(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.
Fallow
Definition:
(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
(n.) Plowed land.
(n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
(n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dytiscidae, Anisoptera, and Zygoptera were more abundant in fallow or mature fields.
(2) The fallow-deer is less discussed because the low number of investigations.
(3) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(4) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(5) ZTJ 151, S. saprophyticus SS 877, Enterococcus faecium EF1 and E. faecalis EFG2 were isolated from the rumen wall and contents of lambs, calves and fallow deer, Enterococcus gallinarum EG10 and E. avium EA12 were isolated from the caecum of Japanese quail.
(6) For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
(7) Similar inclusion bodies were also found in the ruminal epithelium of fallow deer subjected to overfeeding by supplementary food.
(8) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(9) The HIT method was used to examine blood serums of the game in Moravia (roebuck, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, brown hare) for the presence of antibodies to arboviruses of these groups: alphavirus (Sindbis-SIN), flavivirus (West Nile-WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Bunyamwera (Tahyna-TAH, Calovo-CVO).
(10) The humus synthesis processes were most active in the wheat and lucerne plots, they were less effective in the fallow and virgin soils.
(11) Four adult male fallow deer were investigated for 1-4 consecutive years to study the relationships between annual changes in testis volume, sperm quality and antler status.
(12) Weinstein knows how to push a movie all the way to the top and after a few fallow years he's rediscovered his magic touch and found the funds to put his money where his mouth is.
(13) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(14) An adult, captive European spotted fallow deer (Cervus dama) was submitted for necropsy due to sudden death.
(15) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) A policy of "set aside", where farmers are paid to leave land fallow, has attempted to remedy this, but overproduction persists.
(18) Though fallow deer is considered very resistant to infectious diseases and parasites, diseases of different kind occur in enclosed pastures.
(19) These results provide good evidence of the correlation between low birthweight and perinatal mortality in fallow deer on Australian deer farms.
(20) The allele frequencies allow a clear discrimination between the hybrid population and the red deer population, whereas the fallow deer are fixed for the allele which is most common in red deer.