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DORMAN
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old English personal name Dēormann, composed of Old English dēor (see Dear) + mann ‘man’. This surname became established in Ireland in the 17th century; sometimes it is found as a variant of Dornan.German (Dormann) : occupational name for a doorkeeper or gatekeeper or topographic name for someone who lived by the gate of a town or city. Compare Dorer, Dorwart.Hungarian (Dormán) : from the old secular personal name Dormán.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained.
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Spanish
From the Spanish name of a dormant volcano in Ecuador, CORAZÓN means "heart."
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a.
Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
v. t.
To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties.
n.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
a.
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
v. i.
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
v. i.
To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
n.
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
a.
In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
a.
A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
v. t.
Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.
a. & adv.
In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
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.
v. t.
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
v. i.
To retire into a den, or hole, and lie dormant in winter; to retreat and lie hid.
a.
Inactive; dormant
n.
The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
n.
One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis.