(a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
(n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southern hybridization analysis showed that the cloned gene was derived from F. dormitator chromosomal DNA.
(2) Ivan's predecessor, Ivan III, had imported an Italian Renaissance architect, Aristotele Fioravanti, to design his Cathedral of the Dormition at the Kremlin (not that it really shows), but historians have scrabbled around to find a precedent for St Basil's.
(3) The beta-1,3-glucanase (1,3-beta-D-glucan glucanohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.6) gene from Flavobacterium dormitator var.
(4) In the E. coli cells, endo-beta-1,3-glucanase I was also formed by a proteolytic digestion of endo-beta-1,3-glucanase II during the cultivation as in F. dormitator.
(5) The purified enzymes were demonstrated to be identical with a lytic endo-beta-1,3-glucanase II and a nonlytic endo-beta-1,3-glucanase I from F. dormitator from their enzymological and immunological properties.
(6) The polyamine distributions of four other species originally included in Flavobacterium (F. acidurans, "F. dormitator," "F. tirrenicum," and Halomonas halmophila), whose taxonomic positions are or were uncertain, were different from the group mentioned above.
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.