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Colonising meaning

present participle and gerund of colonise

Using Colonising

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of colonise
  • In the example corpus, colonising often appears in combinations such as: of colonising, colonising the, is colonising.

Context around Colonising

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Colonising

  • In this selection, "colonising" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, residents, adverts, start, urban, nations and india stand out and add context to how "colonising" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include an early colonising power and are insidiously colonising and easily. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "colonising" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with colonising

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Ok but why were they colonising India. (7 words)

He used the church to start the processing of colonising the land. (12 words)

Fourth, public invocations of identity are insidiously colonising and easily displace reason and argument. (14 words)

Parker adds that a Catholic uprising in the north and in Ireland could have brought total defeat. citation Colonising the New World main The discoveries of Christopher Columbus electrified all of western Europe, especially maritime powers like England. (38 words)

It doesn't help that so many see the artificial general intelligences (AGIs) they want to build as the solution to everything from climate change, radical life extension, immortality and colonising space to finding new energy sources. (37 words)

At times, with betting adverts colonising matches, and broadcasters’ coverage itself sponsored by gambling companies, the booming English game can seem like just a platform to promote and facilitate gambling, here and around the world. (35 words)

Example sentences (19)

This ruling implied that wealthy residents colonising urban skies need to recognise that they are not just in the city, but of it.

Of course, it had its ups and downs, but we have a much worse past with the colonising nations of Europe,” Nasser said in an interview to RT.

Ok but why were they colonising India.

This is very important for a new generation, including lots of young Jewish people who see that Israel is a colonising settler state.

At times, with betting adverts colonising matches, and broadcasters’ coverage itself sponsored by gambling companies, the booming English game can seem like just a platform to promote and facilitate gambling, here and around the world.

They have been accused of destroying wooden buildings but they only start colonising when the wood is already rotten so the structure was in danger before they arrived.

It doesn't help that so many see the artificial general intelligences (AGIs) they want to build as the solution to everything from climate change, radical life extension, immortality and colonising space to finding new energy sources.

And Hitler did this by colonising Germany’s neighbours, and eventually the whole of Europe, so that they could plunder the wealth of those countries for the benefit of Germany.

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Fourth, public invocations of identity are insidiously colonising and easily displace reason and argument.

As much as anyone after Henry the Navigator, he was responsible for Portugal's success as an early colonising power.

Henry had conducted a campaign in South Wales in 1108, pushing out royal power in the region and colonising the area around Pembroke with Flemings.

He used the church to start the processing of colonising the land.

Jabotinsky believed that, Zionism is a colonising adventure and it therefore stands or falls by the question of armed force.

Parker adds that a Catholic uprising in the north and in Ireland could have brought total defeat. citation Colonising the New World main The discoveries of Christopher Columbus electrified all of western Europe, especially maritime powers like England.

The eutrophication of areas outside its natural range partially explain the fish's success in colonising these areas after being introduced.

The reason for this is partly because the Culture believes in containing its own expansion to self-constructed habitats, instead of colonising or conquering new planets.

The relationship begun during the spice trade as Netherlands started a trading post in what is now Indonesia before colonising it as the Dutch East Indies.

This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies.

Within two years of the discovery of the Lake Nyasa, Livingstone had to review his plans of colonising Malawi.

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Common combinations with colonising

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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Colonising means: present participle and gerund of colonise
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