Definition of sleeper in English:

sleeper

noun ˈsliːpəˈslipər

1A person or animal who is asleep or who sleeps in a specified way.
he was a light sleeper, for long periods an insomniac
Example sentencesExamples
- I've always been a light sleeper, but years of travel mean I can pretty much fall asleep anywhere.
- A light sleeper at all times, Armand had also heard the arrival.
- I know you've always wanted a whole bunch of kids, and I know whoever your wife is has to be a deep sleeper because you snore a lot more and louder than you think!
- Furthermore, the huge quantity of sleeping pills, sedatives and anti-depressants doled out each year to poor sleepers are a strain on the health budget.
- He was a lighter sleeper when more people were around, apparently, and woke up while I was walking by.
- A light sleeper, Debbie required frequent attention from her mother, who was also nursing her.
- Moreover, at 6 months, the mothers of back sleepers reported fewer instances in which their infants had trouble sleeping than did the mothers of stomach sleepers.
- The researchers found cognitive behavioral therapy worked best to treat insomnia, producing the largest number of normal sleepers after treatment.
- Homeowners are often light sleepers and armed.
- To prepare for any more rough sleepers we need extra sleeping bags and flasks.
- She is a light sleeper and sleeping next to me does deprive her of what little sleep she does get.
- Nathan had always been the lightest sleeper he had ever known.
- I'm normally a light sleeper, so it was a surprise that the husband was the first to notice this.
- If your child is generally a good sleeper and begins waking in the night, it's a good idea to check there isn't a medical reason.
- He came through the front door and was surprised that she still didn't come to, since she was a light sleeper.
- As a light sleeper, I can only struggle now to find better ear-plugs, or hope to sleep with my window forever open and get used to the outside noises as well.
- Subjects who rated themselves as habitually good sleepers were largely unaffected by the valerian extract.
- I'm quite a light sleeper, so even my answering machine taking a message usually wakes me.
- She didn't know whether he was a light or heavy sleeper, but apparently, he was a light sleeper.
- I'm usually a light sleeper in unfamiliar situations, so it's not surprising that I would be a little jumpy.
2A train carrying sleeping cars.
we were waiting for the Inverness–London sleeper
as modifier a sleeper train
Example sentencesExamples
- Passengers were stranded aboard the train for more than three hours while a diesel engine was brought to pull the sleeper into Preston Station.
- My experience of sleeper trains spans the globe from Finland to Australia.
- There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
- 10 Teams traveled solely by train - for instance in sleepers overnight from New York to Chicago.
- It proved a great adventure and the kids loved the sleeper train.
- The sleeper train to Hue sounded not too savoury, however.
- Eleven passengers died when a mystery blaze burned out a carriage of an overnight sleeper train today.
- He caught a sleeper train from Cairo to Aden in The Yemen.
- I was travelling on the sleeper to Inverness when a man in the compartment pointed to the luggage rack. ‘And what have you got in there?’
- Not long ago I stepped off the overnight sleeper on to the platform at Nice to be revived by a delicious fragrance: the platform was awash with wallflowers.
- The £465 per person price includes seven nights' hotel accommodation, one night on a sleeper train, breakfast each day and the services of an experienced guide.
- I was travelling on a sleeper train from Istanbul to Belgrade where my passport was stolen after crossing the Bulgarian border.
- The overnight sleeper train from Hanoi to Hué starts off as a giggle, and ends up as an ordeal.
- I decided on the overnight sleeper train from Bangkok, which meant I could sleep at night and not waste one of my precious days travelling.
- A special sleeper train service had been put on; it pulled into York station at 3.32 am, and deposited excited royalists at King's Cross at 7.39 am.
- We have all been dreading our second overnight sleeper train.
1. 2.1 A sleeping car, or a berth in one.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are three sleepers on this train, as well as the usual Pacific Parlour, Dining, and Sightseer cars.
  Also acquired were five ex U.S.Army troop box car style sleepers only built in 1944 for World War II use, these were converted into baggage cars.
  I immediately noticed that this car was not of the caliber of our original sleeper car.
  I left Madrid 20 minutes later in a sleeper car, bound for Lisbon.
  Generally, the sleeper carriages were interspersed with lounge and dining cars - so there was a lot of convivialising.
  Then the 15 leaving were told to go down the steps to the train, coach to the left, sleepers to the right.
  Most of the troop trains of the Korean era used standard heavyweight sleepers, which were by then surplus to the Pullman pool as lightweight equipment displaced them.
  Most private cars can accommodate more passengers during the day than overnight, so consider coupling one to a sleeper car for larger groups or to spread the cost among more people.
  The consist was essentially the same except that this train had just one sleeper whereas our southbound had two.
  I could see that today's consist included three locomotives, two sleepers, four coaches, a diner, a lounge car, and a baggage car.
  Behind the locomotive is a reefer (refrigerator car) to supply ice for drinking water in the sleepers.
  Since then the company has found another 35 carriages, a mixture of restaurant cars, sleepers and Pullmans, all of which have been beautifully restored at workshops in England, Belgium and Germany.
  Alas, they had made reservations in the sleeper car for the trip, and I just in a seat, so I was separated from them during the trip.
  It had 2 engines, 3 coaches, lounge car, dining car, 2 sleepers and 6 freight cars.
  After dinner, there followed a restless night in the four-berth sleeper listening to the train wheels squealing and screeching.
  In a sleeper car, several men pass along the hall.
  At the same time, the elimination of the sleeper berths would mean that a daylight passenger configuration of 21 to 24 seats could be planned.
  He was there at about 20 minutes before departure and took another couple and us to the sleeper cars.
  The sleepers used on the Canadian are unique to this train, in that each has three types of accommodations and all are alike.
  There are seventeen cars: two engines, dorm, two sleepers, diner, lounge, three coaches, and seven mail cars.
  They bought the trains (including sleeper stock) and then realised that this was stupid - flying was quicker and cheaper.
2. 2.2informal A sleeping pill.
  he gave me tranquillizers in addition to the sleepers I was already on
  Example sentencesExamples
  I took the sleeper pill last night and I slept a dreamless sleep.
  Also not uncommon was psychological instability resulting from the then common practice of "sleeper" medication.
3. 2.3usually sleepersNorth American A sleepsuit for a baby or small child.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now I want to give you a description, I know we put the picture up, but the little boy has black hair, brown eyes, and he was last seen - there he is right there - wearing a red sleeper.
  Knitted fabrics, such as those used in T-shirts, sweatshirts, infant sleepers and sportswear, are examples of unstable fabrics.
  So we brought her home in a little cute sleeper with a matching hat.
  To take your baby home put baby in a vest and thick sleepsuit if it's cold.
  Take one pair of child's sleepers and soak it in warm water.
4. 2.4North American A sofa or chair that converts into a bed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both kinds come in models that can fit either regular sofas or sleepers, as well as easy chairs.
  A sleeper sofa is the solution chosen by most people in studios, but this limits your options in terms of design, and unmaking and re-making the bed every day can be enough to wear you out.
  Once you decide on the dual purpose of the room, find yourself a nice sleeper sofa.
  Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners.
  The intimate lighting and varnished black sleepers sit easily with a heart-warming pot bellied stove which is an excellent focal point.
  Do I have to get a sleeper sofa, or does anyone still make Murphy beds?
  Then she set up the couch into a double sleeper, made it all up, and when she was finished, Relena had already came out from the bathroom in her night clothes.
  Most of the original furnishings had been destroyed in our first mission, and the room was now outfitted to accommodate four sleepers, with some small amount of storage.
  That night Daniel didn't sleep with me; he slept on the sleeper sofa.
  A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed.
3A film, book, play, etc. that eventually achieves unexpected success after initially attracting very little attention.
this low-budget, black-and-white American sleeper concerns two brothers
as modifier it became one of the sleeper hits of the year
Example sentencesExamples
- This dark red wine is always a sleeper for restaurants that serve char-grilled steaks.
- If it is marketed the right way it might become a sleeper hit, though it isn't quite good enough to warrant anything like blockbuster status.
- It is better than most people might think, but not good enough to be a sleeper hit.
- Getting big weeks from cheap players not only will boost your points total but will increase your team's bottom line as the dollar values for those sleepers rise.
- People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
- This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film.
- If these guys get more playing time in the second half, they could be the sleepers who will vault your team to a title.
- Avoiding a quiet sleeper of a film like this merely deprives you of an exciting movie experience.
- Is he discovering Quebec sovereignty to be a surprise sleeper hit with the electorate of his riding?
- So if you have a sleeper, don't expect to hit nine figures… make sure you are enormously profitable with less.
- It is a documentary on a sort of wheelchair rugby and it is the sleeper hit of the moment.
- Yet sometimes when something is missed out on, it can play the role of that special something, the sleeper hit, that only you know about, which is a great thing to have.
- The record became a sleeper hit and in 2003, it spawned a second and third volume, featuring Langford's own artwork.
- The film was a sleeper hit and even spawned a low-budget sequel.
- Virtually unheralded, this relatively low-budget affair is a genuine sleeper - a surprise hit that pays off better than any number of more costly affairs.
- For our purposes, we'll consider a sleeper to be any player whose perceived value now is significantly lower than his potential value during this season.
- DESPITE THEIR sleeper success, the band are still managing to keep their feet on the ground.
- It's this interesting concept that made the original Kohan franchise a sleeper hit.
- This film - and this DVD release - therefore is a sleeper waiting to be discovered.
- Just as the initial comic book issue became a sleeper success, so too has the silver screen Spider-Man.
- Any movie with those much marketing dollars is going to attract more viewers than a little tiny movie that might be hoping for a great sleeper hit thanks to a couple good reviews.
1. 3.1 An antique whose true value goes unrecognized for some time.
  photographed after it proved to be a sleeper, this Regency table took £8,600 instead of £1,500 as anticipated
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although we were unable to make out a signature, there is a possibility this antique painting could be a genuine sleeper and a real investment for a lucky buyer.
  Dealers and collectors love to find a sleeper, and one such is illustrated here.
2. 3.2 A secret agent who remains inactive for a long period while establishing a secure position.
  a KGB plot to uncover his sleepers
  Example sentencesExamples
  A staple of the Cold War espionage novels that used to populate best-seller lists was the sleeper agent.
  The enemy's people are already in place in this country, sleeper agents waiting for the command to strike.
  The sleeper agents moved toward parliament as the Guru had instructed them.
  The enemy within is still there, but today it is not communist sleepers that are the concern but the corrosive influence of big business.
  All Ashcroft ever did was look into if there were any terror sleeper cells.
  The network implants a large number of sleeper agents, free of past suspicious activity, giving the authorities no reason to keep an eye on them until only after they've received their cue to strike.
  Since Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, took the helm in the Kremlin, Russian intelligence networks in central and western Europe have been rebuilt and secret service sleepers activated.
  I've been told many sleeper agents use it regularly.
  Jason was assigned as a guard for the queen while he was a sleeper agent.
  Additionally, years of Soviet occupation left a host of sleeper agents experienced with the region, who still have files on many citizens.
  Now that we have settled on a definition, let's look at how to uncover these sleepers.
  He was inserted as a sleeper agent five years ago.
  He failed, but within a year he had infiltrated America with new teams of sleeper agents ready for one more big push.
  The Detroit case ended last summer with the convictions, hailed by the Bush administration, of three men who were accused of operating a sleeper terror cell that possessed plans for attacks around the world.
  Thousands of their agents and sleepers existed throughout South Vietnam's Government, armed forces, and security/intelligence organizations.
4British A ring or post worn in a pierced ear to keep the hole from closing.
Example sentencesExamples
- He wore a gold sleeper in his left ear, a well-worn, waist-length brown leather jacket, dark blue jeans, a black belt and a gold bracelet.
- The man was also wearing a 9ct gold necklace and a gold sleeper earring in his left ear.
- There was a brief twinge of pain as she squeezed a sleeper through the needle hole.
- The window-dresser pushed her hair back from her face and behind her dainty ears, each pierced with rows of silver sleepers.
- She clicks on the customer list, pulls up the database of 13,000 stock items, checks availability and starts adding in quantities for rings, studs and sleepers.
5British A wooden or concrete beam laid transversely under railway track to support it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Annually the plant will produce 160 000 cement sleepers mostly for export.
- Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road.
- Thirty point ends and components in another 47 will be renewed, 9,000 sleepers will be replaced and 9,000 metres of track reballasted.
- The concrete is poured between the sleepers and over and between the reinforcement.
- The rail, the fastening, the sleeper and ballast have to spread the 100-tonne weight of a heavy locomotive throughout the system.
- The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fish-plates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line.
- Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train.
- Black plastic between the sleepers and the soil will stop any leeching into the soil.
- Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad.
- We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete.
- In this case, existing landscape determined the form of the track, not the other way around, and great attention was paid to the design of rails, sleepers and trains to reduce noise.
- You can easily tell which wooden sleepers have been replaced with the concrete ones.
- In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station.
- The rails and sleepers were lifted and the track-bed was sold or given to local farmers.
- I chose reclaimed railway sleepers to contain raised beds around the garden.
- Another fundraiser is the sale of rail sleepers.
- Bolts attaching rails to sleepers (US = ties) are marked with a vertical stripe of paint.
- By 1863 some three million tons of rails, sleepers and locomotives had been shipped to India from Britain in around three and a half thousand ships.
- The news comes just a year after 50 workers were let go from the rail sleeper plant in Knockmay prior to Christmas 2003 in a move that stunned workers.
- The need still remains for a survey of permanent way - rails, sleepers and ballast - with a somewhat fuller historical background than the one provided here.
- Trains, protected by railway sleepers and metal plates, were used - also in the Franco-Prussian war when four were fitted out to defend Paris during the siege.
- Last week, 80 rivets were also removed from sleepers on a railroad located between the Ban Pa Rai and Ban Kong Sai Railway Stations in Muang District of Pattani.
- A saw mill built in the early years produced 5,000 railway sleepers and poles for fencing.
- These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails.
- Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
- Rails were welded to sleepers in an operation aimed at providing a smoother, quieter and more reliable journey.
