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COLONIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
Example:
the British colonization of America
Synonyms:
colonisation; colonization; settlement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("colonization" is a kind of...):
constitution; establishment; formation; organisation; organization (the act of forming or establishing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colonization"):
population (the act of populating (causing to live in a place))
Derivation:
colonize (settle as colonists or establish a colony (in))
colonize (settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world)
Context examples:
CLCA2 may play a role in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis and in cancer metastasis to the lung, mediating vascular arrest and colonization.
(Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel-2, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists themselves have proposed terraforming to enable the long-term colonization of Mars.
(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)
Denotes a person having origins in one of the indigenous peoples of North America, who lived on the continent prior to the European colonization.
(American Indian, NCI Thesaurus)
The naturally-occurring bacterial components in this dietary supplement may improve digestion and help maintain adequate colonization of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract by modulating the composition of the normal microflora.
(Beta-glucan/Lactobacillus casei/Bifidobacterium lactis-based Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)
Resisting hydrolysis by intestinal digestive enzymes, inulin and oligofructose serve as growth media and energy substrates for bifidobacteria in the colon; beneficial colonic commensal bacteria such as bifidobacteria may inhibit the colonization of the intestine by pathogenic bacteria and have been implicated to inhibit colon carcinogenesis.
(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Thesaurus)
His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There were a dozen requests for autographs—he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Upon oral ingestion, Lp 299 adheres to the intestinal mucosa, modulates the composition of the normal microflora, helps maintain adequate colonization of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and improves digestion and metabolism.
(Lactobacillus plantarum strain 299, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon colonization of the GI tract, the probiotic bacteria form a protective barrier, interfere with the attachment of pathogenic bacteria and other harmful substances and may bind to and degrade carcinogens.
(Live Freeze-Dried Lactic Acid Bacteria Probiotic, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon oral administration, the bacteria in this probiotic supplement help maintain adequate colonization of the GI tract and modulate the composition of the normal microflora.
(Lactobacillus acidophilus/Streptococcus thermophilus/Bifidobacterium lactis/L. rhamnosus/B. longum/B. bifidum-based Probiotic Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)
