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Glasshouse vs Hothouse - What's the difference?

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Glasshouse is a related term of hothouse.


As nouns the difference between glasshouse and hothouse

is that glasshouse is a building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial) while hothouse is a heated greenhouse.

As a verb hothouse is

(of a child) to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

glasshouse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial).
  • A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
  •   A military prison.
  • Synonyms

    * greenhouse (chiefly domestic)

    hothouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heated greenhouse.
  • (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.
  • (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
  • * 1604 , , II. i. 64:
  • and now she professes a / hot-house , which I think is a very ill house too.
    (Ben Jonson)
  • A heated room for drying greenware.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
  • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs