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Meaning of sedentary | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i

Definitions

a sedentary person

Equivalents

العربية حضري مقيم
Azərbaycanca oturaq
Беларуская аселы
Български седящ
Català sedentari
Čeština sedavý usedlý
Ελληνικά καθιστικός
Español sedentario
Français sédentaire
Gaeilge neamhaistreach
Magyar ülő
Bahasa Indonesia sedenter
Italiano sedentario
Kurdî tembel
Nederlands sedentair stilzittend
Português sedentário
Română sedentar
Українська осілий

Examples

“Endosomatic electrodermal activity (skin potential level and skin potential response) as an indirect indicator of sympathetic nervous system activity was measured in 35 sedentary male students and 22 trained athletes of two groups during resting and after an acute exercise. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of skin potential parameters between sedentaries and trained athletes before and after the acute exercise in bicycle ergometer.”
“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”
“With the decline and eventual downfall of the south, it was their relationship with the Arab sedentaries of the north which assumed greater importance;”
“Smiths are not nomadic among the nomads and sedentary among the sedentaries, nor half-nomadic among the nomads, half-sedentary among sedentaries.”
“"These baths are great both for active people like sportsmen, as well as for sedentaries who spend too much time behind their desks," explains Dicioni Lino”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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