Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To produce hybrids; crossbreed.
- intransitive verb To form base pairs between complementary regions of two strands of DNA that were not originally paired.
- intransitive verb To cause to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to interbreed and thus produce hybrids.
- Hence—2. To form or construct in a hybrid manner, as words.
- To produce a hybrid or hybrids; cross or interbreed, as two different varieties or species of plants or animals.
- Also spelled
hybridise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
- intransitive verb (Biol.) To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
cross-breed animals or plants to formhybrids - verb transitive to construct a hybrid
word from elements of differentlanguages - verb physics to
combine atomic orbitals mathematically to formhybrid orbitals - verb biochemistry to combine
complementary subunits of multiplebiological macromolecules
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
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Examples
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Labaree says that reformers could play a constructive role if they listened to David Tyack and Larry Cuban and not try to implement their policies in a pure form, but allow teachers to "hybridize" them.
John Thompson: Don't Go Off Rootin' and Tootin' and There Won't Be No Cuttin' nor Shootin' John Thompson 2011
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Labaree says that reformers could play a constructive role if they listened to David Tyack and Larry Cuban and not try to implement their policies in a pure form, but allow teachers to "hybridize" them.
John Thompson: Don't Go Off Rootin' and Tootin' and There Won't Be No Cuttin' nor Shootin' John Thompson 2011
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They have taken the next step to hybridize key elements of Facebook and Wikipedia and are executing on it very well so far.
Bill Aulet: The 10 Biggest Trends In Silicon Valley Bill Aulet 2011
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Interested in what happens when cultures merge and hybridize, Couper doesn't hesitate to combine eclectic cultural products.
John Seed: Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas John Seed 2011
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They have taken the next step to hybridize key elements of Facebook and Wikipedia and are executing on it very well so far.
Bill Aulet: The 10 Biggest Trends In Silicon Valley Bill Aulet 2011
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They have taken the next step to hybridize key elements of Facebook and Wikipedia and are executing on it very well so far.
Bill Aulet: The 10 Biggest Trends In Silicon Valley Bill Aulet 2011
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Should I hybridize my application to move some part of functionality to the public cloud while keeping other components on an internal private cloud?
Tony Greenberg: Key Cloud Migration Decisions Tony Greenberg 2011
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Should I hybridize my application to move some part of functionality to the public cloud while keeping other components on an internal private cloud?
Tony Greenberg: Key Cloud Migration Decisions Tony Greenberg 2011
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They have taken the next step to hybridize key elements of Facebook and Wikipedia and are executing on it very well so far.
Bill Aulet: The 10 Biggest Trends In Silicon Valley Bill Aulet 2011
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Interested in what happens when cultures merge and hybridize, Couper doesn't hesitate to combine eclectic cultural products.
John Seed: Matthew Couper: A Devotional Painter in Las Vegas John Seed 2011
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