noun
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A crossbeam or joist.
adjective
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Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
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Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
definition
In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
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a lion dormant
definition
Leaning.
Examples of dormant in a Sentence
They are cut to the last dormant bud in winter.
In the winter it covers the orifice of this burrow with a layer of silk, and lies dormant underground until the return of spring.
The developing seed thus encloses fungal hyphae, which remain dormant within the seed and in spring develop symbiotically with the growth of the wheat plant, doing no apparent injury until the time of fruiting is reached, when the fungus takes complete possession and fills the new seed with a mass of darkcoloured spores.
In Owen's Valley is a fine group of extinct or dormant volcanoes.
A lesson in geometry, given by Ostilio Ricci to the pages of the grand-ducal court, chanced, tradition avers, to have Galileo for an unseen listener; his attention was riveted, his dormant genius was roused, and he threw all his energies into the new pursuit thus unexpectedly presented to him.
By subjecting a plant to a gradually increasing temperature, and supplying water in proportion, its growth may be accelerated; its season of development may be, as it were, anticipated; it is roused from a dormant to an active state.
Generaly this is a timid animal, feeding almost solely on fruits, and lying dormant during winter.
In other cases the strands undergo differentiation into an outer layer with blackened, hardened cell-walls and a core of ordinary hyphae, and are then termed rhizomorphs (Armillaria mellea), capable not only of extending the fungus in the soil, like roots, but also of lying dormant, protected by the outer casing.
Thus the first impulse of modern progress was given to the dormant valley.
It had to wait two centuries after the revolution of 987 before it was strong enough to take up the dormant tradition of an authority like that of Rome; and until then it cunningly avoided unequal strife in which, victory being impossible, reverses might have weakened those titles, higher than any due to feudal rights, conferred by the heritage of the Caesars and the coronation at Reims, and held in reserve for the future.
In most species many of these buds, which alternate with the leaves, remain dormant, but in others the aerial shoots are copiously and repeatedly branched.
Tulips need a cold dormant season in order to bloom, but not too cold.
While the game itself has stayed dormant for the last nine years, the setting has had a rich and fruitful life.
Sudden warmth will cause a dormant tree to "wake up" and start to grow and a tree that is actively growing will die when it is abruptly returned to freezing conditions.
There are eight other volcanoes, which although extinct or dormant have well-preserved cones.
Therefore, America's military tended to be relatively dormant.
The energy of serenity lies dormant in all things, waiting to be awakened.
This added layer should allow them to stay dormant for the winter and grow in the spring.Whether you have root vegetables already planted or just a few perennials hanging out over winter, it is still best to mulch the entire garden.
Asbestos can lay dormant without causing any adverse effects for many years.
The Grand Lodge of all England at York became dormant.
Did you have positive PCR tests over a period of several years until 1996 before your PCR tests went dormant?
Many sciophytes are herbaceous tropophytes, and are dormant for more than half the year, usually during late summer, autumn and early winter.
The peerage became extinct or dormant on the death of the 8th viscount in 1767.
Development of larva and seed go on together, a few of the seeds serving as food for the insect, which when mature eats through the pericarp and drops to the ground, remaining dormant in its cocoon until the next season of flowering when it emerges as a moth.
In spring 2004 we were surprised to find the dormant Sydenham Town the most popular Sydenham site by Google ranking.
Planting in early fall gives the root system time to get established before going dormant in the winter.
In general, pruning deciduous plants when dormant (after leaf drop) helps you see their structure and reduces pest and disease problems.
Fertilize in late fall when trees are dormant or in early spring just before new growth starts.
Fall planting provides the tree or shrub with enough time to set down some roots before going dormant for the winter.
With cooler weather, most plants, including lawns, go into a dormant period.
Before the lawn goes into its dormant phase, it should be at its healthiest.
Dormant plants kept in large pots or tubs can be moved into garages or other shelters if necessary.
When plants are dormant in the winter, their water needs are considerably less than during the active periods of growth and reproduction during the summer months.
Oregano, mint, and similar herbs may go dormant but usually do not require much winter protection.
The plants are dormant during the summer months and bloom from late winter through the spring.
When this occurs, the follicles become dormant, and hair stops growing.
The other 10 percent of your hair remains in a dormant or resting stage, and these are the hairs that are usually shed.
Women who have become infected six months or more before conception do not pass the infection on to their fetus, because the organism has become dormant (inactive) and formed thick-walled cysts in muscle and other tissues of the body.
Antibody levels can be elevated for years, however, even when the disease is in a dormant state.
The herpes virus lies dormant in the nerves of the face and is reactivated by sunburn, a recent viral illness (cold or flu), and periods of stress.
Latent virus-A nonactive virus that is in a dormant state within a cell.
Impairment of the immune system has been unquestionably determined to be the reason why Herpes Viruses are reactivated from a dormant state and re-infect children causing Bell's palsy.
These dormant viruses are concentrated in nerve cells near the spinal cord and may reactivate in adults, causing the disease herpes zoster or shingles.
It is not known whether the weakened virus used for VZV can remain dormant in the body, eventually causing shingles in the same way that the naturally occurring varicella virus can.
Like other herpes viruses, CMV remains inactive (dormant) within the body for life after the initial infection.
Some of the more serious types of CMV infections occur in people who have been harboring the dormant virus, only to have it reactivate when their immune system is stressed.
However, this information is not always particularly helpful because CMV stays dormant in the cells for life.
About 50 percent of all transplant patients develop severe illnesses due to reactivation of dormant CMV infection.
More often than not the blisters disappear without treatment in two to 10 days, but the virus remains in the body, lying dormant among clusters of nerve cells until another outbreak is triggered.
Lacking these conditions, the bacteria transform themselves into spores that, like plant seeds, can remain dormant for years.