different between hibernate vs wintering

English

Alternative forms

• hivernate, hybernate (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin h?bern?tus, from h?bern?re, from h?bernus (“winter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?b??ne?t/

Verb

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.

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.

Antonyms

• aestivate, estivate

Related terms

• hibernal
• hibernation
• hibernator

Translations

See also

• oversummer
• overwinter

Anagrams

• breathe in, inbreathe

Latin

Verb

h?bern?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of h?bern?

English

Verb

wintering

1. present participle of winter

Noun

wintering (plural winterings)

1. The act of staying at a place throughout the winter.
   • 2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia

     Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.

Anagrams

• enwriting