Domesticate vs Naturalize - What's the difference?
domesticate | naturalize |
To make domestic.
To make fit for domestic life.
To adapt to live with humans.
To adapt to live with humans.
To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen
To acclimatize an animal or plant
* Hawthorne
To make natural
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones
(linguistics) To make (a word) a natural part of the language.
As verbs the difference between domesticate and naturalize
is that domesticate is to make domestic while naturalize is to grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.As a noun domesticate
is an animal or plant that has been domesticated.domesticate
English
Verb
(domesticat)- The Russian claims to have successfully domesticated foxes.
- Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
naturalize
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Alternative forms
* naturaliseVerb
(en-verb)- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
- Custom naturalizes labour or study.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
