MEANING
1. Something combining features or methods from different types, or describing such a combination.
2. An organism produced by crossing parents from different genetic lines, varieties, or species.
3. A vehicle that combines different power systems, commonly an internal-combustion engine and an electric motor.
Use it for
describing a method combining different approaches; identifying a mixed form without treating it as a simple compromise; discussing a work or institution that crosses conventional categoriesNames an integrated mixture of different types while distinguishing biological parentage and dual-system vehicles. Writing functions: Theory / Conceptual Language, Comparison / Contrast, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- a hybrid approach
- a hybrid form
- hybrid working
On the page
The study uses a hybrid approach, combining archival interpretation with structured interviews.
The institution was a hybrid of a private association and a public service.
The catalogue described the plant as a hybrid of two cultivated varieties.
The imagined creature was a hybrid, but the story gave no account of how its parent lines had been crossed.
The fleet included hybrids as well as vehicles powered only by batteries.
Word forms
- Base
- hybrid
Usage notes
Noun and adjective; noun plural hybrids. Adjective normally classifying, with no ordinary -er/-est forms. Hybrid working describes a mixture of location arrangements, not another inflection. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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