Hothouse
noun
A greenhouse where plants are kept warm for growing.
She grows her orchids in a hothouse in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- hothouse environment
- hothouse plants
noun
A place or situation which promotes the rapid growth or development of something, especially in a tense or competitive atmosphere.
The corporate world can be a hothouse for stressful situations and conflicts.
Often appears as...
- hothouse of creativity
- hothouse of innovation
adjective
Involving concentrated effort in a special activity or field of study.
The hothouse process is designed to accelerate learning in a short period of time.
Often appears as...
- hothouse program
- hothouse training
noun
A greenhouse where plants are kept warm for growing.
She grows her orchids in a hothouse in the backyard.
Often appears as...
- hothouse environment
- hothouse plants
noun
A place or situation which promotes the rapid growth or development of something, especially in a tense or competitive atmosphere.
The corporate world can be a hothouse for stressful situations and conflicts.
Often appears as...
- hothouse of creativity
- hothouse of innovation
adjective
Involving concentrated effort in a special activity or field of study.
The hothouse process is designed to accelerate learning in a short period of time.
Often appears as...
- hothouse program
- hothouse training
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Actual Greenhouses
The term 'hothouse' literally refers to structures where plants are grown in controlled, warm conditions.
Visit the botanical garden's hothouse to see exotic plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultivation Context
'Hothouse' suggests an environment created by humans to grow plants, not natural settings.
Farmers use hothouses to produce vegetables year-round.
Pro Tip 3/3Care and Attention
Using 'hothouse' can imply that the plants or crops require a lot of care.
Those hothouse flowers are delicate and need extra attention.
Pro Tip 1/3Actual Greenhouses
The term 'hothouse' literally refers to structures where plants are grown in controlled, warm conditions.
Visit the botanical garden's hothouse to see exotic plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultivation Context
'Hothouse' suggests an environment created by humans to grow plants, not natural settings.
Farmers use hothouses to produce vegetables year-round.
Pro Tip 3/3Care and Attention
Using 'hothouse' can imply that the plants or crops require a lot of care.
Those hothouse flowers are delicate and need extra attention.
Pro Tip 1/3Actual Greenhouses
The term 'hothouse' literally refers to structures where plants are grown in controlled, warm conditions.
Visit the botanical garden's hothouse to see exotic plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultivation Context
'Hothouse' suggests an environment created by humans to grow plants, not natural settings.
Farmers use hothouses to produce vegetables year-round.
Pro Tip 3/3Care and Attention
Using 'hothouse' can imply that the plants or crops require a lot of care.
Those hothouse flowers are delicate and need extra attention.
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Video examples
How long will human...
a hothouse time during which the continents drifted into their present configuration. Changes in climate or fossils found in the rock record help distinguish these epochs and help geologists tell deep time. So what will be the record of modern people's impact on the planet?
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5 transformational...
because of the risk of pushing the earth system beyond tipping points. In fact, we are facing even a risk of a hothouse earth, where we will undermine and create geopolitical instabilities that could actually make life even more tough for billions of people on earth.
Video examples
How long will human...
a hothouse time during which the continents drifted into their present configuration. Changes in climate or fossils found in the rock record help distinguish these epochs and help geologists tell deep time. So what will be the record of modern people's impact on the planet?
Video examples
5 transformational...
because of the risk of pushing the earth system beyond tipping points. In fact, we are facing even a risk of a hothouse earth, where we will undermine and create geopolitical instabilities that could actually make life even more tough for billions of people on earth.
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Anne Fadiman
American Author
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
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Gunter Grass
German Author
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
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Richard Quest
English Journalist
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.
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Bryan Cranston
American Actor
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Quote examples
Anne Fadiman
American Author
The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.
Quote examples
Gunter Grass
German Author
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
Quote examples
Richard Quest
English Journalist
It is very easy when you are in the hothouse of the newsroom to believe that everybody wants to know about this Important Story Of The Day, when actually, once you walk out the front door, it is people getting on with their lives.
Quote examples
Bryan Cranston
American Actor
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Example 1 of 5
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