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
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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:
- (transitive) To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
- (intransitive) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
- (transitive) To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
- To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
- To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)