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Definition of domestication in English: domesticationnoundəmɛstɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)ndəˌmɛstəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n mass noun1The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm. domestication of animals lies at the heart of human civilization Example sentencesExamples - Through domestication, humans turned dogs into tools to help them dominate nature.
- In addition to exponentially increasing certain animal populations, the process of domestication has changed the very nature of its subjects.
- Perhaps respect requires leaving animals alone in the wild and not producing animals for domestication.
- Since the domestication of dogs and the beginning of agriculture, humans have shaped the evolution of many forms of life.
- But this perspective is not universally shared; other thinkers argue that domestication has effectively bred the wildness out of animals.
- Domestication did not violate nature, disrupt evolution, or enslave animals, but was itself evolutionary.
- The Asian elephant is losing ground every day - to habitat loss, timber projects, capture for domestication, clashes with humans, and disease.
- Just as people once domesticated cattle, sheep, and chickens, so, it is claimed, it is the turn of prawns and reef fish to enter an era of rapid domestication.
- The horse also survived, but only through its domestication and preservation overseas.
- For example, the domestication of cattle did not begin as a simple prospect of milk and meat.
- 1.1 The cultivation of a plant for food.
this book covers the evolution and domestication of six important cereal crops Example sentencesExamples - Early Woodland domestication specifically has been identified at sites within or near the Mid-Ohio Valley.
- Domestication led to the emergence, as early as the 6th millennium bc, of cultivated barley with firmly attached grains.
- Coffee spread widely throughout the Arab world in the first century after its domestication.
- He reverses the usual humancentric perspective, asking what domestication has meant to the apple tree, the potato, and the tulip.
- The plant has a fascinating history of origin and domestication, and has been intimately involved in human history.
- Native Americans certainly altered the landscape with the use of fire, land cultivation, plant domestication, and hunting.
- Because researchers have focused their analyses on plant domestication and cultivation, questions related to wood use have received less attention.
- One of the earliest methods used to increase yield and hardiness was the domestication of plants.
- In the Ohio Valley, a general pattern has been documented of intensification of the gathering of plant species leading to their management and eventual domestication in the context of gardens.
- The subjects covered include the origin of the cotton plant and its domestication, the history of the world cotton industry, and a history of cultivar development in the U.S.
- 1.2humorous The process of making someone fond of and good at home life and the tasks that it involves.
I won't say it was an easy change, but my domestication was a much needed one Example sentencesExamples - What are we to make of a woman who sells female domestication in a honey-hued voice but behind the cameras acts like a tough-as-nails male CEO?
- She picks out the Luddite unrest to make it seem that the danger of working-class crowds actually engendered the need for middle-class female domestication.
- Ana's world is pitted against the dull monochrome of conventionality - marriage, domestication - and becomes the source of energy both for Ana as character and the central leitmotif of the story.
- Despite her understanding of the pitfalls of domestication, however, she never gives up her claims to freedom or to a home for her family.
- True to the formula, Bond so overwhelms her that she trades in her independent if empty existence and accepts domestication.
- First off, the man's cured himself of his unfortunate bout with domestication, and the rest of this album grooves, grooves, grooves.
- Armstrong's analysis indicates the particular deployment of a new ideology of (English) bourgeois morality centring on the strict domestication of women.
- The Grammys are the first step in the singer's domestication, of his certain transmogrification from hate-filled bad boy to lovable, safe, pop dreamboat.
- The crisis provoked by her burning the meat heightens her resentful awareness of loss of individuality to which the domestication of marriage has subjected her.
- He argues that the movie marks the beginning of Hepburn's domestication, with her own consent and even collaboration.
Definition of domestication in US English: domesticationnoundəˌmɛstəˈkeɪʃ(ə)ndəˌmestəˈkāSH(ə)n 1The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm. domestication of animals lies at the heart of human civilization Example sentencesExamples - The Asian elephant is losing ground every day - to habitat loss, timber projects, capture for domestication, clashes with humans, and disease.
- In addition to exponentially increasing certain animal populations, the process of domestication has changed the very nature of its subjects.
- Just as people once domesticated cattle, sheep, and chickens, so, it is claimed, it is the turn of prawns and reef fish to enter an era of rapid domestication.
- For example, the domestication of cattle did not begin as a simple prospect of milk and meat.
- Domestication did not violate nature, disrupt evolution, or enslave animals, but was itself evolutionary.
- The horse also survived, but only through its domestication and preservation overseas.
- Perhaps respect requires leaving animals alone in the wild and not producing animals for domestication.
- Through domestication, humans turned dogs into tools to help them dominate nature.
- But this perspective is not universally shared; other thinkers argue that domestication has effectively bred the wildness out of animals.
- Since the domestication of dogs and the beginning of agriculture, humans have shaped the evolution of many forms of life.
- 1.1 The cultivation of a plant for food.
this book covers the evolution and domestication of six important cereal crops Example sentencesExamples - Coffee spread widely throughout the Arab world in the first century after its domestication.
- Early Woodland domestication specifically has been identified at sites within or near the Mid-Ohio Valley.
- One of the earliest methods used to increase yield and hardiness was the domestication of plants.
- In the Ohio Valley, a general pattern has been documented of intensification of the gathering of plant species leading to their management and eventual domestication in the context of gardens.
- The plant has a fascinating history of origin and domestication, and has been intimately involved in human history.
- Domestication led to the emergence, as early as the 6th millennium bc, of cultivated barley with firmly attached grains.
- The subjects covered include the origin of the cotton plant and its domestication, the history of the world cotton industry, and a history of cultivar development in the U.S.
- Because researchers have focused their analyses on plant domestication and cultivation, questions related to wood use have received less attention.
- He reverses the usual humancentric perspective, asking what domestication has meant to the apple tree, the potato, and the tulip.
- Native Americans certainly altered the landscape with the use of fire, land cultivation, plant domestication, and hunting.
- 1.2humorous The process of making someone fond of and good at home life and the tasks that it involves.
I won't say it was an easy change, but my domestication was a much needed one Example sentencesExamples - What are we to make of a woman who sells female domestication in a honey-hued voice but behind the cameras acts like a tough-as-nails male CEO?
- First off, the man's cured himself of his unfortunate bout with domestication, and the rest of this album grooves, grooves, grooves.
- She picks out the Luddite unrest to make it seem that the danger of working-class crowds actually engendered the need for middle-class female domestication.
- He argues that the movie marks the beginning of Hepburn's domestication, with her own consent and even collaboration.
- Despite her understanding of the pitfalls of domestication, however, she never gives up her claims to freedom or to a home for her family.
- True to the formula, Bond so overwhelms her that she trades in her independent if empty existence and accepts domestication.
- Armstrong's analysis indicates the particular deployment of a new ideology of (English) bourgeois morality centring on the strict domestication of women.
- The Grammys are the first step in the singer's domestication, of his certain transmogrification from hate-filled bad boy to lovable, safe, pop dreamboat.
- Ana's world is pitted against the dull monochrome of conventionality - marriage, domestication - and becomes the source of energy both for Ana as character and the central leitmotif of the story.
- The crisis provoked by her burning the meat heightens her resentful awareness of loss of individuality to which the domestication of marriage has subjected her.
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