habituate

«habituate» in Mova's school dictionary: to make them used to something by doing or meeting it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (habituate, habituates, habituated, habituating — formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To habituate someone means to make them used to something by doing or meeting it again and again. tree →

2) (science) An animal becomes habituated when it stops reacting to something harmless that happens often, like birds ignoring a scarecrow. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, habituation is a simple kind of learning: animals stop responding to a sound or sight that keeps happening and never harms them. In wildlife safety, wild animals like bears or foxes that get habituated to people can become dangerous, so you should not feed them. In everyday life we habituate to a ticking clock and stop hearing it. Phrases: habituated to, habituate yourself to.

examples

• The birds soon habituated to the scarecrow and ate the seeds anyway. tree →
• Don't feed the bears, or they will become habituated to people. tree →
• We habituated to the noise of the trains after a week. tree →
• The puppy was slowly habituated to the vacuum cleaner. tree →
• Astronauts must habituate themselves to floating. tree →
• Snails habituate to being touched and stop pulling in. tree →

note

Formal or scientific; in everyday speech people say «get used to». Usually followed by «to». The noun is «habituation». Related to «habit».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «habituate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.