| slovo | definícia |
culture
(mass) | culture
- kultúra |
culture
(encz) | culture,kultura |
culture
(encz) | culture,kulturní Zdeněk Brož |
culture
(encz) | culture,pěstovat v: Zdeněk Brož |
Culture
(gcide) | Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.]
To cultivate; to educate.
[1913 Webster]
They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.
[1913 Webster] |
Culture
(gcide) | Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.
Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Cartography) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Culture fluid, Culture medium 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
culture
(wn) | culture
n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early
Mayan civilization" [syn: culture, civilization,
civilisation]
2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social
group
3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn:
acculturation, culture]
4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium
(such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri
dish"
5: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or
impeccable quality; "they 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"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement,
culture, cultivation, finish]
6: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a
particular social group or organization; "the developing drug
culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction
has something to do with the FBI culture"
7: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"
v 1: grow in a special preparation; "the biologist grows
microorganisms" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
agriculture
(mass) | agriculture
- poľnohospodárstvo |
silviculture
(mass) | silviculture
- lesníctvo |
subculture
(mass) | subculture
- subkultúra |
agriculture
(encz) | agriculture,zemědělský adj: Zdeněk Brožagriculture,zemědělství n: |
apiculture
(encz) | apiculture,včelařství n: web |
aquaculture
(encz) | aquaculture,akvakultura [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
aquiculture
(encz) | aquiculture,hydroponie n: Zdeněk Brož |
arboriculture
(encz) | arboriculture,pěstování stromů Zdeněk Brož |
consumer culture
(encz) | consumer culture,konzumní kultura [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
counter-culture
(encz) | counter-culture,kultura mimo oficiálního rámce Zdeněk Brož |
counterculture
(encz) | counterculture,kontrakultura n: xkomczaxcounterculture,kultura mimo oficiálního rámce Zdeněk Brožcounterculture,podzemní kultura |
cranberry culture
(encz) | cranberry culture, n: |
culture medium
(encz) | culture medium, n: |
culture shock
(encz) | culture shock, |
culture system
(encz) | culture system,kulturní systém [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
cultured
(encz) | cultured,kultivovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožcultured,vzdělaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cultures
(encz) | cultures,kultury n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
cyberculture
(encz) | cyberculture, n: |
drip culture
(encz) | drip culture, n: |
floriculture
(encz) | floriculture,květinářství n: Zdeněk Brož |
food and agriculture organization of the united nations
(encz) | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,FAO Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
PiskačFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO [eko.] RNDr. Pavel
Piskač |
horticulture
(encz) | horticulture,zahradnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
mass culture
(encz) | mass culture, n: |
materials damage to agriculture
(encz) | materials damage to agriculture,materiálové škody v
zemědělství [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
monoculture
(encz) | monoculture,monokultura n: Zdeněk Brož |
mosaic culture
(encz) | mosaic culture, n: |
pisciculture water quality criterion
(encz) | pisciculture water quality criterion,rybochovné kritérium jakosti
vody [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
prehistoric culture
(encz) | prehistoric culture, n: |
pure microorganism culture
(encz) | pure microorganism culture,čistá kultura mikroorganismu [eko.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
scientific agriculture
(encz) | scientific agriculture, n: |
sericulture
(encz) | sericulture, n: |
silviculture
(encz) | silviculture,lesnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
subculture
(encz) | subculture,subkultura n: Zdeněk Brož |
uncultured
(encz) | uncultured,nekulturní adj: Zdeněk Brožuncultured,nevzdělaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
united states department of agriculture
(encz) | United States Department of Agriculture,ministerstvo zemědělství
USA PetrV |
viniculture
(encz) | viniculture,vinohradnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
viticulture
(encz) | viticulture,vinařství n: Zdeněk Brožviticulture,vinohradnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
youth culture
(encz) | youth culture, n: |
youth subculture
(encz) | youth subculture, n: |
fao food and agriculture organization of the united nations
(czen) | FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
food and agriculture organization
(czen) | Food and Agriculture Organization,FAO Zdeněk Brož |
food and agriculture organization of the united nations fao
(czen) | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO,Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Agriculture
(gcide) | Agriculture \Ag"ri*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. agricultura; ager
field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre
and Culture.]
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the
harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live
stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
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Apiculture
(gcide) | Apiculture \Ap"i*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. apis bee + E.
culture.]
Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.
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aquaculture
(gcide) | aquaculture \aquaculture\ adj.
