(a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
(a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
(a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
Example Sentences:
(1) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(2) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
(3) "Dormant" gene hypothesis and related data are reviewed in this connection.
(4) UDP-galactose 4-epimerase is present in the dormant seed.
(5) We conclude that amino acid infusion can increase GFR, possibly by utilization of 'dormant cortical nephrons' together with a rise in net ultrafiltration pressure of other filtrating glomeruli, both due to afferent vasodilatation.
(6) Activation of the dormant embryos of Artemia salina was marked by a rapid increase in 32P uptake which reached a stationary phase after 6 h of activation.
(7) Haploid and diploid strains were exposed, either as dormant conidia or during mitosis, and analysed for induced aneuploidy and effects on genetic segregation.
(8) The disaggregation of polysomes is an indication that the initiation step in protein synthesis is disrupted and is further evidence that the mechanism involved in protein synthesis arrest in dormant Artemia involves translational control.
(9) The prime minister will announce that £400m from dormant bank accounts will be used to help finance the scheme, dubbed Big Society Capital.
(10) Radioactivity is incorporated into all fractions of the dormant spores and into CO(2) without a noticeable lag, indicating that most, if not all, of the enzymes for glucose utilization are present.
(11) Dormant neuroblasts are found adjacent to the neuropil in late embryos and early first instar larvae.
(12) This procedure makes it possible to fix adequately dormant spores and thus compare the ultrastructure and histochemistry of dormant spores with those of germinated spores.
(13) Low temperature incubation after heat shock or the presence of an autoinhibitor will return activated spores to the dormant state.
(14) If it gets no response - perhaps because the letters are going to an old address - it will stop sending letters and statements and class the account as dormant.
(15) NADH oxidase and cytochrome c oxidase were present in dormant spores, germinated spores, and vegetative cells at all stages after germination, but succinate cytochrome c reductase was not present in dormant spores.
(16) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(17) The 32P-labelled concatameric insert cut out from a plasmid pSPAv6.2(+), containing 6.2 copies of a full-length PSTV, was used to detect PSTV in dormant potato tubers by dot-blot hybridisation assay.
(18) Western blotting of dormant spore and vegetative cell fractions separated by SDS-PAGE demonstrated that GSLE is spore-specific and that greater than 90% of the GSLE is associated with the dormant spore cortex peptidoglycan as a phosphorylated 63kD pro-form, which could only be visualized after lysozyme digestion of the peptidoglycan.
(19) More importantly, we tested and verified the hypothesis that there is a relationship between concentrations of dormant, viable endospores of T. vulgaris in lake sediments and the extent of agriculture in the catchments of the lakes.
(20) Concentrations of cytochromes a, a(3), b, and c(+c(1)) increased during germination, outgrowth, and vegetative growth, but that of cytochrome o was highest in dormant spores.
Dormitory
Definition:
(n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
(n.) A burial place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
(2) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
(3) Forty-one (48%) of 86 students and 38 (28%) of 137 staff members in the two dormitories with the lowest functioning students were ill. Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli 0124:H30 was isolated from 20 persons including six staff members, 13 students, and the ill mother of one of the students.
(4) How else do you think I survived the dormitory at boarding school, or those working men's clubs?
(5) Thousands of Muslims attended the funeral for victims of the fire which broke out in an Islamic school dormitory.
(6) Dust and mites were significantly less in dormitories with linoleum than those with carpets (P less than .05 and .01, respectively).
(7) After visiting families all over his state, he built two female dormitories so that at least 100 women can stay at the school and be free from the responsibilities they have at home.
(8) Young people from outside Beijing often rent shared rooms, or even dormitory housing (as cheap as £30 or £40 a month), some of them in illegal underground basements .
(9) It covers more than a square mile and contains fast food outlets, stores and banks as well as the huge production buildings and dormitories.
(10) These 5 dishes were situated and remained in place for 60 minutes; the 4 interior ones were placed in different locations and always included the dormitory and living room.
(11) Measures of interpersonal behaviors exhibited by depressed college students toward their dormitory roommates were cluster analyzed, and this procedure produced 2 relatively distinct subgroups: a dependent, friendly, overgenerous type and an autocratic, competitive, aggressive, mistrustful type.
(12) Residents said the rebels, who rose up in April to demand independence from Kiev in the mainly Russian-speaking east, had dug trenches in downtown Donetsk outside the main university, where they have been living in student dormitories.
(13) Little more than three years after its birth in a Harvard University dormitory, the social networking website Facebook has become one of the most expensive internet start-ups in history, with a valuation of $15bn (£7.3bn) under a financing deal with the software group Microsoft .
(14) Within the Region substantial differences occur in death rates from heart disease among the five urban local government areas, the highest being in the coal-mining district of Cessnock and the lowest in the resort and dormitory area of Port Stephens.
(15) Although there are "hygiene rooms" in the dormitories, there is also "general hygiene room" with a corrective and punitive purpose.
(16) We didn’t expect the donations we got from people here, I was really overwhelmed,” she said, in a house that doubled as a temporary dormitory for mothers with young children before Slovenian authorities arranged for trains to continue straight over the border.
(17) Once they get off production line they live in cramped dormitories, often with strangers.
(18) He said the senator told him: “Be a good boy and do as you are told otherwise you will never go home.” A woman described an incident in which three men in their 30s, “scruffy looking with Jersey accents”, came into the dormitory one night and raped a girl in turn, egging each other on.
(19) Heading to their crowded dormitory after a night shift, several workers said pressure and the frequent scolding by management might be factors.
(20) Eric Goodby, 54, who runs an engraving and jewellery design firm with his father, Ken, 81, claimed Birmingham would be turned into a glorified dormitory town for London commuters.