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dormancy 音标拼音: [d'ɔrmənsi] n. 睡眠,冬眠,潜伏 睡眠,冬眠,潜伏 dormancy n 1: a state of quiet ( but possibly temporary) inaction; " the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [ synonym: { dormancy}, { quiescence}, { quiescency}] 2: quiet and inactive restfulness [ synonym: { quiescence}, { quiescency}, { dormancy}, { sleeping}] Dormancy \ Dor" man* cy\, n. [ From { Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [ 1913 Webster]
Dormancy \ Dor" man* cy\, n. [ From { Dormant}.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. [ 1913 Webster] It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from { couchant}. [ 1913 Webster] { Dormant partner} ( Com.), a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses; -- called also { sleeping partner} or { silent partner}. { Dormant window} ( Arch.), a dormer window. See { Dormer}. { Table dormant}, a stationary table. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 76 Moby Thesaurus words for " dormancy": a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, delitescence, do- nothing policy, do- nothingism, do- nothingness, doldrums, entropy, hibernation, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, intermission, interruption, laissez- aller, laissez- faire, laissez- faireism, languor, latency, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, lotus- eating, lull, meditation, motionlessness, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self- annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, policy, possibility, potentiality, procrastination, quiescence, quiescency, quietism, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, suspension, torpor, underactivity, vegetation, virtuality, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting
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