Word Finder - inactive

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Not active, temporarily or permanently.

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An inactive boy, he rarely exercised and preferred to stay indoors.

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Not functioning or operating; broken down

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The photocopier is inactive pending repair.

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Retired from duty or service.

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Admiral Jones is now on the inactive list.

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Relatively inert.

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Aluminium is inactive towards water.

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Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

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Synthetic glycine is optically inactive as it contains equal amounts of the d- and l- form.

During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.

Let's chalk it up to an inactive spring.

Prince Andrew's regiment was among the reserves which till after one o'clock were stationed inactive behind Semenovsk, under heavy artillery fire.

In addition, radium evolves an "emanation" which is an extraordinarily inert gas, recalling the "inactive" gases of the atmosphere.

Hydrolysis of the bound GTP to GDP + P i converts the protein to the inactive conformation.

Uniquely, the technique does not render the viruses inactive.

I wouldn't call you dull, just inactive.

Physically inactive people have about double the risk of CHD.

All of the successful candidates have confirmed that they are politically inactive.

If your card has a zero balance for more than 90 days, it becomes inactive.

In these people, the TB bacteria remain inactive for a lifetime without causing disease.

Thus, Pasteur showed that Penicillium glaucum, when grown in an aqueous solution of ammonium racemate, decomposed the dextro-tartrate, leaving the laevotartrate, and the solution which was originally inactive to polarized light became dextro-rotatory.

He was, however, far from inactive.

He landed at Newport, Rhode Island, on the 10th of July, but was held here inactive for a year, owing to his reluctance to abandon the French fleet, which was blockaded by the British in Narragansett Bay.

Acetyl and benzoyl derivatives of nicotine on hydrolysis do not yield nicotine, but an isomeric, inactive oily liquid (metanicotine).

As the issuers changed, the Clout website and customer-service telephone numbers eventually became inactive.

Children who are inactive and eat unhealthy diets often turn into adults with weight-related health problems.

When, as in the formation of naphthalene tetrachloride, for example, the one ring becomes saturated, the other might be expected to assume the normal centric form and become relatively inactive.

But he was by no means inactive.

Yet even now he was not wholly inactive.

Meanwhile the league was inactive.

Their constitution follows from their formation from dibromosuccinic acid and from their synthesis from glyoxal cyanhydrin, these two methods producing the inactive racemic form which may then be split into the active components.

The resulting peace was sealed by the murder of Ildichis and Ustrogotthus, and the Langobardi seem to have continued inactive until the death of Audoin, perhaps in 565, and the accession of his son Alboin, who had won a great reputation in the wars with the Gepidae.

The northern portion of the residency constitutes the most fertile portion, is generally flat with a hilly group in the middle, where the two inactive volcanoes, Karang and Pulosari, are found, while the north-western corner is occupied by the isolated Gede Mountain.

The capacity of plant seeds to remain dry and inactive for very long periods is still better known.

The a-propyl piperidine so obtained is the inactive (racemic) form of conine, and it can be resolved into the dextroand laevo-varieties by means of dextro-tartaric acid, the d-conine d-tartrate with caustic soda giving d-conine closely resembling the naturally occurring alkaloid.

A dimethyl ether of inactive inosite is dambonite which occurs in caoutchouc from Gabon.

Pseudopelletierine (methyl granatonine), C9H15N0, an alkaloid of the pomegranate, is a derivative of cyclo-octane, and resembles tropine in that it contains a nitrogen bridge between two carbon atoms. It is an inactive base, and also has ketonic properties.

These teleutospores remain inactive on the straw until spring, when they germinate in manure heaps or on moist ground and produce minute sporidia, which are conveyed by air currents to the alternate host, in this case a barberry.

Hitherto Catherine had been merely the resigned and neglected wife of Henry II., and though eloquent, insinuating and ambitious, she had been inactive.

Bouchotte, a totally inefficient minister for war, the Communes man of straw, left the army without food or ammunition, while the suspected officers remained inactive.

A mixture of two active substances, or even of an active and an inactive substance, in one solution sometimes produces anomalous effects.

Reusch has shown that a packet of identical inactive plates arranged in spiral fashion gives an artificial active system, and the behaviour of certain pseudosymmetric crystals indicates a formation of this character.

The rotary property may be induced in substances naturally inactive.

During the negotiations the secret societies had not been inactive.

This action, though not opposed to Chinese ethics, was so opposed to Gordon's ideas of honour that he withdrew his force from Suchow and remained inactive at Quinsan until February 5864.

The chromatin diminution is the elimination of an inactive chromatin from a genome.

This would in effect establish a boundary between inactive condensed chromatin and active open chromatin.

This metabolizes the relatively active cortisol to the inactive cortisone.

On 11th December 2003, Lycos announced that accounts that have been inactive for three months or more will be automatically deactivated.

To issue a command " to pull yourself together " to a deeply depressed, inactive patient is an obscenity.

The lower rate of tax, which applies to inactive wastes disposed at landfill, remains at £ 2 per ton.

This enzyme modifies the host hormone ecdysone to render it inactive.

She went from being totally inactive to becoming a regular exerciser.

The product of this reaction, RsbV, liberates B from its inactive complex with RsbW and induces expression of the general stress proteins.

In a remarkably frank interview, published in the weekly paper Demos, Gouveia accused the party's secretariat of being " inactive " .

This shows whether we currently regard this as an ' active ', ' putative ' or ' inactive ' peptidase homologue.

However, there are another 200,000 people defined as 'economically inactive ', who say they would like to work.

This is known as a racemic mixture and it is optically inactive due to one isomer canceling out the optical effect of the other.

The market was also relatively inactive during the period of the General Election in May.