| 词汇 | colony |
| 释义 | colony noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/ us /ˈkɑː.lə.ni/ colonynoun[C] (GROUP)a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away: 殖民地 Australia and New Zealand are former British colonies.澳大利亚和新西兰从前是英国的殖民地。 a group of people who live in a colony殖民地定居者群体 a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together in a way that is separate from other people: （具有共同爱好或工作的）聚居人群，群体 an artists' colony聚居在一起的艺术家 a nudist colony群居的裸体主义者 biology specialized a group of animals, insects, or plants of the same type that live together: （动物、昆虫或植物的）群，群落;生物群 a colony of ants/termites/bacteria蚁群／白蚁群／菌落 Many behavioural patterns have been identified in the chimp colony.黑猩猩群体中的许多行为模式已被识别。 India was a British colony. Australia and New Zealand are former British colonies.澳大利亚和新西兰从前是英国的殖民地。 Europe saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce.欧洲曾把它的殖民地看作是原材料和驯服劳动力的来源地。 Colonization & self-government acknowledgement of country annex annexation anti-colonial anti-colonialism commonwealth condominium crown colony declare independence decolonization independence Independence Day intercolonial land acknowledgment Nat secede secession self-determination self-governing self-government You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Groups of people Animal groupings colonynoun[C] (HOUSES)Indian English an area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of houses, for example houses that have been built by an employer for its workers（有篱笆或围墙环绕的）住宅区 Houses & homes A-frame ADU affordable housing almshouse apartment dosshouse dower house duplex efficiency efficiency apartment Nissen hut non-housing old people's home palace palazzo town house townhouse tract house trap house two-up two-down colony | American Dictionarycolony noun[ C ] us/ˈkɑl·ə·ni/ politics & government a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country A colony is also a group of people with a shared interest or job who live together: an artists’ colony A colony is also a group of animals, insects, or plants of the same type that live together: an ant colony colonizeverb[ T ]us/ˈkɑl·əˌnɑɪz/ Peru was colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century. Examples of colonycolony A minimum of 200 colonies were analyzed for each plasmid tested at each temperature. In open country, trees becomes sites for breeding colonies which may also facilitate synchronization of breeding. In open savannah, gregarious species forage in flocks from colonies or roosts from which the daily dispersal occurs. The fingerprints of all six enzymes were used for the search of the database from the 74.000 colonies. The number of abnormal sized transcripts is not exhaustive as only 150 colonies per fragment were analysed (750 colonies in total). Presumably the bulk of the colonies reported previously as "recombinants" were actually diploids (or disomics) exhibiting intergenic complementation. The landed rich became economically active, especially in the eighteenth century, through the rise of commercialised farming, banking, and trade with the colonies. Therefore, in this article we will rely on the reader's geometrical perception in comparing the geometrical patterns generated by the bacterial colonies. The colors in the observed colonies are added according to the bacterial density. Here the workers of the settlement colonies appear to have enjoyed the best of both contractual worlds. Furthermore, the general improvement in levels of imperial trade masked important regional variations between overseas territories and within individual colonies. There was no specific number of colonies defined as too high to be counted. When f10 c. f. u. of a pathogen were identified, individual colonies were counted. The number of suspected colonies was counted and if there were too many, this number was estimated. Using proper software the diameters of colonies and the length of active growth area will be measured. See all examples of colony These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcolonycolonyThese are words often used in combination with colony. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. agricultural colony The later was a man of vision and wanted to make the island into an agriculturalcolony. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. bacterial colony Disinfection of natural mineral water is completely prohibited, including the addition of any element that is likely to change bacterialcolony counts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. breeding colony We have established both a breedingcolony of the voles and cultures of the nematode to test hypotheses concerning immunomodulation as a survival strategy in this host-parasite combination. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with colony |
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