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Meaning of "homophyly" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOMOPHYLY

From Greek, from homo- + phylum.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMOPHYLY

homophyly  [hɒˈmɒfəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMOPHYLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homophyly is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOMOPHYLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of homophyly in the English dictionary

The definition of homophyly in the dictionary is resemblance due to common ancestry.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMOPHYLY


anencephaly
ˌænenˈsefəlɪ
awfully
ˈɔːfəlɪ
deceitfully
dɪˈsiːtfəlɪ
fruitfully
ˈfruːtfəlɪ
lustfully
ˈlʌstfəlɪ
macrocephaly
ˌmækrəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
manfully
ˈmænfəlɪ
masterfully
ˈmɑːstəfəlɪ
microcephaly
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
mournfully
ˈmɔːnfəlɪ
neglectfully
nɪˈɡlɛktfəlɪ
Offaly
ˈɒfəlɪ
plagiocephaly
ˌpleɪdʒɪəʊˈsɛfəlɪ
purposefully
ˈpɜːpəsfəlɪ
resourcefully
rɪˈsɔːsfəlɪ
sinfully
ˈsɪnfəlɪ
sorrowfully
ˈsɒrəʊfəlɪ
soulfully
ˈsəʊlfəlɪ
unfaithfully
ʌnˈfeɪθfəlɪ
unmercifully
ʌnˈmɜːsɪfəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMOPHYLY

homophile
homophobe
homophobia
homophobic
homophone
homophonic
homophonically
homophonous
homophony
homophyllic
homoplasmy
homoplastic
homoplastically
homoplasty
homoplasy
homopolar
homopolarity
homopolymer
homopolymeric
homopteran

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMOPHYLY

brachydactyly
coyly
doyly
dryly
feyly
gayly
grayly
greyly
heterostyly
Lyly
macrodactyly
monophyly
pentadactyly
polydactyly
shyly
slyly
spryly
syndactyly
tetradactyly
wryly

Synonyms and antonyms of homophyly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homophyly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMOPHYLY

Find out the translation of homophyly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of homophyly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homophyly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

homophyly
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homophyly
570 millions of speakers

English

homophyly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homophyly
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

homophyly
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

homophyly
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homophyly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homophyly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homophyly
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homofly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

homophyly
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

homophyly
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homophyly
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homofly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homophyly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homophyly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समलिंगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homophyly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

homophyly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homophyly
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

homophyly
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homophyly
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

homophyly
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homophyly
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

homophyly
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homophyly
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homophyly

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOPHYLY»

The term «homophyly» is used very little and occupies the 162.237 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMOPHYLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about homophyly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMOPHYLY»

Discover the use of homophyly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homophyly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Complex Social Networks
of the model, a and H - i.e. on the degree of homophyly and the richness of the social space of characteristics. They focus, in particular, on how this delay (the length of the search path) impinges on the probability of finding the target if, at each ...
Fernando Vega-Redondo, 2007
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Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, ...
regarding homophyly. More recently, Perrucci and Lewis (1989), in a 1981 replication of their own work, found that interorganizational leaders (IOLs) were more likely than persons with fewer organizational connections to exhibit homophyly, ...
Robert Perrucci, Harry R. Potter
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The Social Work Interview: A Guide for Human Service ...
The concept of homophyly suggests that people who share similar backgrounds are more likely to feel comfortable with each other, more likely to understand each other, and are more likely to disclose to each other. Homophyly as a factor in ...
Goldie Kadushin, 2013
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Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe College Students in ...
Extent of homophyly in students' friendship pattern (Table - 1V.20) A further classification of the best friends of the students has been made in order to know the extent of homophyly in the friendship pattern of the students as shown in Table IV.
B. V. Shah, J. D. Thaker, 1978
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Socioemotional Development in the Toddler Years: Transitions ...
This is important, as behavioral homophyly is a key factor in drawing children together (Rubin, Lynch, Coplan, Rose-Krasnor, & Booth, 1994). This point relates to a further contrast between peer and sibling relationships, namely, that only the  ...
Celia A. Brownell, Claire B. Kopp, 2010
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Sociological Bulletin
Classifying the extent of homophyly in four categories, high, medium, low and nil homophyly*, it is found that a little more than one-third (35.6%) of the ST college students have. high homophyly, a little less than one-third (31.9) have medium ...
‎1979
7
Marketing for Attorneys and Law Firms
The attorney recognizes that he/she must serve as an interpersonal buffer for the client as well as provide legal counsel. Homophyly plays a greater role in this situation than in the case of the public defender. Via socialization experience ...
William Winston, 2013
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A Dictionary of Entomology
HOMOPHYLY Noun. (Greek, homos I same + phylum I race. PL, Homophylies.) 1. Condition of resemblance due to common ancestry. 2. A type of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology). Cf. Homoplasty. Adj. Homophylic.
‎2011
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Asbestos Head
“Last week We were arguing over the definition of homophyly and when his wasn 't in the dictionary, he bent it backwards and snapped its spine screaming, dictionaries are nothing but annotated thesauruses! He's been speaking in analogies ...
Eric Dubay, 2008
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Scientific and Technical Translation
The concepts of heterophyly and homophyly may be of use. Is it possible that the effects of the French educational system and its "civilizing mission" have created a long-lasting homophyly between the French and their former subjects, at least ...
Sue Ellen Wright, Leland D. Wright, 1993

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMOPHYLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homophyly is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Food Safety Battle
This chapter is all about homophyly, Yiannas said, explaining the term to mean that people of similar character tend to befriend each other. «Quality Assurance & Food Safety, Feb 15»

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