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sleep vs rapid eye movement

rapid eye movement vs sleep

sleep and rapid eye movement both are nouns.

sleep is a verb but rapid eye movement is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sleep Yes No Yes No
rapid eye movement Yes No No No
As nouns, rapid eye movement is a hyponym of sleep; that is, rapid eye movement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sleep:
  • sleep: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
  • rapid eye movement: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
Other hyponyms of sleep include sleeping, nonrapid eye movement, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM, NREM sleep, orthodox sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM, REM sleep, shut-eye, shuteye.
sleep (noun) rapid eye movement (noun)
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
a torpid state resembling deep sleep
a period of time spent sleeping
sleep (verb) rapid eye movement (verb)
be asleep
be able to accommodate for sleeping
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