Dormant
['dɔːm(ə)nt] or ['dɔrmənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; 'a dormant volcano' .
(adj.) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; 'dormant buds'; 'a hibernating bear'; 'torpid frogs' .
(adj.) lying with head on paws as if sleeping .
編輯:凯利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
(a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
(a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
艾莉森編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Sleeping, quiescent, at rest.[2]. Latent, unexerted, suspended, inert, inactive.
編輯:瑞伊
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sleeping, slumbering, latent, undeveloped, quiescent, inert
ANT:Vigilant, wakeful, active, operative, developed, energetic
錄入:特德
解釋/意思:
adj. sleeping: at rest: not used in abeyance (as a title): in a sleeping posture: (archit.) leaning.—n. a crossbeam: a joist.—n. Dor′mancy quiescence.—ns. Dor′mer-win′dow a vertical window esp. of a sleeping-room (formerly called dormer) on the sloping roof of a house; Dormi′tion sleeping.—adj. Dor′mitive causing sleep (of medicine) as opium.—ns. Dor′mitory a large sleeping-chamber with many beds; Dor′mouse a small rodent intermediate between the squirrel and the mouse so called because torpid in winter:—pl. Dor′mice; Dor′tour (Spens.) a dormitory.
整理:皮尔斯
例句/造句/用法:
- The question instantly awakened one of my dormant remembrances in connection with the birthday festival. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- After what has been said in previous chapters, it will not seem so strange that Edison should have hundreds of dormant inventions on his hands. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We may mean by potentiality a merely dormant or quiescent state--a capacity to become something different under external influences. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Fulton, always an ardent patriot, answered, At all events, whatever may be your reward, I will never consent to let these inventions lie dormant should my Country at any time have need of them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I am full of dormant good qualities, if Rachel would only have helped me to bring them out! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They alone are capable of giving ideas of relation, and of arousing the dormant energies of thought. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Bramah's press illustrates how the theories of one age often lie dormant, but if true become the practices of a succeeding age. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- With frogs and amphibious reptiles the dormant state is very common, and if the temperature is kept low by artificial means they may remain dormant for years. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It roused all my dormant recollections, my suspended sentiments of injury, and gave rise to the new one of revenge. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- For a number of years, however, the invention lay dormant and served no other purpose than that of a scientific curiosity or an amusing toy. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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