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What's The Definition Of Culture?
[n] the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"
[n] (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" [n] the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group [n] all the knowledge and values shared by a society [n] a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" [n] 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 [n] (bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium Synonyms | Synonyms for Culture: acculturation | civilisation | civilization | cultivation | finish | polish | refinement Related Terms | Find terms related to Culture: acculturation | Acheulean | acquired taste | agrarianism | agricultural geology | agriculture | agrology | agronomics | agronomy | appreciation of excellence | Aurignacian | Azilian | background | backset | bibliolatry | bibliomania | bluestockingism | book learning | book madness | bookiness | bookishness | booklore | breed | breeding | cation | Chellean | choiceness | civility | civilization | civilized taste | civilizedness | class | classical scholarship | classicism | community | complex | contour farming | contour plowing | cultivate | cultivated taste | cultivating | cultivation | cultural drift | culture area | culture center | culture complex | culture conflict | culture contact | culture pattern | culture trait | customs | cut | daintiness | delicacy | delve | dig | dirt farming | discernment | discrimination | donnishness | dress | dressing | dry farming | dryland farming | education | elegance | enculturation | enlightenment | Eolithic | eruditeness | erudition | ethnic group | ethos | excellence | fallow | fallowing | farm | farm economy | farming | fastidiousness | fatten | feed | fertilize | finesse | folkways | force | fruit farming | furrowing | genteelness | gentility | gentlemanlikeness | gentlemanliness | gentleness | geoponics | good breeding | good taste | grace | gracefulness | gracility | graciosity | graciousness | grain farming | grow | harrow | harrowing | hatch | hoe | hoeing | humanism | humanistic scholarship | husbandry | hydroponics | intellectualism | intellectuality | intensive farming | keep | key trait | ladylikeness | learnedness | learning | letters | list | listing | literacy | mixed farming | mores | mulch | nation | nationality | Neolithic | niceness | nicety | nurture | Paleolithic | pedantism | pedantry | people | plow | plowing | polish | Pre-Chellean | prune | pruning | quality | race | raise | rake | ranch | reading | rear | refinement | run | rural economy | savoir faire | savoir-faire | scholarship | sharecropping | socialization | society | Solutrean | sophist | sophistication | spade | speech community | stock | strain | strip farming | suavity | subsistence farming | subtlety | tank farming | taste | tastefulness | thin | thin out | thinning | thremmatology | till | till the soil | tillage | tilling | tilth | trait | trait-complex | truck farming | urbanity | way of life | weed | weed out | weeding | work | working See Also | Aegean civilisation | Aegean civilization | Aegean culture | appreciation | cognitive content | content | counterculture | cranberry culture | cultivation | development | discernment | flawlessness | growing | growth | Helladic civilisation | Helladic civilization | Helladic culture | letters | mass culture | maturation | mental object | Minoan civilisation | Minoan civilization | Minoan culture | Mycenaean civilisation | Mycenaean civilization | Mycenaean culture | ne plus ultra | ontogenesis | ontogeny | perceptiveness | perfection | product | society | starter | subculture | taste | tillage Culture In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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.
If vain our toil We ought to blame the culture, not
the soil. --Pepe.
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.
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.
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture. --Tylor.
{Culture fluid}, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic
organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of
study or as a means of modifying their virulence.
\Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Culturing}.] To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. --Usher. \Cul"ture\, n. 1. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation. 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. 2. (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. |
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