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domesticate
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
domesticates; domesticated; domesticating
domesticates; domesticated; domesticating
Learner's definition of DOMESTICATE
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1
a : to breed or train (an animal) to need and accept the care of human beings : to tame (an animal)驯养，驯化（动物）
- Humans have domesticated dogs/cattle/chickens.人类已经驯化了狗/牛/鸡。
- Horses and oxen have been domesticated to work on farms.马和牛已经被驯养来干农活。
b : to grow (a plant) for human use栽培，种植（植物）
- Native Americans domesticated corn.美洲土著居民培植了玉米。
2
humorous : to train (someone) to behave in an appropriate way at home (such as by using good manners, being polite, being helpful, etc.)使在家中举止得体；使适应家庭生活
- She jokes that dogs are easier to domesticate than men.她开玩笑说狗比男人更容易驯服。
do·mes·ti·cate də-ˈme-sti-ˌkāt 
domesticated; domesticating
2
: to adapt (an animal or plant) over time from a wild or natural state especially by selective breeding to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans
The Asian equids, including the now-endangered Przewalski's horse, apparently provided the stock from which the horse was domesticated five to six thousand years ago.
Bruce J. MacFadden
Bruce J. MacFadden do·mes·ti·cate də-ˈme-sti-kət
-ˌkāt
: a domesticated (see domesticate entry 1 sense 2) animal or plant
Example Sentences
Verb Horses and oxen have been domesticated to work on farms. She jokes that dogs are easier to domesticate than men.
Recent Examples on the Web Fox News, 18 June 2022 This is the path our hunter-gatherer ancestors followed, gradually engineering local ecosystems to slowly domesticate favorable weeds or fruits, or animals from dogs to ducks that tended to hang around near human settlements. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022 Instead of constantly trying to domesticate my outdoor road bikes, why not ride something that had been bred for the specific requirements of its native environment and not have to switch between them? Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2020 And if humans can figure out a way to domesticate hyenas, then jackals and dingoes cannot be far behind. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Among the green forests and pristine mountain air, inmates wearing blue shirts and bluejeans would learn to battle wildfires, domesticate wild horses and clear trees for hiking trails. New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022 But Charles Darwin, who had spent his career struggling to domesticate the idea that life had emerged by a natural, gradual process, disavowed any inheritance of revolutionary or Francophile tendencies. Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021 Here is a current list of states which allow out-of-state businesses to domesticate within the state's borders. Allbusiness, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 Hillman came up with new theories about how Neolithic man foraged ancient wild wheat, barley and other grains and eventually learned to domesticate these wild strains. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021 Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020 The idea was first floated in 2016 when a group including University of São Paulo plant physiologist Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira Peres revealed a plan to re-domesticate tomatoes. Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019 Their brains are smaller than chimpanzees’, a shift also seen in many domesticates. John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019 So if ants are growing wet habitat-loving fungi, and remove them to a dry habitat, that's sort of like humans taking one of their domesticates out of its native range. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017 So if ants are growing wet habitat-loving fungi, and remove them to a dry habitat, that's sort of like humans taking one of their domesticates out of its native range. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017 See More
Verb
An unheralded entrepreneur born in Urbana, Ill., outwitted the titans of industry in the effort to domesticate the untamed American roads of the early 20th century. Fox News, 18 June 2022 This is the path our hunter-gatherer ancestors followed, gradually engineering local ecosystems to slowly domesticate favorable weeds or fruits, or animals from dogs to ducks that tended to hang around near human settlements. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2022 Instead of constantly trying to domesticate my outdoor road bikes, why not ride something that had been bred for the specific requirements of its native environment and not have to switch between them? Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2020 And if humans can figure out a way to domesticate hyenas, then jackals and dingoes cannot be far behind. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Among the green forests and pristine mountain air, inmates wearing blue shirts and bluejeans would learn to battle wildfires, domesticate wild horses and clear trees for hiking trails. New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022 But Charles Darwin, who had spent his career struggling to domesticate the idea that life had emerged by a natural, gradual process, disavowed any inheritance of revolutionary or Francophile tendencies. Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021 Here is a current list of states which allow out-of-state businesses to domesticate within the state's borders. Allbusiness, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021 Hillman came up with new theories about how Neolithic man foraged ancient wild wheat, barley and other grains and eventually learned to domesticate these wild strains. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021 Noun
Many of the herbivores grazing the mixed scrub are tough domesticates standing in as surrogates for extinct species. Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020 The idea was first floated in 2016 when a group including University of São Paulo plant physiologist Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira Peres revealed a plan to re-domesticate tomatoes. Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019 Their brains are smaller than chimpanzees’, a shift also seen in many domesticates. John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019 So if ants are growing wet habitat-loving fungi, and remove them to a dry habitat, that's sort of like humans taking one of their domesticates out of its native range. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017 So if ants are growing wet habitat-loving fungi, and remove them to a dry habitat, that's sort of like humans taking one of their domesticates out of its native range. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2017 See More 👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
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