Noun | 1. | sleep - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber" Synonyms: slumber |
2. | sleep - a torpid state resembling sleep | |
3. | ![]() Synonyms: nap | |
4. | sleep - euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" | |
Verb | 1. | sleep - be asleep Antonyms: wake - be awake, be alert, be there |
2. | sleep - be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people" |
1. | (operating system, multitasking) | sleep - (Or "block") When a
process on a multitasking system asks the scheduler to
deactivate it until some given external event (e.g. an
interrupt or a specified time delay) occurs. The alternative is to poll or "busy wait" for the event but this uses processing power. Also used in the phrase "sleep on" (or "block on") some external event, meaning to wait for it. E.g. the Unix command of the same name which pauses the current process for a given number of seconds. | |
2. | (hardware) | sleep - To go into partial deactivation to save power. |