6A stocky fish with mottled coloration which occurs widely in warm seas and fresh water.
Dormitator and other genera, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae): many species. See also cockabully
Example sentencesExamples
- There are some predatory sleeper gobies that get much bigger.
- Most fish species cannot tolerate such fluctuations, but some gobies and sleepers have adapted physiologically in ways that have enabled them to thrive.
- I have a golden head sleeper and he is extremely territorial of his burrow.
- Yet most gobies and many sleepers in the world are marine.
- They are commonly known as sleepers, or gudgeons in Australia and New Guinea, and in New Zealand they are called bullies.
- A heavy, deep sleeper, she is.
- I'm kind of glad Kyle was such a sound sleeper.
- Mason has shown signs of the talent that has many calling him this year's rookie sleeper.

Rhymes

Arequipa, beeper, bleeper, creeper, Dnieper, keeper, leaper, peeper, reaper, sweeper, weeper

Definition of sleeper in US English:

sleeper

nounˈslipərˈslēpər

1with adjective A person or animal who is asleep or who sleeps in a specified way.
he was a light sleeper, for long periods an insomniac
Example sentencesExamples
- He came through the front door and was surprised that she still didn't come to, since she was a light sleeper.
- Nathan had always been the lightest sleeper he had ever known.
- Homeowners are often light sleepers and armed.
- I know you've always wanted a whole bunch of kids, and I know whoever your wife is has to be a deep sleeper because you snore a lot more and louder than you think!
- If your child is generally a good sleeper and begins waking in the night, it's a good idea to check there isn't a medical reason.
- To prepare for any more rough sleepers we need extra sleeping bags and flasks.
- He was a lighter sleeper when more people were around, apparently, and woke up while I was walking by.
- I'm usually a light sleeper in unfamiliar situations, so it's not surprising that I would be a little jumpy.
- Furthermore, the huge quantity of sleeping pills, sedatives and anti-depressants doled out each year to poor sleepers are a strain on the health budget.
- She didn't know whether he was a light or heavy sleeper, but apparently, he was a light sleeper.
- As a light sleeper, I can only struggle now to find better ear-plugs, or hope to sleep with my window forever open and get used to the outside noises as well.
- I'm quite a light sleeper, so even my answering machine taking a message usually wakes me.
- Moreover, at 6 months, the mothers of back sleepers reported fewer instances in which their infants had trouble sleeping than did the mothers of stomach sleepers.
- I'm normally a light sleeper, so it was a surprise that the husband was the first to notice this.
- I've always been a light sleeper, but years of travel mean I can pretty much fall asleep anywhere.
- She is a light sleeper and sleeping next to me does deprive her of what little sleep she does get.
- A light sleeper at all times, Armand had also heard the arrival.
- Subjects who rated themselves as habitually good sleepers were largely unaffected by the valerian extract.
- The researchers found cognitive behavioral therapy worked best to treat insomnia, producing the largest number of normal sleepers after treatment.
- A light sleeper, Debbie required frequent attention from her mother, who was also nursing her.
2A train carrying sleeping cars.
Example sentencesExamples
- A special sleeper train service had been put on; it pulled into York station at 3.32 am, and deposited excited royalists at King's Cross at 7.39 am.
- There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up.
- I was travelling on the sleeper to Inverness when a man in the compartment pointed to the luggage rack. ‘And what have you got in there?’
- I decided on the overnight sleeper train from Bangkok, which meant I could sleep at night and not waste one of my precious days travelling.
- Not long ago I stepped off the overnight sleeper on to the platform at Nice to be revived by a delicious fragrance: the platform was awash with wallflowers.
- The £465 per person price includes seven nights' hotel accommodation, one night on a sleeper train, breakfast each day and the services of an experienced guide.
- The sleeper train to Hue sounded not too savoury, however.
- It proved a great adventure and the kids loved the sleeper train.
- Passengers were stranded aboard the train for more than three hours while a diesel engine was brought to pull the sleeper into Preston Station.
- The overnight sleeper train from Hanoi to Hué starts off as a giggle, and ends up as an ordeal.
- We have all been dreading our second overnight sleeper train.
- I was travelling on a sleeper train from Istanbul to Belgrade where my passport was stolen after crossing the Bulgarian border.
- Eleven passengers died when a mystery blaze burned out a carriage of an overnight sleeper train today.
- My experience of sleeper trains spans the globe from Finland to Australia.
- He caught a sleeper train from Cairo to Aden in The Yemen.
- 10 Teams traveled solely by train - for instance in sleepers overnight from New York to Chicago.
1. 2.1 A sleeping car, or a berth in one.
  Example sentencesExamples
  I could see that today's consist included three locomotives, two sleepers, four coaches, a diner, a lounge car, and a baggage car.
  Then the 15 leaving were told to go down the steps to the train, coach to the left, sleepers to the right.
  After dinner, there followed a restless night in the four-berth sleeper listening to the train wheels squealing and screeching.
  The sleepers used on the Canadian are unique to this train, in that each has three types of accommodations and all are alike.
  Also acquired were five ex U.S.Army troop box car style sleepers only built in 1944 for World War II use, these were converted into baggage cars.
  I left Madrid 20 minutes later in a sleeper car, bound for Lisbon.
  I immediately noticed that this car was not of the caliber of our original sleeper car.
  The consist was essentially the same except that this train had just one sleeper whereas our southbound had two.
  They bought the trains (including sleeper stock) and then realised that this was stupid - flying was quicker and cheaper.
  Behind the locomotive is a reefer (refrigerator car) to supply ice for drinking water in the sleepers.
  Most of the troop trains of the Korean era used standard heavyweight sleepers, which were by then surplus to the Pullman pool as lightweight equipment displaced them.
  There are three sleepers on this train, as well as the usual Pacific Parlour, Dining, and Sightseer cars.
  Since then the company has found another 35 carriages, a mixture of restaurant cars, sleepers and Pullmans, all of which have been beautifully restored at workshops in England, Belgium and Germany.
  He was there at about 20 minutes before departure and took another couple and us to the sleeper cars.
  In a sleeper car, several men pass along the hall.
  Generally, the sleeper carriages were interspersed with lounge and dining cars - so there was a lot of convivialising.
  Alas, they had made reservations in the sleeper car for the trip, and I just in a seat, so I was separated from them during the trip.
  At the same time, the elimination of the sleeper berths would mean that a daylight passenger configuration of 21 to 24 seats could be planned.
  There are seventeen cars: two engines, dorm, two sleepers, diner, lounge, three coaches, and seven mail cars.
  It had 2 engines, 3 coaches, lounge car, dining car, 2 sleepers and 6 freight cars.
  Most private cars can accommodate more passengers during the day than overnight, so consider coupling one to a sleeper car for larger groups or to spread the cost among more people.
2. 2.2often sleepersNorth American One-piece coverall pajamas for a baby or small child.
  Example sentencesExamples
  So we brought her home in a little cute sleeper with a matching hat.
  To take your baby home put baby in a vest and thick sleepsuit if it's cold.
  Now I want to give you a description, I know we put the picture up, but the little boy has black hair, brown eyes, and he was last seen - there he is right there - wearing a red sleeper.
