native ability

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• ability — /euh bil i tee/, n., pl. abilities. 1. power or capacity to do or act physically, mentally, legally, morally, financially, etc. 2. competence in an activity or occupation because of one s skill, training, or other qualification: the ability to… …   Universalium

• native — natively, adv. nativeness, n. /nay tiv/, adj. 1. being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one s native land. 2. belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability; native… …   Universalium

• native — na|tive1 W3 [ˈneıtıv] adj ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(country)¦ 2 native New Yorker/population/inhabitants etc 3 native language/tongue 4¦(plant/animal)¦ 5¦(art/custom)¦ 6¦(natural)¦ 7 go native ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: natif, from …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• native — [[t]ne͟ɪtɪv[/t]] ♦♦♦ natives 1) ADJ: ADJ n Your native country or area is the country or area where you were born and brought up. It was his first visit to his native country since 1948... Mother Teresa visited her native Albania. 2) N COUNT: N… …   English dictionary

• native — na•tive [[t]ˈneɪ tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one s native land[/ex] 2) belonging to a person by birth or to a thing by nature; inherent: native ability[/ex] 3) pan… …   From formal English to slang

• ability — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. power, skill, competency, capacity, capability, aptitude, faculty, talent (inf.), know how; what it takes (si). Ant., inability, incompetency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Capacity to act] Syn. aptitude,… …   English dictionary for students

• native American — native American, adj. a person born in the United States. [1835 45, Amer.] * * * ▪ indigenous peoples of Canada and United States Introduction also called  American Indian,  Amerindian,  Amerind,  Indian,  Aboriginal American,  or  First Nation… …   Universalium

• Native American gaming — enterprises are gaming businesses operated on Indian reservations or tribal land in the United States. Indian tribes have limited sovereignty over these businesses and therefore are granted the ability to establish gambling enterprises outside of …   Wikipedia

• Native American disease and epidemics — pervade many aspects of Native American life, both throughout history and in the modern day. Diseases and epidemics can be chronicled from centuries ago when European settlers brought diseases that devastated entire tribes to the modern day when… …   Wikipedia

• Native American civil rights — are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States. Although indigenous to the Americas, American Indians became one of many minorities and the movement for American Indian civil rights began almost as soon as Europeans started to… …   Wikipedia

• Native American Church — insignia Native American Church, a religious denomination which practices Peyotism or the Peyote religion, originated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States.… …   Wikipedia