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Greenware vs Hothouse - What's the difference?

greenware | hothouse |

As nouns the difference between greenware and hothouse

is that greenware is pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable while hothouse is a heated greenhouse.

As a verb hothouse is

to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

greenware

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (ceramics, usually, uncountable) Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1991 , author=Irene Wittig , title=The Clay Canvas , isbn=080198016X citation , page=9 , passage=Greenware needs to be cleaned and then fired to bisque.}}
  • (ceramics, rare) A form of Chinese pottery having a green glaze.
  • * {{quote-book,
    • year=1983 , author=Yaw Lu and Mary Tregear , title=Song Ceramics , isbn=9971837269 citation , page=5 , passage=Other kilns in Shaanxi and Henan and other provinces in the North, like Shanxi and Shandong, also produced greenwares during the Song period.}}

    Related terms

    * earthenware * greenbody * stoneware

    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