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語源

From Latin hībernātus, from hībernāre, from hībernus (“winter”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhaɪbə(r)ˌneɪt/
  • (Southern England) IPA: [ˈhɑɪbəˌnɛɪt]
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhaɪbəɹˌneɪt/, [ˈhäɪbɚˌneɪt]
• (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA: /ˈhʌɪbərˌneɪt/
  • (Ontario) IPA: [ˈhəɪbɚˌne(ɪ)t]

動詞

hibernate (third-person singular simple present hibernates, present participle hibernating, simple past and past participle hibernated)

1. (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.

   Coordinate terms: estivate, brumate

   Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.

2. (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
3. (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
   • 2001, Microsoft Corp, Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries:

     Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.

派生語

関連する語

参考

• oversummer
• overwinter

アナグラム

• breathe in, inbreathe