  Knitted fabrics, such as those used in T-shirts, sweatshirts, infant sleepers and sportswear, are examples of unstable fabrics.
  Take one pair of child's sleepers and soak it in warm water.
3. 2.3North American A sofa or chair that converts into a bed.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then she set up the couch into a double sleeper, made it all up, and when she was finished, Relena had already came out from the bathroom in her night clothes.
  Most of the original furnishings had been destroyed in our first mission, and the room was now outfitted to accommodate four sleepers, with some small amount of storage.
  That night Daniel didn't sleep with me; he slept on the sleeper sofa.
  A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed.
  The intimate lighting and varnished black sleepers sit easily with a heart-warming pot bellied stove which is an excellent focal point.
  A sleeper sofa is the solution chosen by most people in studios, but this limits your options in terms of design, and unmaking and re-making the bed every day can be enough to wear you out.
  Both kinds come in models that can fit either regular sofas or sleepers, as well as easy chairs.
  Once you decide on the dual purpose of the room, find yourself a nice sleeper sofa.
  Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners.
  Do I have to get a sleeper sofa, or does anyone still make Murphy beds?
3A movie, book, play, etc., that achieves sudden unexpected success after initially attracting little attention, typically one that proves popular without much promotion or expenditure.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet sometimes when something is missed out on, it can play the role of that special something, the sleeper hit, that only you know about, which is a great thing to have.
- This dark red wine is always a sleeper for restaurants that serve char-grilled steaks.
- It's this interesting concept that made the original Kohan franchise a sleeper hit.
- DESPITE THEIR sleeper success, the band are still managing to keep their feet on the ground.
- Any movie with those much marketing dollars is going to attract more viewers than a little tiny movie that might be hoping for a great sleeper hit thanks to a couple good reviews.
- This film - and this DVD release - therefore is a sleeper waiting to be discovered.
- Virtually unheralded, this relatively low-budget affair is a genuine sleeper - a surprise hit that pays off better than any number of more costly affairs.
- The record became a sleeper hit and in 2003, it spawned a second and third volume, featuring Langford's own artwork.
- People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded.
- If these guys get more playing time in the second half, they could be the sleepers who will vault your team to a title.
- It is a documentary on a sort of wheelchair rugby and it is the sleeper hit of the moment.
- Avoiding a quiet sleeper of a film like this merely deprives you of an exciting movie experience.
- It is better than most people might think, but not good enough to be a sleeper hit.
- This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film.
- Just as the initial comic book issue became a sleeper success, so too has the silver screen Spider-Man.
- So if you have a sleeper, don't expect to hit nine figures… make sure you are enormously profitable with less.
- For our purposes, we'll consider a sleeper to be any player whose perceived value now is significantly lower than his potential value during this season.
- The film was a sleeper hit and even spawned a low-budget sequel.
- Is he discovering Quebec sovereignty to be a surprise sleeper hit with the electorate of his riding?
- Getting big weeks from cheap players not only will boost your points total but will increase your team's bottom line as the dollar values for those sleepers rise.
- If it is marketed the right way it might become a sleeper hit, though it isn't quite good enough to warrant anything like blockbuster status.
1. 3.1 An antique whose true value goes unrecognized for some time.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dealers and collectors love to find a sleeper, and one such is illustrated here.
  Although we were unable to make out a signature, there is a possibility this antique painting could be a genuine sleeper and a real investment for a lucky buyer.
2. 3.2 A secret agent who remains inactive for a long period while establishing a secure position.
  Example sentencesExamples
  All Ashcroft ever did was look into if there were any terror sleeper cells.
  Additionally, years of Soviet occupation left a host of sleeper agents experienced with the region, who still have files on many citizens.
  He was inserted as a sleeper agent five years ago.
  Now that we have settled on a definition, let's look at how to uncover these sleepers.
  He failed, but within a year he had infiltrated America with new teams of sleeper agents ready for one more big push.
  The Detroit case ended last summer with the convictions, hailed by the Bush administration, of three men who were accused of operating a sleeper terror cell that possessed plans for attacks around the world.
  Since Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, took the helm in the Kremlin, Russian intelligence networks in central and western Europe have been rebuilt and secret service sleepers activated.
  Jason was assigned as a guard for the queen while he was a sleeper agent.
  The sleeper agents moved toward parliament as the Guru had instructed them.
  The enemy's people are already in place in this country, sleeper agents waiting for the command to strike.
  I've been told many sleeper agents use it regularly.
  The enemy within is still there, but today it is not communist sleepers that are the concern but the corrosive influence of big business.
  The network implants a large number of sleeper agents, free of past suspicious activity, giving the authorities no reason to keep an eye on them until only after they've received their cue to strike.
  Thousands of their agents and sleepers existed throughout South Vietnam's Government, armed forces, and security/intelligence organizations.
  A staple of the Cold War espionage novels that used to populate best-seller lists was the sleeper agent.
4British A railroad tie.
Example sentencesExamples
- The concrete is poured between the sleepers and over and between the reinforcement.
- You can easily tell which wooden sleepers have been replaced with the concrete ones.
- Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train.
- In this case, existing landscape determined the form of the track, not the other way around, and great attention was paid to the design of rails, sleepers and trains to reduce noise.
- The news comes just a year after 50 workers were let go from the rail sleeper plant in Knockmay prior to Christmas 2003 in a move that stunned workers.
- Bolts attaching rails to sleepers (US = ties) are marked with a vertical stripe of paint.
- The rail, the fastening, the sleeper and ballast have to spread the 100-tonne weight of a heavy locomotive throughout the system.
- These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails.
- Another fundraiser is the sale of rail sleepers.
- Trains, protected by railway sleepers and metal plates, were used - also in the Franco-Prussian war when four were fitted out to defend Paris during the siege.
- I chose reclaimed railway sleepers to contain raised beds around the garden.
- In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station.
- Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad.
- Thirty point ends and components in another 47 will be renewed, 9,000 sleepers will be replaced and 9,000 metres of track reballasted.
- The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fish-plates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line.
- Black plastic between the sleepers and the soil will stop any leeching into the soil.
- The rails and sleepers were lifted and the track-bed was sold or given to local farmers.
- We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete.
- Last week, 80 rivets were also removed from sleepers on a railroad located between the Ban Pa Rai and Ban Kong Sai Railway Stations in Muang District of Pattani.
- By 1863 some three million tons of rails, sleepers and locomotives had been shipped to India from Britain in around three and a half thousand ships.
- Rails were welded to sleepers in an operation aimed at providing a smoother, quieter and more reliable journey.
- A saw mill built in the early years produced 5,000 railway sleepers and poles for fencing.
- Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road.
- Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
- Annually the plant will produce 160 000 cement sleepers mostly for export.
- The need still remains for a survey of permanent way - rails, sleepers and ballast - with a somewhat fuller historical background than the one provided here.
5A stocky fish with mottled coloration which occurs widely in warm seas and fresh water.
Dormitator and other genera, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae): many species
Example sentencesExamples
- A heavy, deep sleeper, she is.