1. the cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or
shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled
and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes
use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of
agriculture, but under water.
[PJC] |
Arboriculture
(gcide) | Arboriculture \Ar`bor*i*cul"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. arbor tree +
cultura. See Culture.]
The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or
for ornamental purposes.
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Aviculture
(gcide) | Aviculture \A"vi*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. avis bird + cultura
culture.] (Zool.)
Rearing and care of birds.
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Culture
(gcide) | Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.]
To cultivate; to educate.
[1913 Webster]
They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.
[1913 Webster]Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.
Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Cartography) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Culture fluid, Culture medium 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
Culture features
(gcide) | Culture features \Culture features\ (Surv.)
The artificial features of a district as distinguished from
the natural.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Culture fluid
(gcide) | Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.
Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Cartography) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Culture fluid, Culture medium 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
culture medium
(gcide) | Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl. L. Media, E. Mediums. [L.
medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See Mid, and cf.
Medius.]
1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things;
intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically:
(a) Middle place or degree; mean.
[1913 Webster]
The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
(b) (Math.) See Mean.
(c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
[1913 Webster]
2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from
one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of
sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action
occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through
or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried
on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc.,
a person through whom the action of another being is said
to be manifested and transmitted.
[1913 Webster]
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
I must bring together
All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.
--Denham.
[1913 Webster]
3. An average. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See Paper.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Microbiology) A source of nutrients in which a
microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to
produce substances, or observe its activity under defined
conditions; also called culture medium or {growth
medium}. The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in
water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or
agar.
[PJC]
7. A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other
messages from an information source to the public, also
called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used
mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media.
See 1st media[2].
[PJC]
Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether
coin, bank notes, or government notes.
Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether.
Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an
exchange of commodities -- money or current
representatives of money.
[1913 Webster]Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.
Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Cartography) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Culture fluid, Culture medium 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
Culture medium
(gcide) | Medium \Me"di*um\, n.; pl. L. Media, E. Mediums. [L.
medium the middle, fr. medius middle. See Mid, and cf.
Medius.]
1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things;
intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically:
(a) Middle place or degree; mean.
[1913 Webster]
The just medium . . . lies between pride and
abjection. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
(b) (Math.) See Mean.
(c) (Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that
by which the extremes are brought into connection.
[1913 Webster]
2. A substance through which an effect is transmitted from
one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of
sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action
occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through
or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried
on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc.,
a person through whom the action of another being is said
to be manifested and transmitted.
[1913 Webster]
Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause
a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
I must bring together
All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.
--Denham.
[1913 Webster]
3. An average. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
A medium of six years of war, and six years of
peace. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
4. A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain
sizes. See Paper.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Paint.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are
ground and prepared for application.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Microbiology) A source of nutrients in which a
microorganism is placed to permit its growth, cause it to
produce substances, or observe its activity under defined
conditions; also called culture medium or {growth
medium}. The medium is usually a solution of nutrients in
water, or a similar solution solidified with gelatin or
agar.
[PJC]
7. A means of transmission of news, advertising, or other
messages from an information source to the public, also
called a news medium, such as a newspaper or radio; used
mostly in the plural form, i. e. news media or media.
See 1st media[2].
[PJC]
Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether
coin, bank notes, or government notes.
Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether.
Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an
exchange of commodities -- money or current
representatives of money.
[1913 Webster]Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
[1913 Webster]
2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training,
disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual
nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe.
[1913 Webster]
3. 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.
[1913 Webster]
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Biol.)
(a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such
as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular
organisms) in artificial media or under artificial
conditions.
(b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a
cultivation.
Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals
or plants in artificial media is called {tissue
culture}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in
many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the
various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in
which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture
oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture,
etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
5. (Cartography) 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Culture fluid, Culture medium 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.
[1913 Webster +PJC] |
Culture myth
(gcide) | Culture myth \Culture myth\
A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or
the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus
myth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Cultured
(gcide) | Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.]
To cultivate; to educate.
[1913 Webster]
They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.
[1913 Webster]Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." --Shenstone.
[1913 Webster]
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;
refined; well-educated.
[1913 Webster]
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured
people, is less often met with than other mental
endowments. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
[1913 Webster] |
cultured pearl
(gcide) | Pearl \Pearl\, n. [OE. perle, F. perle, LL. perla, perula,
probably fr. (assumed) L. pirulo, dim. of L. pirum a pear.
See Pear, and cf. Purl to mantle.]
