DORMANT
\dˈɔːmənt], \dˈɔːmənt], \d_ˈɔː_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of DORMANT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; - distinguished from couchant.
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A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; - distinguished from couchant.
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A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sleeping; at rest or not in action; in a sleeping posture; not used; leaning; the posture of an animal in a sleeping attitude, with the head resting on the fore paws. Dormant partner, a sleeping partner, a partner who takes no share in the active business of a partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a share in losses.
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A beam or sleeper tenoned into a girder, to support the ends of joists on both sides.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Inactive; sluggish; at rest; sleeping; quiescent; private; suspended; not exercised, as a dormant peerage.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
