What's the difference between domestic and feral?

Domestic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.
  • (a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
  • (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
  • (a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
  • (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
  • (n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (4) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
  • (5) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (6) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
  • (7) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (8) It has been found that in the first year of life, in females from a population selected for domesticated behavior (tame), there is no differentiated adrenal response to different doses of ACTH.
  • (9) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (10) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (11) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
  • (12) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
  • (13) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
  • (14) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
  • (15) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
  • (16) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (17) In South Korea they have set a goal for every home in the country to have domestic robots by 2020.
  • (18) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.
  • (19) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
  • (20) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.

Feral


Definition:

  • (a.) Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
  • (a.) Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tests were conducted on naturally infected fish from feral populations and commercial sources, as well as on fish which were experimentally infected with a virulent culture of Aeromonas hydrophila.
  • (2) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
  • (3) Mann describes herself as a "feral child", running naked with dogs or riding her horse with only a string through its mouth.
  • (4) The yeast Cyniclomyces guttulatus (Saccharomycopsis guttulata) was shown in this study to line the stomach of domestic and feral rabbits, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
  • (5) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
  • (6) From one side we hear that it's about feral youth, and from the others its all about inequality.
  • (7) In New Zealand's four main feral red deer populations (n = 188) the DIA1F allele frequency ranged from 0.491 to 0.985.
  • (8) Evidence of viral transmission by feral animals was not obtained.
  • (9) A behavioural study of feral horses was conducted on the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in the western United States.
  • (10) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
  • (11) Six hundred sixty-one feral swine (Sus scrofa) from Ossabaw Island, Georgia (USA) were captured, bled, and their sera tested for pseudorabies virus (PRV) antibody during a 6 yr period.
  • (12) This is the first study in which it has been possible to demonstrate a close morphological congruity between a set of idiopathic hepatic lesions in any feral population and an established series of hepatic lesions inducible in rodents by certain hepatocarcinogens under laboratory conditions.
  • (13) For periods of 3, 6, and 12 months, 104 feral rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were on test.
  • (14) The feral heart stopped at a mean of 10-4 hours (range 0-5 to 25 hours) after the injection of PGF2alpha.
  • (15) The former Labour prime minister, who towards the end of his time in office in June 2007 branded the media as being like a "feral beast tearing people and reputations to bits" in a speech, said on Monday morning he now felt more comfortable talking about the sometimes unassailable power that newspapers hold without responsibility.
  • (16) The social behavior of feral horses was studied in the western United States.
  • (17) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (18) Captive feral mares were similar to domestic breeds in the percentage of mares ovulating all year and in the P levels achieved during the estrous cycle and pregnancy.
  • (19) Having been quite feral, he was proud of his domestication."
  • (20) Some breeds came from other countries, others were developed from feral animals and yet others were created in this state by crossing and selective breeding.