单词 | dormant |
释义 | dor·mant 1. a. archaic < a dormant timber across a foundation > b. < one of the ancient's hoary eyebrows seemed to go up a few millimeters but otherwise his face remained dormant — Earle Birney > 2. a. heraldry b. (1) < the preacher, who would interrupt his discourse to denounce a dormant worshiper — American Guide Series: Michigan > (2) < he lay there dormant with his eyes closed but waiting for a chance to escape > c. < when the surrounding water gets too hot mollusks become dormant > d. (1) (2) < dormant grafting > < a 5-percent dormant oil is used to control fruit-tree leaf roller > e. of a volcano 3. a. archaic b. < reviving a long-dormant statute > c. < a peerage said to be dormant > 4. a. < it seemed to him that crime was a seed in the whole of humanity … it lay dormant everywhere — Ben Hecht > < that native musical talent lay dormant in the mountain folk > < feeling between the two girls which had for some time been reasonably dormant flared up again — Ernest Beaglehole > < thoughts lie dormant for ages; and then, almost suddenly as it were, mankind finds that they have embodied themselves in institutions — A.N.Whitehead > b. < his imaginative powers will for the most part lie dormant — C.S.Kilby > < which power can never be exercised by the people themselves but must be placed in the hands of agents or lie dormant — John Marshall > c. < the Church of England was, indeed, if anything more dormant than the Catholic Church in France — Stringfellow Barr > < a dormant corporation > d. (1) < the mouse-chewed papers of an old family in a dormant English hamlet — R.D.Altick > (2) < where science had been dormant since the days of Kepler — S.F.Mason > 5. < the controversy lay dormant through 1873 and 1874 and might have expired altogether — J.A.Cassidy > 6. < methods of salvaging dormant metals in the printing industry > 7. of stock 8. of a period of time < war all over again after five dormant years — Robert Sherrod > Synonyms: see latent, prone |
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