culture meaning
EN[ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ] [ˈkʌlt͡ʃə]US UK
WCulture
- Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/) is, in the words of E.B. Tylor, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." (Tylor 1871:1)
- As a defining aspect of what it means to be human, culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies.
- In the humanities, one sense of culture, as an attribute of the individual, has been the degree to which they have cultivated a particular level of sophistication, in the arts, sciences, education, or manners.
FR culture
- NounPLculturesSUF-culture
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
- (botany) Cultivation.
- (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
- A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies.
- (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.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- VerbSGculturesPRculturingPT, PPcultured
- (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
- (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
- (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Vitamin D 3 was fluorescently labeled using a phenothiazinium dye and added to cultures of D.
- Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.
- Due to difficulty culturing the WY-A2 strain in MMH broth, cysteine heart agar with 9% chocolatized sheep blood (CHAB) was used under identical incubation settings as the strains above.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Cultured NHLF were loaded with Fura-2 AM (3 μM) and Ca 2+ signals were recorded by microfluorimetric techniques.
- Culture plates were reincubated for a further 24 h if there was no growth after overnight incubation or predominant morphotype seen in Gram smear had not yet been isolated.
- Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
- As found for chlorophyll most of the other micromolecules identified were found in lower concentration in the cells of chlorotic cultures.
- Urine studies revealed dipstick proteinuria (100 mg/dL), large dipstick blood, only a few normomorphic erythrocytes, and negative culture.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of culture in English Dictionary
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