Definition of Cultures. Meaning of Cultures. Synonyms of Cultures

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Definition of Cultures

Culture
Culture 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.
Culture
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. 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.
Culture
Culture 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.

Meaning of Cultures from wikipedia

- concept of a society. Cultures are internally affected by both forces encouraging change and forces resisting change. Cultures are externally affected...
- be applied to cultures that are sufficiently single-minded in their devotion to m**** conquest, control, and colonisation. Both the Culture and the author...
- renaissance: essays in African culture & development, 1946–1960, p. 28. Karnak House (1996). ISBN 0-907015-85-9 Eric S. Ross, Culture and Customs of Senegal,...
- Microbial food cultures are live bacteria, yeasts or moulds used in food production. Microbial food cultures carry out the fermentation process in foodstuffs...
- the Middle kingdoms exported Dravidian language scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast Asia. In the early mediaeval era, Christianity...
- The representation of jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures has a long history, with iconographic examples dating back to at least the mid-Formative period...
- Epistemic cultures (often used in plural form) is a concept developed in the nineties by anthropologist Karin Knorr Cetina in her book Epistemic Cultures: How...
- leading him to write a 1963 follow-up, The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. Snow's position...
- of **** and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures Topics and Cultures A–K—Volume 1; Cultures L–Z. Springer. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-0-306-47770-6....
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