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in the wild en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (of animals, usually) Living and roaming freely in nature; not domesticated.
    • But during its lifetime, a single macaw left in the wild might yield more than 16 times as much in tourist income. 2008, G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman, Sustaining the Earth: an integrated approach, page 107:
  2. (figuratively) At large.
    • Many of the exploits discovered by cyber security researchers are often found and patched before the public is even made aware of the problem or actual exploits are found out in the wild. 2020 October 25, Marco Chiappetta, “Update Google Chrome And Chrome OS Now To Fix This Newly Discovered Exploit”, in Forbes:
    • A new, deadly type of virus has been detected in the wild. 2006, Wally Wang, Steal this computer book 4.0: what they won't tell you about the Internet:
  3. (figuratively) In practical use, as opposed to in a dictionary or wordlist.
    • This word is very rare; it may be difficult to find usages of it in the wild.
  4. (figuratively) By coincidence in the course of everyday life.
    • I'd seen this stock photo in memes a hundred times, but yesterday I saw it in the wild, illustrating a magazine article.

Relateds

wild type

Translations (22)

nl in het wild (not domesticated) · fr dans la nature (not domesticated) · tr doğada (not domesticated) · fi luonnossa (not domesticated) · pl na wolności (in language use) · yi אויף דער נאַטור (not domesticated) · de in freier Wildbahn (not domesticated) · nl in het wild (in language use) · ru в ди́кой приро́де (not domesticated) · fi vapaana (not domesticated) · pl na wolności (at large) · fi luonnossa (in language use) · fi vapaana (at large) · fi luonnossa (at large) · ru на во́ле (not domesticated) · yi אין שויס פֿון דער נאַטור (not domesticated) · nl in de natuur (not domesticated) · tr tabiatta (not domesticated) · de wildlebend (not domesticated) · de in freier Natur (not domesticated) · pt na natureza (not domesticated) · pl na wolności (not domesticated)