英语词汇“dormant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	dormant
释义	dor·mant \ˈdȯrmənt, ˈdȯ(ə)m-\ adjective Etymology: Middle English dormaunt, from Middle French dormant, from present participle of dormir to sleep, from Latin dormire; akin to Greek edrathon, erdathon I slept, Sanskrit drāti, drāyati he sleeps, Old Slavic drěmati to doze, Armenian tartam slow, sleepy 1. a. archaic : fixed in position < a dormant timber across a foundation > b. : relaxed or immobile < one of the ancient's hoary eyebrows seemed to go up a few millimeters but otherwise his face remained dormant — Earle Birney > 2. : inactive: a. heraldry : lying down with the head resting on the forepaws — distinguished from couchant b. (1) : sleeping or drowsing < the preacher, who would interrupt his discourse to denounce a dormant worshiper — American Guide Series: Michigan > (2) : having the faculties suspended or as if suspended : sluggish, lethargic < he lay there dormant with his eyes closed but waiting for a chance to escape > c. : having growth, development, or other biological activity suspended; especially : being in a state of suspended animation (as in hibernation) < when the surrounding water gets too hot mollusks become dormant > d. (1) : resting, inactive — used of buds or other plant parts (2) : associated with, carried out, or applied during dormancy < dormant grafting > < a 5-percent dormant oil is used to control fruit-tree leaf roller > e. of a volcano : passing a considerable period in a state of repose yet still eruptive 3. a. archaic : written with name or particulars blank to be filled in when put to use b. : of no effect or unevoked or unenforced during an interval of time < reviving a long-dormant statute > c. : vacant or neglected by the rightful holder yet heritable < a peerage said to be dormant > 4. : temporarily devoid of discernible activity, energy, power, or effect: a. : existing in latent form or in a minimum degree but capable of bursting into full activity < 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. : waiting only to be called into play < 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. : having natural or normal functions suspended yet capable of resumption < the Church of England was, indeed, if anything more dormant than the Catholic Church in France — Stringfellow Barr > < a dormant corporation > d. (1) : marked by or giving an appearance of inactivity or stagnation : slow-moving : drowsy < the mouse-chewed papers of an old family in a dormant English hamlet — R.D.Altick > (2) : tending to stagnate socially, intellectually, or artistically : failing to make strides : unprogressive < where science had been dormant since the days of Kepler — S.F.Mason > 5. : neglected or allowed to lapse into disregard or obscurity yet revocable or revivable < the controversy lay dormant through 1873 and 1874 and might have expired altogether — J.A.Cassidy > 6. : discarded or unused but of potential utility < methods of salvaging dormant metals in the printing industry > 7. of stock : moving imperceptibly in the market 8. of a period of time : marked by suspension of activity : covering the extent of dormancy < war all over again after five dormant years — Robert Sherrod > Synonyms: see latent, prone
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