Exotic vs Domestic - What's the difference?
exotic | domestic |
Foreign, especially in an exciting way.
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
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Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
(biology) An organism that is exotic to an environment.
An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
(physics) Any exotic particle.
Of or relating to the home.
* 1994 , George Whitmore, Getting Rid of Robert'' in ''Violet Quill :
Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.
(of an animal) Kept by someone, for example as a farm animal or a pet.
* 1890 , US Bureau of Animal Industry, Annual report v 6/7, 1889/90
Internal to a specific country.
* 1996', Robert O. Keohane, Helen V. Milner, ''Internationalization and '''Domestic Politics :
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, title= A house servant; a maid; a household worker.
* Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A. - New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestic s.
A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent
* 2005:' Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, ''Domestic Violence in Whatcom County'' (read on the Whatcom County website at on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal ' domestic s” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
As adjectives the difference between exotic and domestic
is that exotic is exotic while domestic is of or relating to the home.As a noun domestic is
a house servant; a maid; a household worker.exotic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
citation, passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* exotically * exoticness * exotic atom * exotic baryon * exotic cheroot * exotic dancer * exotic sphereNoun
(en noun)- Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics .
Derived terms
* invasive exoticExternal links
* (projectlink) * ----domestic
English
(wikipedia domestic)Alternative forms
* domestick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- “Dan’s not as domestic as you," I commented rather nastily.
- It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals.
- The proportion of international economic flows relative to domestic ones.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}