dormant
US /ˈdɔrmənt/
・UK /ˈdɔ:mənt/
C1TOEIC
adj.AdjectiveTemporarily not active/growing
The seeds that you just planted will remain dormant during the winter but will flower in the spring
adj.Adjective(of a disease) Present but not active or causing symptoms.
The disease can remain dormant for years before symptoms appear.
adj.Adjective(of a volcano) Temporarily inactive but capable of erupting again.
The volcano is dormant, but could erupt again.
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Knight
- the Dormant Order of St.
the Dormant Order of St.
- of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the dormant Order of Saint Patrick, of which
of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the dormant Order of Saint Patrick, of which
What's Inside These 8 Unique Creatures?
- Before the chrysalis stage, these disks were kept dormant by a series of hormones in the caterpillar's body.
Before the chrysalis stage, these disks were kept dormant by a series of hormones in the caterpillar's body.
- Before the chrysalis stage, these discs were kept dormant by a series of hormones in the caterpillar's body.
Before the chrysalis stage, these discs were kept dormant by a series of hormones in the caterpillar's body.
Why Does My Brain Sleep?
- What that means, that's not that your brain is dormant by any stretch of the imagination.
What that means, that's not that your brain is dormant by any stretch of the imagination.
- What that means, that's not that your brain is dormant by any stretch of the imagination.
What that means, that's not that your brain is dormant by any stretch of the imagination.
Onism: The Awareness of How Little of the World You'll Experience
- Eventually these questions take on a weight of their own and begin looming over your everyday life, all the billions of doors you had to close in order to take a single step forward, all the things you haven't done and may never get around to doing, all the risks that may or may not have been real, all the destinations that you didn't buy a ticket to, all the lights you see in the distance that you can only wonder about, all the alternate histories you narrowly avoided, all the fantasies that stay dormant inside your head, everything you're giving up to be where you are right now, the questions that you wrongly assume are unanswerable.
Eventually these questions take on a weight of their own and begin looming over your everyday life, all the billions of doors you had to close in order to take a single step forward, all the things you haven't done and may never get around to doing, all the risks that may or may not have been real, all the destinations that you didn't buy a ticket to, all the lights you see in the distance that you can only wonder about, all the alternate histories you narrowly avoided, all the fantasies that stay dormant inside your head, everything you're giving up to be where you are right now, the questions that you wrongly assume are unanswerable.
- all the fantasies that stay dormant inside your head;
all the fantasies that stay dormant inside your head;
The Biggest Lie About AI
- Microsoft recently announced it had signed a 20-year deal to purchase energy from the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the one that had a meltdown in the 1970s.
Microsoft recently announced it had signed a 20-year deal to purchase energy from the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the one that had a meltdown in the 1970s.
- Microsoft recently announced it had signed a 20-year deal to purchase energy from the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the one that had a meltdown in the 1970s.
Microsoft recently announced it had signed a 20-year deal to purchase energy from the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, the one that had a meltdown in the 1970s.
Inside Japan’s $80B Fukushima Cleanup as AI Fuels Atomic Energy’s Comeback | WSJ
- The Fukushima plant will stay shut forever, but power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan as the AI revolution sends demand for energy soaring.
The Fukushima plant will stay shut forever, but power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan as the AI revolution sends demand for energy soaring.
- but power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan as the AI revolution sends demand for energy soaring.
but power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan as the AI revolution sends demand for energy soaring.
The Flu May Cause Alzheimer's
- In between flare-ups, the herpes virus lays dormant in our peripheral nervous system.
In between flare-ups, the herpes virus lays dormant in our peripheral nervous system.
- And in mice, anytime those dormant viruses reactivate, they for some reason ramp up production of the same toxic proteins that make up the plaques in Alzheimer's patients, essentially accelerating neurodegeneration.
And in mice, anytime those dormant viruses reactivate, they for some reason ramp up production of the same toxic proteins that make up the plaques in Alzheimer's patients, essentially accelerating neurodegeneration.
How Do I Prune Raspberries?
- raspberries is really any time after they go dormant. So, this can happen at any time
raspberries is really any time after they go dormant. So, this can happen at any time
- Now, the proper time to prune raspberries is really any time after they go dormant, so this can happen any time from November right through March.
Now, the proper time to prune raspberries is really any time after they go dormant, so this can happen any time from November right through March.
I got tested for a personality disorder
- You mostly manage the symptoms and build a life that allows your PTSD to go dormant inside of you.
You mostly manage the symptoms and build a life that allows your PTSD to go dormant inside of you.
- You mostly manage the symptoms and build a life that allows your PTSD to go dormant inside of you.
You mostly manage the symptoms and build a life that allows your PTSD to go dormant inside of you.
How Levi’s, Gap And American Eagle Are Winning Back U.S. Shoppers
- It's a category that's seeing really nice growth after a period of being dormant for a long time.
It's a category that's seeing really nice growth after a period of being dormant for a long time.
- It's a category that's seeing really nice growth after a period of being dormant for a long time, after all of its competition.
It's a category that's seeing really nice growth after a period of being dormant for a long time, after all of its competition.