冬眠 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- hibernate verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
- hibernation noun A state of greatly reduced activity and metabolism that some animals enter during winter.
Senses
冬眠 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.
- hibernation (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
hibernate — full definition
- verb For an animal to spend winter in a dormant, low-energy state.
- verb For a computer to enter a power-saving mode that saves its current state to disk.
hibernation — full definition
- noun A state of greatly reduced activity and metabolism that some animals enter during winter.
- noun A computer power-saving mode that saves the current session to disk before shutting down.