Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. Someone who sleeps.
2. (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
3. That which lies dormant, as a law.
4. (carpentry) 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.
6. (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
7. (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
8. A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
9. A railway sleeping car.
10. (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
11. Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
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.
15. (automotive, slang) 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.
16. (slang) A sedative.
17. (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
18. (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.

Verbi

1. (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.