climate Express route would cease from 1 November, while the night train that connects Paris to Berlin, Hamburg and Munich will be stopped from December.
(5) Individuals complaining of disturbed sleep that was verified by polysomnographic indices (objective DIMS) and a group with complaints of disturbed sleep in the absence of objective findings (subjective DIMS) were compared with normal sleepers.
(6) Nets and sleepers were rotated between huts on different nights, the design being based on a series of Latin squares and conducted double-blind.
(7) A significant difference was observed in the sleep pattern of the patients with nocturnal attacks (who were good sleepers and received no anticonvulsants) and healthy controls.
(8) Fifty-six poor sleepers, aged from 20 to 30, were compared with 46 good sleepers of the same age regarding objective sleep parameters and personality.
(9) Despite claims of being "light" sleepers who are easily awakened by noise, poor sleeper auditory arousal thresholds were the same as those of good sleepers.
(10) However, when the distribution of body movements through the night was considered, the dynamic of nocturnal motor activity typified poor sleepers with affective symptoms.
(11) The team of regional advisers and rough sleeper and youth specialists which have provided councils with expert guidance on meeting statutory homelessness duties since 2007 will be disbanded just as the bedroom tax comes in.
(12) "In any strike, Iran would likely retaliate against US soldiers and assets in Afghanistan and Iraq, and might activate sleeper cells to launch al-Qaida-like attacks against the US homeland and in Europe."
(13) Pull it off and the sport could become a sleeper hit of the summer – as well as making its leading men and lady genuine box office.
(14) As a test of the hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be less reflective and more conformist in their thinking than long sleepers, the I-E scale scores of 15 short and 15 long sleepers were compared.
(15) According to the differential decay interpretation, a sleeper effect occurs when message and discounting cue have opposite and near-equal immediate impacts that are not well-integrated in memory.
(16) She acquired British nationality through marriage before travelling to the US to join a network of sleeper agents.
(17) 13 chronic primary insomniacs and a matched group of normal sleepers were studied in terms of their level of novelty-seeking, ability to fantasize, and cognitive rumination.
(18) Two groups of good and poor sleepers were compared (15 subjects aged 22-26 years in each).
(19) Young, H. Wallberg-Henriksson, M. D. Sleeper, and J. O. Holloszy.
(20) Clinical and clinimetric properties of the PSQI were assessed over an 18-month period with "good" sleepers (healthy subjects, n = 52) and "poor" sleepers (depressed patients, n = 54; sleep-disorder patients, n = 62).
Sweeper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no graffiti and no rubbish, because a street sweeper is using a machine to blow leaves into piles.
(2) According to the occupation registered on their licence, the 6630 drivers were distributed into three groups: (1) professional drivers (n = 1726), (2) non-professional drivers "more exposed" to exhaust gas and fumes (this group included occupations such as vehicle mechanic, policeman, road sweeper; n = 712), and (3) non-professional drivers "less exposed," composed of all other occupations (n = 4192).
(3) Wright was not used as a sweeper but rather as a spare man in a flat back four.
(4) In the Barbara Vine book, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy (1998), the death of a leading author, Gerard Candless, leads to the discovery that almost every detail of his life had been a fiction.
(5) Comparisons between indoor aspirator catches and outdoor mechanical sweeper collections enabled mosquito resting habits to be classified as: (1) endophilic (Anopheles culicifacies, An.
(6) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
(7) We present a case of occupation-related carcinoma of the scrotum (chimney sweeper's disease) in a black man.
(8) Thanks to Manuel Neuer the era of “sweeper-keepers”, boasting strong lines in fancy footwork, is upon us.
(9) He was credited with developing the "sweeper-keeper" style of play, when a keeper acts as an extra defender when needed.
(10) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(11) As a goalkeeper, he was ahead of his time, operating not only with athleticism and anticipation in the goal itself, but always ready to act as a kind of sweeper if his defence were breached, dashing well beyond his penalty area to kick the ball clear.
(12) This study intends to identify the occupational risks that the street sweepers are exposed by handling diary with the urban trash.
(13) Road sweepers, street cleaners all deserve a decent home, they certainly don’t deserve to be priced out of council property.
(14) Until we have a rainfall, or the city’s huge street sweeper mob arrive, you often find dust particles in your eyes and mouth.
(15) The ball came to the sweeper Augenthaler, who flipped an inviting angled pass over the top.
(16) "It is not men who immigrate but machine-minders, sweepers, diggers, cement mixers, cleaners, drillers, etc," writes Berger beneath a picture of two officials looking out over hundreds of workers at a recruitment centre in Istanbul.
(17) Other street cleaners are self-employed: street sweepers who move round after the dustmen work for tips from local residents, and bottle collectors make a living – just about – by selling on plastic bottles for recycling.
(18) The man glanced around uneasily, and finally approached a street sweeper in a blue jumpsuit.
(19) Measurements performed on 176 subjects, without isolating them from day-to-day work, showed 220Rn levels having a median of 0.74 Bq, with the group consisting of sweepers and helpers showing the highest average level (1.68 Bq).
(20) That means the extra defensive cover of a sweeper system and just one change from the side that started against Cameroon: Peter Beardsley for the injured John Barnes.