sedentary

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity.

   “The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.”

2. sıfat Living in a fixed geographical location; the opposite of nomadic.
3. sıfat Not moving much; sitting around.

   “[…]the Egyptians; whose Sages were not sedentary, scholastic Sophists, like the Grecian[…]”

4. sıfat Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.

   “Such restless revolution day by day Repeated, while the sedentary earth That better might with far less compass move[…]”

5. sıfat Caused by long sitting.

   “till length of years And sedentary numbness craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure.”

6. isim a sedentary person

   “The non-sedentaries rather do not without grain or rice, but the sedentaries have, in Wirth's table, not much less sheep and goats than the non-sedentaries. That is a reason to suppose that the sedentaries can cope without the non-sedentaries”