1. (Zool.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a
brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle,
or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve
mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river
mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually
due to a secretion of shelly substance around some
irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as
nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
Note: Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine
luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and at one time
compared in value with the precious stones. Since
development of cultured pearls, the relative value has
diminished somewhat, though the best pearls are still
expensive, and natural pearls even more so. Artificial
pearls may be made of various materials, including
material similar to that of natural pearls; these are
less expensive than natural or cultured pearls. See
cultured pearl, below.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl;
something very precious.
[1913 Webster]
I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
And those pearls of dew she wears. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
3. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Zool.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Zool.) A light-colored tern.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Zool.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur
on a deer's antler.
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7. A whitish speck or film on the eye. [Obs.] --Milton.
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8. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some
liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
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9. (Print.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.
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Ground pearl. (Zool.) See under Ground.
Pearl barley, kernels of barley, ground so as to form
small, round grains.
Pearl diver, one who dives for pearl oysters.
Pearl edge, an edge of small loops on the side of some
kinds of ribbon; also, a narrow kind of thread edging to
be sewed on lace.
Pearl eye, cataract. [R.]
Pearl gray, a very pale and delicate blue-gray color.
Pearl millet, Egyptian millet (Penicillaria spicata).
Pearl moss. See Carrageen.
Pearl moth (Zool.), any moth of the genus Margaritia; --
so called on account of its pearly color.
Pearl oyster (Zool.), any one of several species of large
tropical marine bivalve mollusks of the genus
Meleagrina, or Margaritifera, found in the East Indies
(especially at Ceylon), in the Persian Gulf, on the coast
of Australia, and on the Pacific coast of America. Called
also pearl shell, and pearl mussel.
Pearl powder. See Pearl white, below.
Pearl sago, sago in the form of small pearly grains.
Pearl sinter (Min.), fiorite.
Pearl spar (Min.), a crystallized variety of dolomite,
having a pearly luster.
Pearl white.
(a) Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; -- used
chiefly as a cosmetic.
(b) A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Berlin
blue.
cultured pearl, a pearl grown by a pearl oyster into which
a round pellet has been placed, to serve as the seed for
more predictable growth of the pearl. The pellet is
usually made from mother-of-pearl, and additional layers
of nacre are deposited onto the seed by the oyster. Such
pearls, being more easily obtained than natural pearls
from wild oysters, are less expensive.
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Cultureless
(gcide) | Cultureless \Cul"ture*less\, a.
Having no culture.
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Domiculture
(gcide) | Domiculture \Dom"i*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. domus house + E.
culture. See 1st Dome.]
The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] --R. Park.
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Fish culture
(gcide) | Fish \Fish\, n.; pl. Fishes (f[i^]sh"[e^]z), or collectively,
Fish. [OE. fisch, fisc, fis, AS. fisc; akin to D. visch,
OS. & OHG. fisk, G. fisch, Icel. fiskr, Sw. & Dan. fisk,
Goth. fisks, L. piscis, Ir. iasg. Cf. Piscatorial. In some
cases, such as fish joint, fish plate, this word has prob.
been confused with fish, fr. F. fichea peg.]
1. A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of
diverse characteristics, living in the water.
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2. (Zool.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having
fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means
of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See
Pisces.
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Note: The true fishes include the Teleostei (bony fishes),
Ganoidei, Dipnoi, and Elasmobranchii or Selachians
(sharks and skates). Formerly the leptocardia and
Marsipobranciata were also included, but these are now
generally regarded as two distinct classes, below the
fishes.
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3. pl. The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
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4. The flesh of fish, used as food.
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5. (Naut.)
(a) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(b) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish,
used to strengthen a mast or yard.
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Note: Fish is used adjectively or as part of a compound word;
as, fish line, fish pole, fish spear, fish-bellied.
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Age of Fishes. See under Age, n., 8.
Fish ball, fish (usually salted codfish) shared fine, mixed
with mashed potato, and made into the form of a small,
round cake. [U.S.]
Fish bar. Same as Fish plate (below).
Fish beam (Mech.), a beam one of whose sides (commonly the
under one) swells out like the belly of a fish. --Francis.
Fish crow (Zool.), a species of crow (Corvus ossifragus),
found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It feeds
largely on fish.
Fish culture, the artifical breeding and rearing of fish;
pisciculture.
Fish davit. See Davit.
Fish day, a day on which fish is eaten; a fast day.
Fish duck (Zool.), any species of merganser.
Fish fall, the tackle depending from the fish davit, used
in hauling up the anchor to the gunwale of a ship.
