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hybridize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd.aɪz/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English hybrid Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English hybridize From hybrid + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To form a mixture of any kind.
    • Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them. 2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development:
  2. (transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
  3. (intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
  4. (transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
  5. To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
  6. To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hybridizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hybridise alternative lexicographic
hybridized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hybridized Tense=Past lexicographic
hybridizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

dehybridize · rehybridize · unhybridized · hybridizable · hybridizer · cohybridize · nonhybridized · mishybridize · hybridizability · crosshybridize · autohybridize · posthybridized · prehybridize

Translations (11)

mn эрлийзжүүлэх (to cross-breed) · bg кръстосвам (to cross-breed) · pt hibridizar (to cross-breed) · cs křížit (to cross-breed) · es hibridar (to cross-breed) · mi whakamomorua (to cross-breed) · fr hybrider (to cross-breed) · ca hibridar (to cross-breed) · ro hibridiza (to cross-breed) · bg хибридизирам (to cross-breed) · tr hibritleştirmek (to cross-breed)