xenization

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noun

The borrowing and integration of foreign linguistic elements into a language.

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Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounxenization (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe borrowing and integration of foreign linguistic elements into a language.
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    The article deals with the basic categories of the elevated style and the tactics to implement them: 1) techniques that help to avoid the associations that do not correspond to the idea of the beautiful; 2) various types of amplification that make speech ample. The techniques of the elevated pronunciation style form a system that is integrated into the mechanism of elevating. Such techniques are slow speech tempo, as well as the xenization of pronunciation by means of orthoepic borrowings from culturally prestigious languages.

    2016, ТН Колокольцева, “Разговорная речь и разговорный стиль интернет-эпохи (English abstract)”, in Известия Волгоградского государственного

    As well as this, the paper depicts the tactics surrounding their implementation in speech: 1) transfers that connect the inner form of the nominative units with the spheres of these categories; 2) ways of renaming (xenization, archaizing and others), that remove the association of the everyday and other associations that are incompatible with the idea of beauty from the notions; 3) various types of amplification which make the speech discursive, which is in line with the quantitative assessment of the category of the sublime (I. Kant).

    2017, Vasilij Moskvin, “On stylistic devices as style elevators in the Russian language”, in Russian Linguistics, volume 41

    The core point of the theory of exoglossy is the concept of a “pendulum”, which assumes compensation for deviations of the language system towards a certain pole: the degree of xenization (integration of Foreign elements) corresponds to the degree of the subsequent archaization of the recipient language system (preservation of its own elements) and vice versa

    2019, Yuriy V. Kobenko, Petr I. Kostomarov, Elena V. Shitkova, Anastasia V. Moreva, Natalia A. Karpova, Elena S. Riabova, Svetlana S. Taydonova, “Dynamics of development and approaches to the temporal periodization of the standard German idiom”, in AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 2135
  2. uncountablebiologyThe process of integrating an organism into an environment containing other types of organisms.

    For re-xenization, the axenic cells were re-associated with the bacterial flora obtained from the original xenic cultures, and grown in LYSGM as above [18].

    2008 August, Chandrama Mukherjee, C. Graham Clar, Anuradha Lohia, “Entamoeba Shows Reversible Variation in Ploidy under Different Growth Conditions and between Life Cycle Phases”, in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, volume 2, number 8, page 2
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    A.xenization was accomplished by rinsing the worms 3 times in sterile distilled water, followed by their transfer to 10 ml. antibiotic solution (1,000 units potassium penicillin G and 100 y streptomycin sulphate per ml.);

    1961, JD Costlow -, “Fluctuations in hormone activity in Brachyura larvae”, in Nature

    Another possible mechanism to explain the 'healthy carrier' state would be through a transient decrease in amebic virulence, and this possibility is suggested by the common observation of loss of virulence in prolonged axenic cultures of pathogenic strains of E. histolytica, which is reversible by different means (eg. xenization of the cultures, treatment with cholesterol, or with serum complement, and passage through liver).

    1994 January, I Montfort, R Pérez-Tamayo, “Is phagocytosis related to virulence in Entamoeba histolytica Schaudinn, 1903?”, in Parasitology Today, volume 10, number 7

    Antonyms: axenization

  3. uncountableThe act of spending time in a foreign culture.

    Already accepting The life of an unclear face Her only purpose is xenization

    2020, A Nameless Person: Poetry
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    Xenization is the act of traveling alone as a stranger in a foreign land. When one writer was 17, he traveled alone to Europe for the first time, to wash dishes in Gstaad, Switzerland, for the summer.

    2019 March 19, Bill Heavey, “A Case for Taking a Solo Trip”, in Men's Journal

    He noticed that Logan was smiling at his dullness and asked, "What are you used to doing for fun?" “Well, obviously not traveling in xenization like you! I don't actually do much. I have fun and stuff, but I try to stay at home and do what needs to be done. Plus, my roommate and my godson keep me occupied."

    2011, Alex McCann Johnson, Vindico: I Am Liberation, page 48

    In the 19th century a period of xenization was encouraged in young adulthood of the monied classes as a key part of education to gain a worldly perspective.

    2019 November 4, “Word of the Week”, in Song Bar

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe process of integrating an organism into an environment containing other types of organisms.

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