Fish garth, a dam or weir in a river for keeping fish or
taking them easily.
Fish glue. See Isinglass.
Fish joint, a joint formed by a plate or pair of plates
fastened upon two meeting beams, plates, etc., at their
junction; -- used largely in connecting the rails of
railroads.
Fish kettle, a long kettle for boiling fish whole.
Fish ladder, a dam with a series of steps which fish can
leap in order to ascend falls in a river.
Fish line, or Fishing line, a line made of twisted hair,
silk, etc., used in angling.
Fish louse (Zool.), any crustacean parasitic on fishes,
esp. the parasitic Copepoda, belonging to Caligus,
Argulus, and other related genera. See Branchiura.
Fish maw (Zool.), the stomach of a fish; also, the air
bladder, or sound.
Fish meal, fish desiccated and ground fine, for use in
soups, etc.
Fish oil, oil obtained from the bodies of fish and marine
animals, as whales, seals, sharks, from cods' livers, etc.
Fish owl (Zool.), a fish-eating owl of the Old World genera
Scotopelia and Ketupa, esp. a large East Indian
species (K. Ceylonensis).
Fish plate, one of the plates of a fish joint.
Fish pot, a wicker basket, sunk, with a float attached, for
catching crabs, lobsters, etc.
Fish pound, a net attached to stakes, for entrapping and
catching fish; a weir. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish slice, a broad knife for dividing fish at table; a
fish trowel.
Fish slide, an inclined box set in a stream at a small
fall, or ripple, to catch fish descending the current.
--Knight.
Fish sound, the air bladder of certain fishes, esp. those
that are dried and used as food, or in the arts, as for
the preparation of isinglass.
Fish story, a story which taxes credulity; an extravagant
or incredible narration. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
Fish strainer.
(a) A metal colander, with handles, for taking fish from a
boiler.
(b) A perforated earthenware slab at the bottom of a dish,
to drain the water from a boiled fish.
Fish trowel, a fish slice.
Fish weir or Fish wear, a weir set in a stream, for
catching fish.
Neither fish nor flesh, Neither fish nor fowl (Fig.),
neither one thing nor the other.
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Floriculture
(gcide) | Floriculture \Flo"ri*cul`ture\ (? or ?; 135, 277), n. [L. flos,
floris, flower + cultura culture.]
The cultivation of flowering plants.
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Horticulture
(gcide) | Horticulture \Hor"ti*cul`ture\, n. [L. hortus garden + cultura
culture: cf. F. horticulture. See Yard an inclosure, and
Culture.]
The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of
cultivating gardens or orchards.
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Inculture
(gcide) | Inculture \In*cul"ture\ (?; 135), n. [Pref. in- not + culture:
cf. F. inculture.]
Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [Obs.] --Feltham.
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Ostreaculture
(gcide) | Ostreaculture \Os"tre*a*cul`ture\, n.
The artificial cultivation of oysters.
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Pisciculture
(gcide) | Pisciculture \Pis`ci*cul"ture\, n. [L. piscis a fish + E.
culture.]
Fish culture. See under Fish.
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Pomiculture
(gcide) | Pomiculture \Po"mi*cul`ture\, n. [L. pomum fruit + cultura
culture.] (Hort.)
The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.
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Row culture
(gcide) | Row \Row\, n. [OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. r[=a]w, r?w; probably
akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. r?kh[=a] a line, stroke.]
A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a
line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or
columns.
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And there were windows in three rows. --1 Kings vii.
4.
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The bright seraphim in burning row. --Milton.
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Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in
drills.
Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in
number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is
intersected by a line.
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Self-culture
(gcide) | Self-culture \Self`-cul"ture\, n.
Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own
efforts.
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Sericulture
(gcide) | Sericulture \Ser"i*cul`ture\, n. [See Sericeous, and
Culture.]
The raising of silkworms.
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Silviculture
(gcide) | Silviculture \Sil"vi*cul`ture\, n. [Cf. F. silviculture.]
See Sylviculture.
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Stab culture
(gcide) | Stab culture \Stab culture\ (Bacteriol.)
A culture made by inoculating a solid medium, as gelatin,
with the puncture of a needle or wire; -- called also stab.
The growths are usually of characteristic form.
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Stirpiculture
(gcide) | Stirpiculture \Stir"pi*cul`ture\, n. [L. stirps, stirpis, stem,
stock, race + cultura culture.]
The breeding of special stocks or races.
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