domestication
IPA: dʌmɛstʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
- The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.
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Examples of "domestication" in Sentences
- - pens, eggshells, remains, etc., further suggest long-term domestication localized in the southwestern United States.
- Hogs are a funny animal years of domestication is thrwn out the window once they go wild; teeth (tusks), and thick body hair begins to grow again.
- MAVUSO MBHEKISENI: People were educated, through what we call domestication, that they should love one party, because that party gave them-will give them freedom.
- What we call domestication of the dog was the capture in one or more populations of dogwolves of mutations that affected the animal's physiology and thus the way it interacted with the world.
- "It is only through the" domestication "of NEPAD in our national and regional development plans, and through our collective efforts, that we will be able to translate the vision and objectives of this African-owned process into a prosperous reality."
- It undoubtedly gave him his original popularity, and we need not despise it now, inasmuch as it makes less tedious the task of ascertaining and justifying his true place in the further "domestication" -- if only in domesticities too often mean and grimy -- of the French novel.
- Elisée Reclus in his very interesting paper La Grande Famille7 gives support to the idea that the so-called domestication of animals did not originally arise from any forcible subjugation of them by man, but from a natural amity with them which grew up in the beginning from common interests, pursuits and affections.
- Elisee Reclus in his very interesting paper La Grande Famille (1) gives support to the idea that the so-called domestication of animals did not originally arise from any forcible subjugation of them by man, but from a natural amity with them which grew up in the beginning from common interests, pursuits and affections.
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