Culture vs Nature - What's the difference?
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The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
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, title= The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (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.
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(computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
As nouns the difference between culture and nature
is that culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation while nature is the natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.As verbs the difference between culture and nature
is that culture is to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria while nature is to endow with natural qualities.As a proper noun Nature is
the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.culture
English
(Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)Noun
(en noun)Farming as rocket science, passage=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.}}
Race Finished, passage=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.}}
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- 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. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.
Derived terms
* alliumculture * anticulture * coleculture * cucurbitculture * culture hero * cyberculture * legumeculture * macroculture * microculture * monoculture * multiculture * olericulture * overculture * solanaculture * subculture * permaculture * uberculture * undercultureVerb
(cultur)See also
* colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}