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culture | rhaetian |

As nouns the difference between culture and rhaetian

is that culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation while Rhaetian is a native or inhabitant of Rhaetia in central and eastern Switzerland.

As a verb culture

is to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria.

As an adjective Rhaetian is

pertaining to the culture or geography of Raetia.

As a proper noun Rhaetian is

rhaeto-Romanic, a continuum of modern Romance languages spoken in much the same region.

culture

English

(Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • * http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
  • The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  • (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. ... 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 * underculture

    Verb

    (cultur)
  • To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
  • To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
  • See also

    * colonus * colonia * column * cycle * wheel English collective nouns ----

    rhaetian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Raetian * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Rhaetia in central and eastern Switzerland.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the culture or geography of Raetia.
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Rhaeto-Romanic, a continuum of modern Romance languages spoken in much the same region.
  • (linguistics) An extinct non-Romance language spoken in the ancient region of Raetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times.
  • See also

    * (Raetic language) * Linguist list entry for: xrr

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