hybrid

[ hahy-brid ]

/ ˈhaɪ brɪd /

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noun

the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.

a person or group of persons produced by the interaction or crossbreeding of two unlike cultures, traditions, etc.

anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds: a hybrid of the academic and business worlds.

a word composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as television, whose components come from Greek and Latin.

something that is powered by more than one source of power: a wind-solar hybrid to generate electricity.
a car or other vehicle that combines an internal-combustion engine with one or more electric motors powered by a battery: She says she's proud to be driving a hybrid.

adjective

bred from two distinct breeds, varieties, species, or genera.

composite; formed or composed of heterogeneous elements.

composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as a word.

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6 purebred, thoroughbred.

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Origin of hybrid

First recorded in 1595–1605, hybrid is from the Latin word hybrida, hibrida “a crossbred animal”

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6. Hybrid, mongrel refer to animals or plants of mixed origin. Hybrid is the scientific term: hybrid corn; a hybrid variety of sheep. Mongrel, used originally of dogs to denote the offspring of crossings of different breeds, is now extended to other animals and to plants; it is usually deprecatory, as denoting mixed, nondescript, or degenerate breed or character: a mongrel pup.

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hyaluronic acid, hyaluronidase, Hyannis Port, HY antigen, Hyattsville, hybrid, hybrid antibody, hybrid bill, hybrid car, hybrid chip, hybrid computer

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How to use hybrid in a sentence

Even then, both said they’ll be implementing a hybrid model.
Future of Work Forum recap: Coronavirus crisis forcing leadership to evolve|Digiday Editors|February 12, 2021|Digiday
We use a new kind of hybrid hardware-software evolutionary architecture for design.
We’re Teaching Robots to Evolve Autonomously—So They Can Adapt to Life Alone on Distant Planets|Emma Hart|February 4, 2021|Singularity Hub
Both plans also call for all students who select hybrid learning to begin heading into classrooms next month.
Virginia’s largest school systems vow to reopen classrooms for all by March|Hannah Natanson|February 3, 2021|Washington Post
Furthermore, Omnispace is a hybrid network using a mix of different technologies, whereas Starlink is focused only on space deployment.
Omnispace raises $60M to fuse satellites and 5G into one ubiquitous network|Danny Crichton|February 2, 2021|TechCrunch

Similarly, we’ve seen many districts design bizarrely untenable hybrid models, like models where students “beam in” from home while a teacher juggles in-person and remote needs simultaneously.
Teacher: What Americans keep getting wrong about our unions during the pandemic|Valerie Strauss|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
Manufacturers are busily introducing new models of all-electric and hybrid cars.
Charging Up|The Daily Beast|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So it was fun to see how they strung those together and had the hybrid between live-action and animation.
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The hugely popular website Weibo, a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, was blocked.
Occupy Hong Kong Hangs On|Lennox Samuels|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Well, apparently, neither is Dunham, who on Tuesday will release her advice book/memoir hybrid, Not That Kind of Girl.
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With each passing month, about 11,000 new all-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles hit the road.
Paved Paradise|The Daily Beast|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Mike dearly loved cauliflowers, and babied ours as a flower gardener babies his hybrid tea roses.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
In truth, this peculiar and highly complex hybrid combined strains of manifold varieties.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi
This individual, whom it was easy at once to recognise as a mameluco hybrid, wore the costume of the sertanejos.
The Guide of the Desert|Gustave Aimard
If such hybrid children marry feeble-minded persons, one half of the offspring will be feeble-minded.
The Science of Human Nature|William Henry Pyle

British Dictionary definitions for hybrid

hybrid

/ (ˈhaɪbrɪd) /

noun

an animal or plant resulting from a cross between genetically unlike individuals. Hybrids between different species are usually sterile

anything of mixed ancestry

a vehicle that is powered by an internal-combustion engine and another source of power such as a battery

a word, part of which is derived from one language and part from another, such as monolingual, which has a prefix of Greek origin and a root of Latin origin

adjective

(of a vehicle) powered by more than one source

denoting or being a hybrid; of mixed origin

physics (of an electromagnetic wave) having components of both electric and magnetic field vectors in the direction of propagation

electronics

(of a circuit) consisting of transistors and valves
(of an integrated circuit) consisting of one or more fully integrated circuits and other components, attached to a ceramic substrateCompare monolithic (def. 3)

Derived forms of hybrid

hybridism, nounhybridity, noun

Word Origin for hybrid

C17: from Latin hibrida offspring of a mixed union (human or animal)

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Scientific definitions for hybrid

hybrid

[ hī′brĭd ]

An organism that is the offspring of two parents that differ in one or more inheritable characteristics, especially the offspring of two different varieties of the same species or the offspring of two parents belonging to different species. In agriculture and animal husbandry, hybrids of different varieties and species are bred in order to combine the favorable characteristics of the parents. Hybrids often display hybrid vigor. The mule, which is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, is an example of a hybrid. It is strong for its size and has better endurance and a longer useful lifespan than its parents. However, mules are sterile, as are many animals that are hybrids between two species.

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