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  • noun Plural form of domesticate.

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Examples

  • In short, what makes Cathay the most important translation into English in the past one hundred years is that Pound successfully "domesticates" and simultaneously "foreignises" these poems.

    languagehat.com: MAGUIRE ON TRANSLATION. 2005

  • Faded advertisements—for Coca-Cola and 7-Up, for Gulf and Esso gas—are a recurring theme, treated not as mass-produced objects intruding on the landscape but as objects that the land domesticates: a Wonder Bread sign slowly rusting in a field, a bleached Coca-Cola ad overgrown with vines.

    Photo-Op: Local Color 2012

  • And now, as Homo sapiens domesticates the new biotechnology, we are reviving the ancient pre-Darwinian practice of horizontal gene transfer, moving genes easily from microbes to plants and animals, blurring the boundaries between species.

    2008 January - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • Moreover, whereas most domesticates feed on widely available plant foods, cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they have a limited ability to digest anything but meata far rarer menu item.

    Hard wired to the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Such attributes suggest that whereas other domesticates were recruited from the wild by humans who bred them for specific tasks, cats most likely chose to live among humans because of opportunities they found for themselves.

    Hard wired to the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • And whereas other domesticates, like dogs, look quite distinct from their wild ancestors, the average domestic cat largely retains the wild body plan.

    Hard wired to the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • Man domesticates four-legged animals like cows and buffalos, and cows and buffalos are the food of tigers and lions and leopards.

    Questions & Answers - Valmik Thapar 2009

  • Also they used typical agricultural tools and materials to attend to the needs of the tree, especially when it is young and may be vulnerable to goats or such domesticates that may feed on it.

    Olives and People, Past and Present 2008

  • Matthew domesticates this to something more natural in a Jewish context, in which women did not normally have the legal power to initiate divorce.

    What Jesus Said and Did: 2) Divorce James F. McGrath 2008

  • It's an artifice that domesticates human pain and passion, that alludes to and improvises upon the world that's too much with us, but never lets the real deal come within a country mile.

    In Search Of A Shadow 2007

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