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Ruhezustand einnehmen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hibernate verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.

Senses

Ruhezustand einnehmen is used for these senses in English:

  • hibernate (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
  • hibernate (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.

hibernate — full definition

  1. verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
  2. verb For a computer to enter a power-saving mode that saves its current state to disk.
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