To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.

To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects.

To pass the winter in an inactive, dormant or sleep-like condition.

Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including composition, association, inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation or bytecode processing.

Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java

Hibernate is the most popular object/relational mapping and query solution for Java, and will be used in the Online Commons system. More information about can be found at the Hibernate website.

The action of transitioning the machine into a no power state, in a way such that the current operating state can be restored in the future without a full initialization sequence.

To save the current work state into the hard disk and turns off computer. It is convenient to place your computer in Hibernate when you do not use the computer for a while.

This allows computer users to save the contents of their computer's memory to disk before shutting down the PC. When restarted, the contents are read back...