Hibernation vs Coward - What's the difference?
hibernation | coward |
(biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter.
(computing) A standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
(space) To put a spacecraft in a state of minimum power consumption
A person who lacks courage.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Cowardly.
*, II.17:
*:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
* Shakespeare
* Prior
(heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
English words suffixed with -ard
As a noun hibernation
is (biology) a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter.As a proper noun coward is
.hibernation
English
(wikipedia hibernation)Alternative forms
* hybernationNoun
Derived terms
* deep space hibernationAntonyms
* aestivationcoward
English
Noun
(en noun)- He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.
Synonyms
* chicken * See alsoDerived terms
* cowardly * cowardiceAdjective
(en adjective)- He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
- Invading fears repel my coward joy.