domesticate

Definition von domesticate im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To adapt to live with humans
The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.; To make domestic; To make fit for domestic life; To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created; An animal or plant that has been domesticated; {v} to make domestic or tame; When people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets. We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting. = tame. to make an animal able to work for people or live with them as a pet tame; {f} domesticize, tame an animal, house-train, accustom to life with mankind; adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"; To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant; make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"; To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self; overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"; adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil; To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word
domesticated: Tame, naturalized
domesticated: Simple past tense and past participle of domesticate
domestication: {n} the act of taming, state of being tamed
To domesticate: domiciliate
domesticated: converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize"
domesticated: accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it
domesticated: (of an animal (especially a pet)): tame or naturalized
domesticated: {s} tamed, housebroken, trained; accustomed to life with mankind
domesticated: Someone who is domesticated willingly does household tasks such as cleaning. Mum wasn't very domesticated
domesticated: accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"
domesticates: plural of domesticate
domesticating: present participle of domesticate
domestication: the process of taming something wild
domestication: A farming technique in which animals, such as: Dog Sheep Cattle Pigs Goats Horse are captured, controlled and bred (often selectively), to provide food, clothing, transport and power The term may also apply to agriculture with crops and plants such as: Wheat Barley and in other parts of the world: rice, millet, maize, beans, and potatoes
domestication: 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
domestication: The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals
domestication: accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication"
domestication: accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication" adaptation to intimate association with human beings
domestication: The process of breeding for a given desirable characteristic found in the wild so as to increase, enhance and stabilise its occurrence in cultivated plants (Robinson, 1980)
domestication: Process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into forms more accommodating to the interests of people. In its strictest sense, it refers to the initial stage of human mastery of wild animals and plants. The fundamental distinction of domesticated animals and plants from their wild ancestors is that they are created by human labour to meet specific requirements or whims and are adapted to the conditions of continuous care people maintain for them. A variety of animals have been domesticated for food (e.g., cattle, chickens, pigs), clothing (e.g., sheep, silkworms), transportation and labour (e.g., camels, donkeys, horses), and pleasure (e.g., cats, dogs). See also breeding; selection
domestication: The process of altering, through directed selection, the genetic makeup of a species so as to increase the species’ usefulness to humans
domestication: the process by which plants, animals or microbes selected from the wild adapt to a special habitat created for them by humans
domestication: {i} process of domesticating; process of taming, process of training; process of accustoming an animal to life with mankind
domestication: A process by which human beings tame wild animals and change the nature of plants Native Americans tamed wolves and in doing so created the dog They also cultivated some plants, eventually changing the plant's natural distribution, seed size, and its ability to reproduce
domestication: The core of the notion of domestication is the control of reproduction For animals this means determining which animals are kept and used as breeding stock For plants this means the selection of some of the seed from one harvest to sow in order to produce the next harvest
domestication: – the process of taming or making usable for humans
domestication: Making something suitable for human use such as taming wild animals or farming wild plants
domestication: The collection from the wild state and the use in agriculture of plants having desirable traits
domestication: adaptation to intimate association with human beings
domestication: when humans intervene in the breeding patterns of plants or animals
domestication: the attribute of having been domesticated