xenization

Noun

xenization (uncountable)

1. The borrowing and integration of foreign linguistic elements into a language.
   • 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...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...2017, Vasilij Moskvin, “On stylistic devices as style elevators in the Russian language”, in Russian Linguistics, volume 41
2. The process of integrating an organism into an environment containing other types of organisms.
   • 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...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. The act of spending time in a foreign culture.
   • 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...2011, Alex McCann Johnson, Vindico: I Am Liberation, page 48