Meaning of domestication in English:
domestication
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noun
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’- ‘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.’
- ‘The horse also survived, but only through its domestication and preservation overseas.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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 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.’
- ‘Perhaps respect requires leaving animals alone in the wild and not producing animals for domestication.’
- 1.1The cultivation of a plant for food.‘this book covers the evolution and domestication of six important cereal crops’
- ‘The plant has a fascinating history of origin and domestication, and has been intimately involved in human history.’
- ‘One of the earliest methods used to increase yield and hardiness was the domestication of plants.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘He reverses the usual humancentric perspective, asking what domestication has meant to the apple tree, the potato, and the tulip.’
- ‘Coffee spread widely throughout the Arab world in the first century after its domestication.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- 1.2 humorous 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’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Despite her understanding of the pitfalls of domestication, however, she never gives up her claims to freedom or to a home for her family.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘True to the formula, Bond so overwhelms her that she trades in her independent if empty existence and accepts domestication.’
- ‘He argues that the movie marks the beginning of Hepburn's domestication, with her own consent and even collaboration.’
- ‘First off, the man's cured himself of his unfortunate bout with domestication, and the rest of this album grooves, grooves, grooves.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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?’
- ‘Armstrong's analysis indicates the particular deployment of a new ideology of (English) bourgeois morality centring on the strict domestication of women.’
- ‘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.’
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