Culture

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group.
  • noun. These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression.
  • noun. The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization.
  • noun. Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences.
  • noun. Special training and development.
  • noun. The cultivation of soil; tillage.
  • noun. The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
  • noun. Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
  • transitive verb. To cultivate (soil or plants).
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
  • transitive verb. To use (a substance) as a medium for culture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cultivate: as, “cultured vales,”
  • noun. In a map, all those features represented which are artificial or of human origin, such as meridians, roads, railroads, trails, ferries, bridges, houses, etc.
  • noun. The act of tilling and preparing the earth for crops; tillage; cultivation.
  • noun. The act of promoting growth in animals or plants, but especially in the latter; specifically, the process of raising plants with a view to the production of improved varieties.
  • noun. Hence— In bacteriology: The propagation of bacteria or other microscopic organisms by the introduction of the germs into suitably prepared fluids or other media, or of parasitic fungi upon living plants. Also called cultivation.
  • noun. The product of such culture.
  • noun. The systematic improvement and refinement of the mind, especially of one's own.
  • noun. The result of mental cultivation, or the state of being cultivated; refinement or enlightenment; learning and taste; in a broad sense, civilization: as, a man of culture.
  • noun. The training of the human body.
  • noun. The pursuit of any art or science with a view to its improvement.
  • noun. Cultivated ground.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage.
  • noun. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man.
  • noun. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
  • noun. The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.
  • noun. Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
  • noun. a fluid in which microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence. If the fluid is gelled by, for example, the use of agar, it then is called, depending on the vessel in which the gelled medium is contained, a plate, a slant, or a stab.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To cultivate; to educate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • noun. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • noun. The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • noun. Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • noun. The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
  • noun. Cultivation.
  • noun. The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
  • verb. To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • verb. To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a particular society at a particular time and place
  • noun. all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  • noun. a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
  • noun. the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
  • noun. the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
  • Word Usage
    "(c) The people of the culture farther west, the _north-west culture_, were not Mongols."
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