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dormant

/dawr-muhnt/US // ˈdɔr mənt //UK // (ˈdɔːmənt) //

休眠状态,休眠,休眠期,休眠的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience.
    • : in a state of rest or inactivity; inoperative; in abeyance: The project is dormant for the time being.
    • : Biology. in a state of minimal metabolic activity with cessation of growth, either as a reaction to adverse conditions or as part of an organism's normal annual rhythm.
    • : undisclosed; unasserted: dormant musical talent.
    • : Geology. not having erupted within the last 10,000 years, but having the probability of erupting again.Compare active, extinct.
    • : Botany. temporarily inactive: dormant buds; dormant seeds.
    • : applied to a plant during a period of dormancy: a dormant spray.
    • : Heraldry. represented as lying with its head on its forepaws, as if asleep.

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Examples

  • Hike the trail along the southwest rim of a dormant volcano at Death Valley’s Ubehebe Crater, and meander along Artist’s Drive, a nine-mile road that passes through hillsides colorfully tinted with volcanic sediment.

  • Demo stations for “Death Stranding” and “Super Mario Maker 2” were dusty and dormant.

  • However, many of those paltry 51 genes contained in the tiger rattlesnake’s genome seemed to be dormant.

  • Others use them as refuges when the creatures need to go dormant during the hot dry summer.

  • The Balbiani body is believed to protect mitochondria during the oocyte’s dormant phase by clustering a majority of the mitochondria together with long amyloid protein fibers.

  • In addition to its million-and-a-half year dormant stretch, the fault line is nearly impossible to see from above.

  • We reported on the efforts of Dr. Susan Harkema, who is working to “wake up” dormant spinal cord neurons.

  • There was a Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during this period, but it was largely dormant.

  • In some patients, symptoms can lie dormant anywhere from seven days to eight weeks.

  • Is there an innate, yet dormant capacity within the elderly to actually reverse their ailments if only given the right signals?

  • The dormant accounts most of the banks maintain with the reserve bank are, perhaps, indicative of their attitude toward it.

  • And would some measure of great success won on those lines stir the dormant greatness in him?

  • This is a great improvement over the secret and dormant methods of getting the capital needed for partnership purposes.

  • A few of the volcanoes in the latter region have only recently become extinct; a few may be only dormant.

  • In a row stood five large, glass-mounted incubators; behind the glass doors lay, in dormant majesty, five enormous eggs.

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