native vs tame

native

adj
  • Arising by birth; having an origin; born. 

  • Which occurs of its own accord in a given locality, to be contrasted with a species introduced by humans. 

  • Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). 

  • Characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from prehistoric times. 

  • Belonging to one by birth. 

  • Original; constituting the original substance of anything. 

  • Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported. 

  • Pertaining to the system or architecture in question. 

  • Occurring naturally in its pure or uncombined form. 

noun
  • A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place. 

  • A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia). 

  • Ostrea edulis, a kind of oyster. 

  • A native speaker. 

tame

adj
  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

verb
  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

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