English-French translations for sleep

  • dormir
    Ni comment ils pourront dormir sur leurs deux oreilles. I do not know how they will sleep at night. Les cerises étant mes fruits préférés, je vais pouvoir dormir tranquille. Cherries are my favourite fruit also, so I can sleep more easily. M. Solana trouve-t-il encore le temps de dormir, Monsieur le Président ? One wonders whether he gets any time to sleep, Mr President.
  • sommeil
    Avez-vous le sommeil tranquille, Mesdames et Messieurs? Can you sleep soundly at night, ladies and gentlemen? C’est la raison pour laquelle j’ai dit que le sommeil de la raison engendrait des monstres. This is why I said that the sleep of reason produces monsters. En Europe, plus de dix millions de citoyens présentent des troubles du sommeil. More than ten million citizens in Europe have sleeping disorders.
  • chassie
  • coucher
    Sur 6 milliards d'êtres humains, la moitié vit avec moins de deux dollars par jour et 800 millions vont se coucher chaque soir le ventre vide. Of 6 billion human beings, half are living on less than EUR 2 per day and 800 million are going to sleep hungry every night. Tout le monde devrait penser à ça le soir avant d'aller se coucher, et je demande à chacun d'entre vous de le faire ce soir. Demandez-vous "ai-je coûté 6 400 euros"? Everyone should think about this at night before going to sleep, and I would call on everyone to do so tonight: to ask him or herself, 'have I cost EUR 6 400?'

Definition of sleep

  • To rest in a state of reduced consciousness
  • To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion
  • To cause to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion
  • To accommodate in beds
  • To be slumbering in (a state
  • To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly
  • To be dead; to lie in the grave
  • To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant
  • To wait for a period of time without performing any action
  • To place into a state of hibernation
  • The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm
  • An act or instance of sleeping
  • A night
  • Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge 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
  • The hibernation of animals

Examples

  • You should sleep 8 hours a day
  • When a top is sleeping, it is spinning but not precessing.
  • This caravan can sleep four people comfortably
  • to sleep a dreamless sleep
  • a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
  • After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again
  • Sleep your way to good health.
  • He hoped to sleep his troubles away.
  • 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
  • There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
  • Wipe the sleep from your eyes

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