Crossword clues for dormancy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dormancy \Dor"man*cy\, n. [From Dormant.] The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very
rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a
people.
--Burke.
2. (Her.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1723; see dormant + -cy. Middle English had dormitation "sleep, sleeping" (mid-15c.)
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.
WordNet
n. a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [syn: quiescence, quiescency]
quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping]
Wikipedia
Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped. This minimizes metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism to conserve energy. Dormancy tends to be closely associated with environmental conditions. Organisms can synchronize entry to a dormant phase with their environment through predictive or consequential means. Predictive dormancy occurs when an organism enters a dormant phase before the onset of adverse conditions. For example, photoperiod and decreasing temperature are used by many plants to predict the onset of winter. Consequential dormancy occurs when organisms enter a dormant phase after adverse conditions have arisen. This is commonly found in areas with an unpredictable climate. While very sudden changes in conditions may lead to a high mortality rate among animals relying on consequential dormancy, its use can be advantageous, as organisms remain active longer and are therefore able to make greater use of available resources.
Usage examples of "dormancy".
Khalid: some fugitive gene out of forgotten antiquity miraculously surfacing in him after a dormancy of centuries, the eye of a Gandharan sculptor, of a Rajput architect, a Guiarati miniaturist coming to the fore in him after passing through all those generations of the peasantry.
Khalid: some fugitive gene out of forgotten antiquity miraculously surfacing in him after a dormancy of centuries, the eye of a Gandharan sculptor, of a Rajput architect, a Gujerati miniaturist coming to the fore in him after passing through all those generations of the peasantry.
A blow had broken ribs and ruptured organs-minor damage but enough to induce dormancy in a luren or to kill a human.
And, you suggest, it is only at sunset that the Phoebeans emerge from dormancy?
And in those swallowingly vast volumes, amongst those spaces between the spaces between the stars, around suns, dwarfs, nebulae and holes it had been determined from some distance were of no immediate interest or threat, it was of course always possible that some danger waited, some peril lurked, comparatively small measured against the physical scale of the galaxy's present active cultures, but capable - through a developmental peculiarity or as a result of some form of temporal limbo or exclusionary dormancy - of challenging and besting even a representative of a society as technologically advanced and contactually experienced as the Elench.
The turning of the seasons was a longer, slower rhythm, an almost imperceptible crescendo and decrescendo of vitality and dormancy, fecundity and death.
When the body combusts, it sets free the spirit which had been hiding away in protective dormancy from the brutality of its physical and historical predicaments.
Like the lefts, They were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful.
Ever since his accident he had become accustomed to a kind of dormancy, settling for the most part for a simple absence of pain, but now he began to perceive that somewhere-maybe a long way down the road yet, but someday certainly and inevitably-he would actually be happy again.
Across the galaxy, research programmes into Subliming were quietly instituted, dragged out of dormancy and re-energised, or accelerated as the horrible possibilities sank in.