culture | |
1. n. the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation | |
2. n. the beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life | |
3. n. the conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society. | |
4. n. (anthropology) any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings | |
5. n. (botany) cultivation | |
6. n. (microbiology) the process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium | |
7. n. the growth thus produced | |
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died. | |
8. n. the collective noun for a group of bacteria | |
9. n. (cartography) 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 | |
10. v. to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate) | |
11. v. to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate) | |