sleep, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

sleep (sleeps plural & 3rd person present) (sleeping present participle) (slept past tense & past participle )

1 n-uncount Sleep is the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think.
They were exhausted from lack of sleep...

2 verb When you sleep, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.
During the car journey, the baby slept... V

3 n-count A sleep is a period of sleeping.
I think he may be ready for a sleep soon.

4 verb If a building or room sleeps a particular number of people, it has beds for that number of people.
The villa sleeps 10 and costs £530 per person for two weeks. V amount

5
→ sleeping

6 If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.
♦ get to sleep phrase
I can't get to sleep with all that singing.

7 If you say that you didn't lose any sleep over something, you mean that you did not worry about it at all.
♦ lose sleep phrase
I didn't lose too much sleep over that investigation.

8 If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will sleep on it, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.
♦ sleep on it phrase

9 If a sick or injured animal is put to sleep, it is killed by a vet in a way that does not cause it pain.
♦ put sth to sleep phrase (=put down)
I'm going take the dog down to the vet's and have her put to sleep.

10
→ to sleep rough
→ rough sleep around phrasal verb If you say that someone sleeps around, you disapprove of them because they have sex with a lot of different people.
INFORMAL, disapproval I don't sleep around. V P