- Most fish species cannot tolerate such fluctuations, but some gobies and sleepers have adapted physiologically in ways that have enabled them to thrive.
- There are some predatory sleeper gobies that get much bigger.
- They are commonly known as sleepers, or gudgeons in Australia and New Guinea, and in New Zealand they are called bullies.
- I'm kind of glad Kyle was such a sound sleeper.
- Mason has shown signs of the talent that has many calling him this year's rookie sleeper.
- Yet most gobies and many sleepers in the world are marine.
- I have a golden head sleeper and he is extremely territorial of his burrow.

单词	sleeper
释义	Definition of sleeper in English: sleeper noun ˈsliːpəˈslipər 1A person or animal who is asleep or who sleeps in a specified way. he was a light sleeper, for long periods an insomniac Example sentencesExamples I've always been a light sleeper, but years of travel mean I can pretty much fall asleep anywhere. A light sleeper at all times, Armand had also heard the arrival. I know you've always wanted a whole bunch of kids, and I know whoever your wife is has to be a deep sleeper because you snore a lot more and louder than you think! Furthermore, the huge quantity of sleeping pills, sedatives and anti-depressants doled out each year to poor sleepers are a strain on the health budget. He was a lighter sleeper when more people were around, apparently, and woke up while I was walking by. A light sleeper, Debbie required frequent attention from her mother, who was also nursing her. Moreover, at 6 months, the mothers of back sleepers reported fewer instances in which their infants had trouble sleeping than did the mothers of stomach sleepers. The researchers found cognitive behavioral therapy worked best to treat insomnia, producing the largest number of normal sleepers after treatment. Homeowners are often light sleepers and armed. To prepare for any more rough sleepers we need extra sleeping bags and flasks. She is a light sleeper and sleeping next to me does deprive her of what little sleep she does get. Nathan had always been the lightest sleeper he had ever known. I'm normally a light sleeper, so it was a surprise that the husband was the first to notice this. If your child is generally a good sleeper and begins waking in the night, it's a good idea to check there isn't a medical reason. He came through the front door and was surprised that she still didn't come to, since she was a light sleeper. As a light sleeper, I can only struggle now to find better ear-plugs, or hope to sleep with my window forever open and get used to the outside noises as well. Subjects who rated themselves as habitually good sleepers were largely unaffected by the valerian extract. I'm quite a light sleeper, so even my answering machine taking a message usually wakes me. She didn't know whether he was a light or heavy sleeper, but apparently, he was a light sleeper. I'm usually a light sleeper in unfamiliar situations, so it's not surprising that I would be a little jumpy. 2A train carrying sleeping cars. we were waiting for the Inverness–London sleeper as modifier a sleeper train Example sentencesExamples Passengers were stranded aboard the train for more than three hours while a diesel engine was brought to pull the sleeper into Preston Station. My experience of sleeper trains spans the globe from Finland to Australia. There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up. 10 Teams traveled solely by train - for instance in sleepers overnight from New York to Chicago. It proved a great adventure and the kids loved the sleeper train. The sleeper train to Hue sounded not too savoury, however. Eleven passengers died when a mystery blaze burned out a carriage of an overnight sleeper train today. He caught a sleeper train from Cairo to Aden in The Yemen. I was travelling on the sleeper to Inverness when a man in the compartment pointed to the luggage rack. ‘And what have you got in there?’ Not long ago I stepped off the overnight sleeper on to the platform at Nice to be revived by a delicious fragrance: the platform was awash with wallflowers. The £465 per person price includes seven nights' hotel accommodation, one night on a sleeper train, breakfast each day and the services of an experienced guide. I was travelling on a sleeper train from Istanbul to Belgrade where my passport was stolen after crossing the Bulgarian border. The overnight sleeper train from Hanoi to Hué starts off as a giggle, and ends up as an ordeal. I decided on the overnight sleeper train from Bangkok, which meant I could sleep at night and not waste one of my precious days travelling. A special sleeper train service had been put on; it pulled into York station at 3.32 am, and deposited excited royalists at King's Cross at 7.39 am. We have all been dreading our second overnight sleeper train. 2.1 A sleeping car, or a berth in one. Example sentencesExamples There are three sleepers on this train, as well as the usual Pacific Parlour, Dining, and Sightseer cars. Also acquired were five ex U.S.Army troop box car style sleepers only built in 1944 for World War II use, these were converted into baggage cars. I immediately noticed that this car was not of the caliber of our original sleeper car. I left Madrid 20 minutes later in a sleeper car, bound for Lisbon. Generally, the sleeper carriages were interspersed with lounge and dining cars - so there was a lot of convivialising. Then the 15 leaving were told to go down the steps to the train, coach to the left, sleepers to the right. Most of the troop trains of the Korean era used standard heavyweight sleepers, which were by then surplus to the Pullman pool as lightweight equipment displaced them. Most private cars can accommodate more passengers during the day than overnight, so consider coupling one to a sleeper car for larger groups or to spread the cost among more people. The consist was essentially the same except that this train had just one sleeper whereas our southbound had two. I could see that today's consist included three locomotives, two sleepers, four coaches, a diner, a lounge car, and a baggage car. Behind the locomotive is a reefer (refrigerator car) to supply ice for drinking water in the sleepers. Since then the company has found another 35 carriages, a mixture of restaurant cars, sleepers and Pullmans, all of which have been beautifully restored at workshops in England, Belgium and Germany. Alas, they had made reservations in the sleeper car for the trip, and I just in a seat, so I was separated from them during the trip. It had 2 engines, 3 coaches, lounge car, dining car, 2 sleepers and 6 freight cars. After dinner, there followed a restless night in the four-berth sleeper listening to the train wheels squealing and screeching. In a sleeper car, several men pass along the hall. At the same time, the elimination of the sleeper berths would mean that a daylight passenger configuration of 21 to 24 seats could be planned. He was there at about 20 minutes before departure and took another couple and us to the sleeper cars. The sleepers used on the Canadian are unique to this train, in that each has three types of accommodations and all are alike. There are seventeen cars: two engines, dorm, two sleepers, diner, lounge, three coaches, and seven mail cars. They bought the trains (including sleeper stock) and then realised that this was stupid - flying was quicker and cheaper. 2.2informal A sleeping pill. he gave me tranquillizers in addition to the sleepers I was already on Example sentencesExamples I took the sleeper pill last night and I slept a dreamless sleep. Also not uncommon was psychological instability resulting from the then common practice of "sleeper" medication. 2.3usually sleepersNorth American A sleepsuit for a baby or small child. Example sentencesExamples Now I want to give you a description, I know we put the picture up, but the little boy has black hair, brown eyes, and he was last seen - there he is right there - wearing a red sleeper. Knitted fabrics, such as those used in T-shirts, sweatshirts, infant sleepers and sportswear, are examples of unstable fabrics. So we brought her home in a little cute sleeper with a matching hat. To take your baby home put baby in a vest and thick sleepsuit if it's cold. Take one pair of child's sleepers and soak it in warm water. 2.4North American A sofa or chair that converts into a bed. Example sentencesExamples Both kinds come in models that can fit either regular sofas or sleepers, as well as easy chairs. A sleeper sofa is the solution chosen by most people in studios, but this limits your options in terms of design, and unmaking and re-making the bed every day can be enough to wear you out. Once you decide on the dual purpose of the room, find yourself a nice sleeper sofa. Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners. The intimate lighting and varnished black sleepers sit easily with a heart-warming pot bellied stove which is an excellent focal point. Do I have to get a sleeper sofa, or does anyone still make Murphy beds? Then she set up the couch into a double sleeper, made it all up, and when she was finished, Relena had already came out from the bathroom in her night clothes. Most of the original furnishings had been destroyed in our first mission, and the room was now outfitted to accommodate four sleepers, with some small amount of storage. That night Daniel didn't sleep with me; he slept on the sleeper sofa. A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed. 3A film, book, play, etc. that eventually achieves unexpected success after initially attracting very little attention. this low-budget, black-and-white American sleeper concerns two brothers as modifier it became one of the sleeper hits of the year Example sentencesExamples This dark red wine is always a sleeper for restaurants that serve char-grilled steaks. If it is marketed the right way it might become a sleeper hit, though it isn't quite good enough to warrant anything like blockbuster status. It is better than most people might think, but not good enough to be a sleeper hit. Getting big weeks from cheap players not only will boost your points total but will increase your team's bottom line as the dollar values for those sleepers rise. People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded. This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film. If these guys get more playing time in the second half, they could be the sleepers who will vault your team to a title. Avoiding a quiet sleeper of a film like this merely deprives you of an exciting movie experience. Is he discovering Quebec sovereignty to be a surprise sleeper hit with the electorate of his riding? So if you have a sleeper, don't expect to hit nine figures… make sure you are enormously profitable with less. It is a documentary on a sort of wheelchair rugby and it is the sleeper hit of the moment. Yet sometimes when something is missed out on, it can play the role of that special something, the sleeper hit, that only you know about, which is a great thing to have. The record became a sleeper hit and in 2003, it spawned a second and third volume, featuring Langford's own artwork. The film was a sleeper hit and even spawned a low-budget sequel. Virtually unheralded, this relatively low-budget affair is a genuine sleeper - a surprise hit that pays off better than any number of more costly affairs. For our purposes, we'll consider a sleeper to be any player whose perceived value now is significantly lower than his potential value during this season. DESPITE THEIR sleeper success, the band are still managing to keep their feet on the ground. It's this interesting concept that made the original Kohan franchise a sleeper hit. This film - and this DVD release - therefore is a sleeper waiting to be discovered. Just as the initial comic book issue became a sleeper success, so too has the silver screen Spider-Man. Any movie with those much marketing dollars is going to attract more viewers than a little tiny movie that might be hoping for a great sleeper hit thanks to a couple good reviews. 3.1 An antique whose true value goes unrecognized for some time. photographed after it proved to be a sleeper, this Regency table took £8,600 instead of £1,500 as anticipated Example sentencesExamples Although we were unable to make out a signature, there is a possibility this antique painting could be a genuine sleeper and a real investment for a lucky buyer. Dealers and collectors love to find a sleeper, and one such is illustrated here. 3.2 A secret agent who remains inactive for a long period while establishing a secure position. a KGB plot to uncover his sleepers Example sentencesExamples A staple of the Cold War espionage novels that used to populate best-seller lists was the sleeper agent. The enemy's people are already in place in this country, sleeper agents waiting for the command to strike. The sleeper agents moved toward parliament as the Guru had instructed them. The enemy within is still there, but today it is not communist sleepers that are the concern but the corrosive influence of big business. All Ashcroft ever did was look into if there were any terror sleeper cells. The network implants a large number of sleeper agents, free of past suspicious activity, giving the authorities no reason to keep an eye on them until only after they've received their cue to strike. Since Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, took the helm in the Kremlin, Russian intelligence networks in central and western Europe have been rebuilt and secret service sleepers activated. I've been told many sleeper agents use it regularly. Jason was assigned as a guard for the queen while he was a sleeper agent. Additionally, years of Soviet occupation left a host of sleeper agents experienced with the region, who still have files on many citizens. Now that we have settled on a definition, let's look at how to uncover these sleepers. He was inserted as a sleeper agent five years ago. He failed, but within a year he had infiltrated America with new teams of sleeper agents ready for one more big push. The Detroit case ended last summer with the convictions, hailed by the Bush administration, of three men who were accused of operating a sleeper terror cell that possessed plans for attacks around the world. Thousands of their agents and sleepers existed throughout South Vietnam's Government, armed forces, and security/intelligence organizations. 4British A ring or post worn in a pierced ear to keep the hole from closing. Example sentencesExamples He wore a gold sleeper in his left ear, a well-worn, waist-length brown leather jacket, dark blue jeans, a black belt and a gold bracelet. The man was also wearing a 9ct gold necklace and a gold sleeper earring in his left ear. There was a brief twinge of pain as she squeezed a sleeper through the needle hole. The window-dresser pushed her hair back from her face and behind her dainty ears, each pierced with rows of silver sleepers. She clicks on the customer list, pulls up the database of 13,000 stock items, checks availability and starts adding in quantities for rings, studs and sleepers. 5British A wooden or concrete beam laid transversely under railway track to support it. Example sentencesExamples Annually the plant will produce 160 000 cement sleepers mostly for export. Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road. Thirty point ends and components in another 47 will be renewed, 9,000 sleepers will be replaced and 9,000 metres of track reballasted. The concrete is poured between the sleepers and over and between the reinforcement. The rail, the fastening, the sleeper and ballast have to spread the 100-tonne weight of a heavy locomotive throughout the system. The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fish-plates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line. Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train. Black plastic between the sleepers and the soil will stop any leeching into the soil. Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad. We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete. In this case, existing landscape determined the form of the track, not the other way around, and great attention was paid to the design of rails, sleepers and trains to reduce noise. You can easily tell which wooden sleepers have been replaced with the concrete ones. In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station. The rails and sleepers were lifted and the track-bed was sold or given to local farmers. I chose reclaimed railway sleepers to contain raised beds around the garden. Another fundraiser is the sale of rail sleepers. Bolts attaching rails to sleepers (US = ties) are marked with a vertical stripe of paint. By 1863 some three million tons of rails, sleepers and locomotives had been shipped to India from Britain in around three and a half thousand ships. The news comes just a year after 50 workers were let go from the rail sleeper plant in Knockmay prior to Christmas 2003 in a move that stunned workers. The need still remains for a survey of permanent way - rails, sleepers and ballast - with a somewhat fuller historical background than the one provided here. Trains, protected by railway sleepers and metal plates, were used - also in the Franco-Prussian war when four were fitted out to defend Paris during the siege. Last week, 80 rivets were also removed from sleepers on a railroad located between the Ban Pa Rai and Ban Kong Sai Railway Stations in Muang District of Pattani. A saw mill built in the early years produced 5,000 railway sleepers and poles for fencing. These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails. Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails. Rails were welded to sleepers in an operation aimed at providing a smoother, quieter and more reliable journey. 