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/ˈkäləˌnīz/,
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colonising, present participle; colonized, past tense; colonizes, 3rd person singular present; colonized, past participle; colonizing, present participle; colonises, 3rd person singular present; colonised, past tense; colonised, past participle;
  1. (of a country or its citizens) Send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it
    • - the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy
  2. Come to settle among and establish political control over (the indigenous people of an area)
    • - a white family that tries to colonize a Caribbean island
  3. Appropriate (a place or domain) for one's own use

  4. (of a plant or animal) Establish itself in an area
    • - mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces
    • - insect borers colonize in rotted shoreline deadfalls
  1. inhabited by colonists
  2. (colonize) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world; "Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century"
  3. In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. ...
  4. Colonization, (or Colonisation in British English), occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, "to inhabit, cultivate, frequent, practice, tend, guard, respect," originally related to humans. ...
  5. (Colonization (series)) Colonization is a trilogy of books written by Harry Turtledove. It is a continuation of the situation set up in the Worldwar four-book series, projecting the situation between humanity and the Race (the bipedal lizardlike invaders and settlers from Worldwar) nearly twenty ...
  6. (Colonization (video game)) Sid Meier's Colonization is a computer game by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier released by Microprose in 1994. It is a turn-based strategy game themed on the early European colonization of the New World, starting in 1492 and lasting until 1850. ...
  7. (colonize) Alternative spelling of colonise
  8. (Colonization) The establishment of a species in an area not currently occupied by that species. Colonization often involves dispersal across an area of unsuitable habitat.
  9. (colonization) the act or process of establishing control over a country or area by a more powerful and often distant country
  10. (COLONIZATION) Residence of bacteria in, or on, part of the body and causing neither disease nor a response by the individual's immune system.
  11. (COLONIZATION) The presence and multiplication of microorganisms without tissue invasion or damage. The infected individual demonstrates no signs or symptoms of infection, while the potential to infect others still exists.
  12. (COLONIZATION) the successful occupation of a new habitat by a species not normally found in this niche
  13. (Colonization) "Implantation and growth of a microorganism on a host" (Dorland's Dictionary 1994).
  14. (Colonization) A population which is stable in size and which multiplies at a rate great enough to sustain numbers without reintroducing the bacteria.
  15. (Colonization) Mercury · Venus · Moon · Lagrangian points · Mars · Phobos · Ceres · Asteroids — Outer Solar System: Jupiter · Europa · Callisto · Saturn · Titan · Uranus · Neptune · trans-Neptunian objects · Pluto
  16. (Colonization) Proliferation of microorganisms on or within body sites without detectable host immune response, cellular damage, or clinical expression. The presence of a microorganism within a host may occur with varying duration, but may become a source of potential transmission. ...
  17. (Colonization) Some virulent bacteria produce special proteins that allow them to colonize parts of the host body. Helicobacter pylori is able to survive in the acidic environment of the human stomach by producing the enzyme urease. ...
  18. (Colonization) The concept of resettling emancipated slaves to points outside of the United States, primarily Liberia. This subject also includes all mentions of specific colonization societies that were founded to facilitate the transportation and resettlement of emancipated blacks. ...
  19. (Colonization) The effort to encourage masters to vol untarily emancipate their slaves and to resettle free blacks in Africa.
  20. (Colonization) The period of the mushroom cultivation starting at inoculation during which the mycelium grows through the substrate until it is totally permeated and overgrown.
  21. (Colonization) a process of one country taking over another in order to exploit it
  22. (Colonization) laid the groundwork for today’s globalized networks; physical process of a state putting its government in charge of a foreign place to gain control of its people and resources.
  23. (Colonization) the phase of the SPBâ s life cycle that includes mating, egg laying, and gallery construction.
  24. (colonization) (in  France: Commerce)
  25. (colonization) (n.): a phenomenon by which a small portion of a plant or animal population is introduced to a new ecosystem and settles until it becomes omnipresent, found almost everywhere. Back