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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sleep like a Top When peg-tops and humming-tops are at the acme of their gyration they become so steady and quiet that they do not seem to move. In this state they are said to sleep. Soon they begin to totter, and the tipsy movement increases till they fall. The French say, Dormir comme un sabot, and Mon sabot dort. (See Similes .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLEEP LIKE A TOP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fle rëndë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mint a mormota (to sleep like a log, to sleep like a top), mint a bunda (to sleep like a log, to sleep like a pig, to sleep like a top), mint (as, as numerous as the sands on the sea-shore, double as long as, have no concern but, his one thought is, how, like, nor, qua, same as, so much as, such as, than, to be by the way of being sg, to be no better than, to be not so much a writer as a scholar, to be not such a fool as people make out, to earn one's keep, to get on like a house on fire, to lead a dog's life, to live under warmer skies than, to sleep like a log, to sleep like a top), alszik mint a bunda (to sleep like a top), alszik (be asleep, kip, sleep, to be sacked out, to doss, to hibernate, to kip, to lie dormant, to roost, to sleep like a log, to sleep like a pig, to sleep like a top), a tej (to sleep like a log, to sleep like a top). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepslay ikelay aay optay dormi cã un butuc, dormi buştean (sleep like a log). (various references) deliksiz uyumak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-k-l-l-o-p-p-s-t" | |
-3 letters: papillotes. | |
-4 letters: appellees, oppilates, palletise, papillose, papillote, pelletise, petallike, platelike, popliteal, slatelike, sleeplike, soleplate. | |
-5 letters: appellee, apposite, epitopes, estoppel, keitloas, leakiest, lealties, loppiest, oppilate, palliest, pastille, peakiest, petioles, poetlike, popelike, saltlike, seallike, skeletal, soaplike, spikelet, spoliate, steplike, tapelike. | |
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