| 单词 | displacement activity |
| 释义 | displacement activitynoun Animal Behavior.a behavior performed out of its usual context and apparently irrelevant to the prevailing situation, as eating when an unknown individual approaches, tending to occur when appropiate behaviors, as attacking or fleeing, are in conflict or obstructed. Origin of displacement activityFirst recorded in 1945–50 Words nearby displacement activitydisplace, displaced, displaced homemaker, displaced person, displacement, displacement activity, displacement current, displacement hull, displacement ton, displacement tonnage, displacer Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for displacement activitydisplacement activity nounpsychol behaviour that occurs typically when there is a conflict between motives and that has no relevance to either motive, e.g. head scratching zoology the substitution of a pattern of animal behaviour that is different from behaviour relevant to the situation, e.g. preening at an apparently inappropriate time Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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