Word: hybridize
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...cupped shape, somewhere between a claw and a crotch, and he started throwing off lines from Amadeus. He became, in almost supersonic succession, the man at the neighboring table, then the character he has been playing in Peter Shaffer's smash Broadway play and, finally, some wonderfully stylized hybrid of them both. Then, suddenly, McKellen laughed and turned back to his meal. It was a day off, after...
...when he and Stanley Cohen of Stanford University helped point the way to such miracles. They devised a relatively simple method for taking genes-which contain instructions for one or more inherited characteristics-out of one living organism and splicing them into the genes of another. The resulting hybrid, usually a variety of the common bacterium E. coli, then makes the substance ordered up by its new gene. So powerful a tool is recombinant DNA, as it is called, that the rapidly proliferating bugs can act like little microbial factories churning out great quantities of material...
Until now, students who wanted to study literature had to do so in a restricted or hybrid form by majoring in one of the foreign language departments, the English Department's honors option II, or History and Literature. Comparative Literature remained a discipline reserved for graduate students...
...U.C.S.C.'s first glossy "view book" full of color photos of the Pacific seacoast and sunsets amid the redwoods. The essence of his sales pitch, though, is no more flamboyant than Clark Kerr's original vision of Santa Cruz. Moll calls the school "the near perfect hybrid," blending the large public university and the small private college. "This place feels like Vassar or Bowdoin," he says. "The academic tone, the small size and the location all contribute to the feeling of a private college. But we draw on the resources of a famous, good - maybe the best - public...
...image of the local literati's artistic work is descended from a romantic regionalism of "tall tales" on camp fire trails, but this image is changing with the rapid growth of the city and the migration of many non-Texan artists to this university town, evolving into a hybrid of the universal backgrounds of the new-comers and the urbanized concerns of older Texans...