6A stocky fish with mottled coloration which occurs widely in warm seas and fresh water. Dormitator and other genera, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae): many species. See also cockabully Example sentencesExamples There are some predatory sleeper gobies that get much bigger. Most fish species cannot tolerate such fluctuations, but some gobies and sleepers have adapted physiologically in ways that have enabled them to thrive. I have a golden head sleeper and he is extremely territorial of his burrow. Yet most gobies and many sleepers in the world are marine. They are commonly known as sleepers, or gudgeons in Australia and New Guinea, and in New Zealand they are called bullies. A heavy, deep sleeper, she is. I'm kind of glad Kyle was such a sound sleeper. Mason has shown signs of the talent that has many calling him this year's rookie sleeper. Rhymes Arequipa, beeper, bleeper, creeper, Dnieper, keeper, leaper, peeper, reaper, sweeper, weeper Definition of sleeper in US English: sleeper nounˈslipərˈslēpər 1with adjective A person or animal who is asleep or who sleeps in a specified way. he was a light sleeper, for long periods an insomniac Example sentencesExamples He came through the front door and was surprised that she still didn't come to, since she was a light sleeper. Nathan had always been the lightest sleeper he had ever known. Homeowners are often light sleepers and armed. I know you've always wanted a whole bunch of kids, and I know whoever your wife is has to be a deep sleeper because you snore a lot more and louder than you think! If your child is generally a good sleeper and begins waking in the night, it's a good idea to check there isn't a medical reason. To prepare for any more rough sleepers we need extra sleeping bags and flasks. He was a lighter sleeper when more people were around, apparently, and woke up while I was walking by. I'm usually a light sleeper in unfamiliar situations, so it's not surprising that I would be a little jumpy. Furthermore, the huge quantity of sleeping pills, sedatives and anti-depressants doled out each year to poor sleepers are a strain on the health budget. She didn't know whether he was a light or heavy sleeper, but apparently, he was a light sleeper. As a light sleeper, I can only struggle now to find better ear-plugs, or hope to sleep with my window forever open and get used to the outside noises as well. I'm quite a light sleeper, so even my answering machine taking a message usually wakes me. Moreover, at 6 months, the mothers of back sleepers reported fewer instances in which their infants had trouble sleeping than did the mothers of stomach sleepers. I'm normally a light sleeper, so it was a surprise that the husband was the first to notice this. I've always been a light sleeper, but years of travel mean I can pretty much fall asleep anywhere. She is a light sleeper and sleeping next to me does deprive her of what little sleep she does get. A light sleeper at all times, Armand had also heard the arrival. Subjects who rated themselves as habitually good sleepers were largely unaffected by the valerian extract. The researchers found cognitive behavioral therapy worked best to treat insomnia, producing the largest number of normal sleepers after treatment. A light sleeper, Debbie required frequent attention from her mother, who was also nursing her. 2A train carrying sleeping cars. Example sentencesExamples A special sleeper train service had been put on; it pulled into York station at 3.32 am, and deposited excited royalists at King's Cross at 7.39 am. There's just enough time to buy provisions for the journey before the long dormant sleeper train pulls up. I was travelling on the sleeper to Inverness when a man in the compartment pointed to the luggage rack. ‘And what have you got in there?’ I decided on the overnight sleeper train from Bangkok, which meant I could sleep at night and not waste one of my precious days travelling. Not long ago I stepped off the overnight sleeper on to the platform at Nice to be revived by a delicious fragrance: the platform was awash with wallflowers. The £465 per person price includes seven nights' hotel accommodation, one night on a sleeper train, breakfast each day and the services of an experienced guide. The sleeper train to Hue sounded not too savoury, however. It proved a great adventure and the kids loved the sleeper train. Passengers were stranded aboard the train for more than three hours while a diesel engine was brought to pull the sleeper into Preston Station. The overnight sleeper train from Hanoi to Hué starts off as a giggle, and ends up as an ordeal. We have all been dreading our second overnight sleeper train. I was travelling on a sleeper train from Istanbul to Belgrade where my passport was stolen after crossing the Bulgarian border. Eleven passengers died when a mystery blaze burned out a carriage of an overnight sleeper train today. My experience of sleeper trains spans the globe from Finland to Australia. He caught a sleeper train from Cairo to Aden in The Yemen. 10 Teams traveled solely by train - for instance in sleepers overnight from New York to Chicago. 2.1 A sleeping car, or a berth in one. Example sentencesExamples I could see that today's consist included three locomotives, two sleepers, four coaches, a diner, a lounge car, and a baggage car. Then the 15 leaving were told to go down the steps to the train, coach to the left, sleepers to the right. After dinner, there followed a restless night in the four-berth sleeper listening to the train wheels squealing and screeching. The sleepers used on the Canadian are unique to this train, in that each has three types of accommodations and all are alike. Also acquired were five ex U.S.Army troop box car style sleepers only built in 1944 for World War II use, these were converted into baggage cars. I left Madrid 20 minutes later in a sleeper car, bound for Lisbon. I immediately noticed that this car was not of the caliber of our original sleeper car. The consist was essentially the same except that this train had just one sleeper whereas our southbound had two. They bought the trains (including sleeper stock) and then realised that this was stupid - flying was quicker and cheaper. Behind the locomotive is a reefer (refrigerator car) to supply ice for drinking water in the sleepers. Most of the troop trains of the Korean era used standard heavyweight sleepers, which were by then surplus to the Pullman pool as lightweight equipment displaced them. There are three sleepers on this train, as well as the usual Pacific Parlour, Dining, and Sightseer cars. Since then the company has found another 35 carriages, a mixture of restaurant cars, sleepers and Pullmans, all of which have been beautifully restored at workshops in England, Belgium and Germany. He was there at about 20 minutes before departure and took another couple and us to the sleeper cars. In a sleeper car, several men pass along the hall. Generally, the sleeper carriages were interspersed with lounge and dining cars - so there was a lot of convivialising. Alas, they had made reservations in the sleeper car for the trip, and I just in a seat, so I was separated from them during the trip. At the same time, the elimination of the sleeper berths would mean that a daylight passenger configuration of 21 to 24 seats could be planned. There are seventeen cars: two engines, dorm, two sleepers, diner, lounge, three coaches, and seven mail cars. It had 2 engines, 3 coaches, lounge car, dining car, 2 sleepers and 6 freight cars. Most private cars can accommodate more passengers during the day than overnight, so consider coupling one to a sleeper car for larger groups or to spread the cost among more people. 2.2often sleepersNorth American One-piece coverall pajamas for a baby or small child. Example sentencesExamples So we brought her home in a little cute sleeper with a matching hat. To take your baby home put baby in a vest and thick sleepsuit if it's cold. Now I want to give you a description, I know we put the picture up, but the little boy has black hair, brown eyes, and he was last seen - there he is right there - wearing a red sleeper. Knitted fabrics, such as those used in T-shirts, sweatshirts, infant sleepers and sportswear, are examples of unstable fabrics. Take one pair of child's sleepers and soak it in warm water. 2.3North American A sofa or chair that converts into a bed. Example sentencesExamples Then she set up the couch into a double sleeper, made it all up, and when she was finished, Relena had already came out from the bathroom in her night clothes. Most of the original furnishings had been destroyed in our first mission, and the room was now outfitted to accommodate four sleepers, with some small amount of storage. That night Daniel didn't sleep with me; he slept on the sleeper sofa. A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed. The intimate lighting and varnished black sleepers sit easily with a heart-warming pot bellied stove which is an excellent focal point. A sleeper sofa is the solution chosen by most people in studios, but this limits your options in terms of design, and unmaking and re-making the bed every day can be enough to wear you out. Both kinds come in models that can fit either regular sofas or sleepers, as well as easy chairs. Once you decide on the dual purpose of the room, find yourself a nice sleeper sofa. Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners. Do I have to get a sleeper sofa, or does anyone still make Murphy beds? 3A movie, book, play, etc., that achieves sudden unexpected success after initially attracting little attention, typically one that proves popular without much promotion or expenditure. Example sentencesExamples Yet sometimes when something is missed out on, it can play the role of that special something, the sleeper hit, that only you know about, which is a great thing to have. This dark red wine is always a sleeper for restaurants that serve char-grilled steaks. It's this interesting concept that made the original Kohan franchise a sleeper hit. DESPITE THEIR sleeper success, the band are still managing to keep their feet on the ground. Any movie with those much marketing dollars is going to attract more viewers than a little tiny movie that might be hoping for a great sleeper hit thanks to a couple good reviews. This film - and this DVD release - therefore is a sleeper waiting to be discovered. Virtually unheralded, this relatively low-budget affair is a genuine sleeper - a surprise hit that pays off better than any number of more costly affairs. The record became a sleeper hit and in 2003, it spawned a second and third volume, featuring Langford's own artwork. People claimed that the precedent set out by the sleeper hit in 1998 was finally superseded. If these guys get more playing time in the second half, they could be the sleepers who will vault your team to a title. It is a documentary on a sort of wheelchair rugby and it is the sleeper hit of the moment. Avoiding a quiet sleeper of a film like this merely deprives you of an exciting movie experience. It is better than most people might think, but not good enough to be a sleeper hit. This sequel to the 2001 sleeper hit is a thinly veiled facsimile of the first film. Just as the initial comic book issue became a sleeper success, so too has the silver screen Spider-Man. So if you have a sleeper, don't expect to hit nine figures… make sure you are enormously profitable with less. For our purposes, we'll consider a sleeper to be any player whose perceived value now is significantly lower than his potential value during this season. The film was a sleeper hit and even spawned a low-budget sequel. Is he discovering Quebec sovereignty to be a surprise sleeper hit with the electorate of his riding? Getting big weeks from cheap players not only will boost your points total but will increase your team's bottom line as the dollar values for those sleepers rise. If it is marketed the right way it might become a sleeper hit, though it isn't quite good enough to warrant anything like blockbuster status. 3.1 An antique whose true value goes unrecognized for some time. Example sentencesExamples Dealers and collectors love to find a sleeper, and one such is illustrated here. Although we were unable to make out a signature, there is a possibility this antique painting could be a genuine sleeper and a real investment for a lucky buyer. 3.2 A secret agent who remains inactive for a long period while establishing a secure position. Example sentencesExamples All Ashcroft ever did was look into if there were any terror sleeper cells. Additionally, years of Soviet occupation left a host of sleeper agents experienced with the region, who still have files on many citizens. He was inserted as a sleeper agent five years ago. Now that we have settled on a definition, let's look at how to uncover these sleepers. He failed, but within a year he had infiltrated America with new teams of sleeper agents ready for one more big push. The Detroit case ended last summer with the convictions, hailed by the Bush administration, of three men who were accused of operating a sleeper terror cell that possessed plans for attacks around the world. Since Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, took the helm in the Kremlin, Russian intelligence networks in central and western Europe have been rebuilt and secret service sleepers activated. Jason was assigned as a guard for the queen while he was a sleeper agent. The sleeper agents moved toward parliament as the Guru had instructed them. The enemy's people are already in place in this country, sleeper agents waiting for the command to strike. I've been told many sleeper agents use it regularly. The enemy within is still there, but today it is not communist sleepers that are the concern but the corrosive influence of big business. The network implants a large number of sleeper agents, free of past suspicious activity, giving the authorities no reason to keep an eye on them until only after they've received their cue to strike. Thousands of their agents and sleepers existed throughout South Vietnam's Government, armed forces, and security/intelligence organizations. A staple of the Cold War espionage novels that used to populate best-seller lists was the sleeper agent. 4British A railroad tie. Example sentencesExamples The concrete is poured between the sleepers and over and between the reinforcement. You can easily tell which wooden sleepers have been replaced with the concrete ones. Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train. In this case, existing landscape determined the form of the track, not the other way around, and great attention was paid to the design of rails, sleepers and trains to reduce noise. The news comes just a year after 50 workers were let go from the rail sleeper plant in Knockmay prior to Christmas 2003 in a move that stunned workers. Bolts attaching rails to sleepers (US = ties) are marked with a vertical stripe of paint. The rail, the fastening, the sleeper and ballast have to spread the 100-tonne weight of a heavy locomotive throughout the system. These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails. Another fundraiser is the sale of rail sleepers. Trains, protected by railway sleepers and metal plates, were used - also in the Franco-Prussian war when four were fitted out to defend Paris during the siege. I chose reclaimed railway sleepers to contain raised beds around the garden. In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station. Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad. Thirty point ends and components in another 47 will be renewed, 9,000 sleepers will be replaced and 9,000 metres of track reballasted. The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fish-plates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line. Black plastic between the sleepers and the soil will stop any leeching into the soil. The rails and sleepers were lifted and the track-bed was sold or given to local farmers. We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete. Last week, 80 rivets were also removed from sleepers on a railroad located between the Ban Pa Rai and Ban Kong Sai Railway Stations in Muang District of Pattani. By 1863 some three million tons of rails, sleepers and locomotives had been shipped to India from Britain in around three and a half thousand ships. Rails were welded to sleepers in an operation aimed at providing a smoother, quieter and more reliable journey. A saw mill built in the early years produced 5,000 railway sleepers and poles for fencing. Some 6,400 yards of new rail, 12,200 steel sleepers and 31,000 tonnes of ballast were used and brought in by train rather than by road. Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails. Annually the plant will produce 160 000 cement sleepers mostly for export. The need still remains for a survey of permanent way - rails, sleepers and ballast - with a somewhat fuller historical background than the one provided here. 5A stocky fish with mottled coloration which occurs widely in warm seas and fresh water. Dormitator and other genera, family Gobiidae (or Eleotridae): many species Example sentencesExamples A heavy, deep sleeper, she is. Most fish species cannot tolerate such fluctuations, but some gobies and sleepers have adapted physiologically in ways that have enabled them to thrive. There are some predatory sleeper gobies that get much bigger. They are commonly known as sleepers, or gudgeons in Australia and New Guinea, and in New Zealand they are called bullies. I'm kind of glad Kyle was such a sound sleeper. Mason has shown signs of the talent that has many calling him this year's rookie sleeper. Yet most gobies and many sleepers in the world are marine. I have a golden head sleeper and he is extremely territorial of his burrow.
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