Word Finder - culture

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The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.

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The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

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The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.

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Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

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Cultivation.

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The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

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The growth thus produced.

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I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

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A group of bacteria.

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The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

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A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

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To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

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To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

If only she understood our culture better.

How long would it take her to adapt to this culture?

A great chapter in the history of culture is filled by the influence of translations of the Bible.

Yet laws and culture changed dramatically.

The Nabataeans had already some tincture of foreign culture when they first appeared in history.

These activities were part of the culture of everyday life.

The world is developing a shared popular culture with elements drawn from around the globe.

That culture was naturally Aramaic.

What does our Concord culture amount to?

This is a force for peace, as more and more people have family members in more than one culture and share the interests of more than one nationality.

To encourage culture and philanthropy is all very well of course.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.

But why intellectual activity is considered by the historians of culture to be the cause or expression of the whole historical movement is hard to understand.

Of recent years great strides have been made in the culture of new varieties of water-lilies in the open air.

The universal historians give contradictory replies to that question, while the historians of culture evade it and answer something quite different.

Yet in most parts of the world, emancipation came peacefully as the civilizing effects of culture transformed society.

He was also a man of learning and culture.

The humanistic movement had created a common culture, a common language and sense of common nationality.

Though much land previously devoted to grain culture has been planted with vines, the area under wheat, barley, beans and maize is still considerable.

It was assumed that each separate speck contained a pure culture.

When the Arabs possessed themselves of the scattered remains of Greek culture, the works of Galen were more highly esteemed than any others except those of Aristotle.

After the death of his father, he was brought up under the care of Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, a man of integrity and culture, and on terms of friendship with the younger Pliny.

Pizza is as much a part of the coastal town's culture as the salty sea air and the beach.

Boston is a city that is full of historic landmarks, world-class educational facilities and beautiful landscapes with a culture all its own.

There are besides a number of learned societies in the various provinces for the fostering of special provincial or national aims. There are also a number of societies for the propagation of culture, both amongst the Hungarian and the non-Hungarian nationalities.

As in the parallel case of the Roman conquest of Greece, the superior culture of the conquered race asserted its supremacy over their Arab conquerors.

The city provides plenty of opportunites to soak in the culture and history of the area.

The Islamite rulers in Spain were not long behind those of the East in encouraging learning and medical science, and developed culture to a still higher degree of perfection.

At the risk no doubt of some defects of culture, the newer education cleared the way for a more positive temper, awoke a new sense of accuracy and of verification, and created a sceptical attitude towards all conventions, whether of argument or of practice.

The Chinese guarded the secrets of their valuable art with vigilant jealousy; and there is no doubt that many centuries passed before the culture spread beyond the country of its origin.

This first period of human culture has been subdivided by Lord Avebury into Palaeolithic and Neolithic, words which have been generally accepted as expressing the two stages of the rough, unpolished and the finely finished and polished stone implements.

In a city that never sleeps, with a melting pot of every culture in the world, it is easy to find food from around the planet.

What little culture there was outside the court, the capital and the palaces of a few prelates, was to be found in the towns, most of them of German origin.

Yet in their inadequate way they served to keep alive throughout the dark ages some little knowledge of the antique culture and learning.

Whether you're taking part in the water sports, hiking the area trails or soaking up the culture, when your appetite calls to your attention, the city provides many choices to satisfy every craving.

The Renaissance had little or no influence on Sardinian architecture and culture.

Though the Turks have profoundly affected the whole of eastern Europe, the result of their conquests has been not so much to plant Asiatic culture in Europe as to arrest development entirely, the countries under their rule remaining in much the same condition as under the moribund Byzantine empire.

Looking at eastern Europe and western Asia only, one must say that Asiatic influences have on the whole prevailed hitherto (though perhaps the tide is turning), for Islam is paramount in this region and European culture at a low ebb.

The chief adviser of Theodoric, the East Gothic king in Italy, he accepted with ardour that monarch's great scheme, if indeed, he did not himself originally suggest it, of welding Roman and Goth together into one harmonious state which should preserve the social refinement and the intellectual culture of the Latin-speaking races without losing the hardy virtues of their Teutonic conquerors.

In some cases they ceased to farm their own land and let it out on lease often together with the stock upon it; or else they abandoned arable culture, laid down their demesnes to pasture, enclosed the waste lands and devoted themselves to sheep-farming.

The rulers fostered agriculture, stimulated commerce and industry (notably the famous Attic ceramics), adorned the city with public works and temples, and rendered it a centre of culture.

The culture of cotton is making rapid progress, immigrants who receive a grant of land being obliged to devote one-fourth of it to cotton culture.

The primate Cardinal, Janos Vitez (1408-1472), at the beginning, and the primate, Cardinal Tamas Bakocz, at the end of the reign were men of eminent ability and the highest culture.

Most of its inhabitants are engaged in rice culture.

His Presidential Discourses (published, London, 1896) were full of elegance and culture.

Between this and 1880 a museum, a school of agriculture, and a culture garden were added, and since then library, botanical, chemical, and pharmacological laboratories, and a herbarium have been established.

Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen, and the general culture he thus gained stood him in good stead when he turned to chemistry, the study of which he began under Liebig.

New York was in 1904 more extensively engaged in oyster culture than any other state, and was making more rapid progress in the cultivation of hard clams. In 1909 there were distributed from state fish hatcheries 1 531,293,721 fishes (mostly smelt, pike-perch, and winter flatfish); a large number of fish and eggs were also placed in New York waters by the United States Bureau of Fisheries.

He is a man of the world, of philosophic culture, who accepts much of the influential Platonism of the time but has absorbed little of its positive religious sentiment.

Whether dwelling on the land or dwelling in the lake, they have exhibited so many indications of capacity, intelligence, industry and social organi zation that they cannot be considered as presenting, even in their Stone age, a very low condition of culture or civilization.