to homologize

Examples

• All

• Biologists often homologize the forelimbs of mammals, showing they share a common evolutionary origin.

• Different from this visual encounter, which lacks the depth found in other social relations, the encounter with close strangers is bent on homologizing those groups on the periphery of the local kin classification system.

  Academic text (1999)

• "The yogin thus becomes homologized with the gods...

  Academic text (1990)

• The way they are stuck together to become a single entity and then split into two again homologizes them with the incestuous brother and sister who become one through their sexual embrace and are then separated to become the moon and sun, as well as with the primordial giant who is bisected to become the sky and the earth (or the sun and the moon).

  Academic text (2016)

• But there is another issue regarding the vocabulary of Pizarnik's poetry that has only tangentially to do with the extent to which individual words may be interpreted outside their place in the poetic discourse and the extent to which they may be classified and homologized extratextually as well.

  Academic text (1994)

• In their research, scientists aim to homologize the genetic structures of different species to understand their evolutionary relationships.

Synonyms

H

to homologate

vsto homologize

• Specialized

9.9

To show that two body parts or genes come from the same origin

show or make items share origin or structure rather than only classifying them

Antonyms

D

to differentiate

71 4.4

To show or notice how things are different

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology