Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

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THESAURUS

sleeping

abeyant, apathetic, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, between the lines, breathless, called home, carrion, cataleptic, catatonic, comatose, covert, croaked, cryptic, dead, dead and gone, dead asleep, death-struck, deceased, deep asleep, defunct, delitescent, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dopey, dormant, dull, esoteric, exanimate, fallen, fast asleep, finished, flaked-out, flat, food for worms, foul, gone, gone to glory, gone west, goofing off, groggy, heavy, hibernating, hidden, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, incautious, inert, languid, languorous, late, late lamented, latent, launched into eternity, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, martyred, muffled, mystic, napping, no more, nodding, obfuscated, oblivious, obscured, occult, off-guard, out, passed on, passive, phlegmatic, possible, potential, pushing up daisies, released, reposing, resting easy, sainted, sedentary, slack, sluggish, slumbering, smitten with death, smoldering, sound asleep, stagnant, standing, static, still, stillborn, submerged, suspended, taken away, taken off, tame, torpid, unalert, unaroused, uncautious, unconscious, under the surface, underlying, unguarded, unmanifested, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, veiled, virtual, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions

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ROGET THESAURUS

sleeping

Quiescence

N quiescence, rest, stillness, quiescence, stagnation, stagnancy, fixity, immobility, catalepsy, indisturbance, quietism, quiet, tranquility, calm, repose, peace, dead calm, anticyclone, statue-like repose, silence, not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring, sleep, pause, lull, stand still, standing still, lock, dead lock, dead stop, dead stand, full stop, fix, embargo, resting place, gite, bivouac, home, pillow, haven, goal, quiescent, still, motionless, moveless, fixed, stationary, immotile, at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, stock, still, standing still, sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home, becalmed, stagnant, quiet, unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled, calm, restful, cataleptic, immovable, sleeping, silent, still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death, vegetative, vegetating, at a stand, tout court, at the halt, Int, stop!, stay!, avast!, halt!, hold hard!, whoa!, hold!, sabr karo!, requiescat in pace, Deus nobis haec otia fecit, the noonday quiet holds the hill.

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