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culture
has definitions from the fields of economics,business,agriculture,biology,psychology,sociology,anthropology,chemistry
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[ noun ] (anthropology,sociology) a particular society at a particular time and place
Synonyms Examples "early Mayan civilization" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Nor is it necessary to look_for such evidence in the great urban_centers of our culture that are admittedly almost entirely secularized and so profoundly estranged from the conventional forms in which the gospel has been communicated . The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme `` culture Protestantism '' so often observed to characterize the preaching and teaching of the American churches . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Of_course , nationalism has really outlived its usefulness in a country as world oriented as ours , and its continued existence reflects one of the major culture lags of the twentieth century United_States . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Time 's editor , Thomas_Griffith , in his book , The Waist High Culture , wrote : `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep_South ) I found myself unsympathetic to '' . The long settled areas of states like Virginia and South_Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering , and there the memory is more precious , and the consciousness of loss the greater . |
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[ noun ] (psychology,sociology) the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)By 800 B.C. the Aegean was an area of common tongue and of common culture . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)For it is such a distinguished place , with such fine works_of_art and such a big library , that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture . He is in a hurry to write another essay against culture . The fault was Rameau 's and that of the whole culture of this Parisian age . Related terms |
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[ noun ] all the knowledge and values shared by a society
Synonyms Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)They have insisted , rather , on living fully and completely within modern culture and , so far from considering this treason to God , have looked_upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Or does he sincerely want to tap the real springs of American attitude and culture regardless of how unpopular and embarrassing they may be ? (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The growing contacts between Aegean and Orient are also a phase which should be linked primarily to the remarkable broadening of Hellenic culture after 750 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
Examples "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" Used in print (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)Cultures taken from the jejunum yielded Monilia_albicans , Pseudomonas_pyocanea , Aerobacter_aerogenes , and Streptococcus_anhemolyticus . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium
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[ noun ] a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
Synonyms Examples "he performed with great polish" "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose" "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Conrad Related terms |
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[ noun ] the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
Examples "the developing drug culture" "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (economics,business,agriculture) the raising of plants or animals
Examples : "the culture of oysters" Related terms |
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