Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to change from one place or position to another; displace.
- transitive verb To transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position; cause to undergo translocation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to change place, or to exchange places; put in a different relative position; displace; dislocate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
displace , or move from one place to another. - verb transitive, of a chromosomal segment To cause to undergo
translocation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move from one place to another, especially of wild animals
- verb transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position
Etymologies
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Examples
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Much-publicized progress so far includes the restocking of wildlife species in Mozambique, involving, for example, a US$20-million project to "translocate" elephants from South Africa's Kruger Park to Mozambique's Limpopo National Park (formerly Coutada 16).
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Burying plastic bottles in the heathland may seem a little strange to some of our visitors, but the experts have found that this is the best way to translocate the spiders, said Branston.
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Research has shown that it also does not translocate to streams and other water sources.
Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009
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Research has shown that it also does not translocate to streams and other water sources.
Is it safe to eat fish especially catfish from farm ponds that hold runoff from crop fields? 2009
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Upon activation, these transcription factors translocate to the nucleus of the cell, where they attach to receptor sites on the genes and upregulate, or turn on, their expression.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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– The Nature Conservancy has reintroduced this endangered bird in Central Florida, with funding used to monitor birds released in 2007 and translocate 10 more birds to the site in 2008.
Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund Now Accepting Applications for 2009 | The Disney Blog 2009
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It's a fancy way of letting you translocate ledges and monsters into more head-stomp convenient configurations.
Snapshot Greg Tannahill 2009
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The process has speeded up in recent decades, as the Chinese government is eager to translocate people to places like this from the crowded eastern portion of the country.
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Intense management efforts have helped build up the populations of the Seychelles magpie robin on Frégate Island, and to translocate it to other islands.
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As for the lynx, "" they don't translocate as well as other species, '' says Stephen Torbit, a senior scientist at the National Wildlife Foundation.
Lynx To The Past 2008
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