sleeper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who sleeps.
    — I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
  2. A railroad tie. UK
    — The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.
  3. That which lies dormant, as a law.
    — Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judged confined in the execution […]
  4. A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
  5. A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
    — We are up against the pros; and pros who have been involved in this kind of activity for many years. […] The public apathy today is disturbing — few realize, Mr. Chairman, that there are sleepers in this country and we know that they are able to manipulate at will behind the scenes.
  6. A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
  7. The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
  8. A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
    — His skull earring had been replaced by a small gold sleeper. […] Fiona, who also had pierced ears, remarked on his sleeper. “Doesn’t Wilton allow pierced ears?” she asked. “No way!” said Leslie. “Rules about everything. But I wanted to keep my options open, as you might say. No one’s made me take it out yet. […]”
  9. A railway sleeping car.
    — We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
  10. A sleeper hold.
  11. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
    — A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.
  12. Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
  13. A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
  14. A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
    — Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
  15. An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police. slang
  16. A sedative. slang
    — At least a couple of weeks since I last slept, / Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.
  17. A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler. slang
  18. A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
动词 v.
  1. To mark a calf by cutting its ear. rare
    — I expect there ain't a trick to maverickin' and sleeperin' and changin' a brand he don't know.

词形变化

sleepers plural sleepers present,singular,third-person sleepering participle,present sleepered participle,past sleepered past sleepers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bedside sleeper car-sleeper cold sleeper cosleeper dark sleeper daysleeper fat sleeper hot sleeper insleeper nonsleeper railway sleeper rough sleeper short sleeper short-sleeper sleeper account sleeper agent sleeper berth sleeper build sleeper bus sleeper cab sleeper cell sleeper effect sleeperette sleeper pick sleeper shark sleepershark sleeper ship sofa sleeper sofa-sleeper spinycheek sleeper spiny-cheek sleeper super-sleeper resleeper sleeperless
并列词
sleepsack

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sleper, equivalent to sleep + -er.
词源 2
Compare Norwegian sleip (“a sleeper (a timber); as adjective, slippery, smooth”). See slape.
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