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hothouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hothouse \Hot"house`\, n.
A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.]
--Shak.A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.(Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A heated greenhouse. 2 (context figurative English) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed. 3 (context obsolete English) A bagnio, or bathe house; a brothel. 4 A heated room for drying greenware. vb. (context of a child English) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
WordNet
n. a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: conservatory, indoor garden]
Wikipedia
Hothouse or Hot House or Hot house may refer to:
- A heated greenhouse
Hothouse is a 1962 award-winning fantasy/science fiction novel by British author Brian Aldiss, composed of five novelettes that were originally serialised in a magazine. In the US, an abridged version was published as The Long Afternoon of Earth; the full version was not published there until 1976. The five stories which make up the novel, which were published separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1961, were collectively awarded the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.
Hothouse is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions.
The HotHouse is a celebrated cultural center last located in the South Loop, Chicago, United States, and known for its program of innovative jazz and world music concerts and as a central meeting place for a variety of community groups. The club on Balbo closed in July 2007 and the current board organizes programming around the region while building a new permanent site for operations.
The Center for International Performance and Exhibition (colloquially called HotHouse), was founded by Marguerite Horberg in 1987 at 1565 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago. In 1995, following the gentrification of the locality, Wicker Park, the venue, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, moved to a second floor space at 31 E. Balbo Ave. The venue had a large main room with booths and dance floor with a room for catered events and art shows and put on a varied and inclusive programme of music. Performers at the Hothouse included Roscoe Mitchell, Gil Scott-Heron, Maria Rita, Henry Threadgill, Susie Ibarra, Savina Yannatou, Dewey Redman and Olu Dara. Since 2007, HotHouse has organized over 100 programs as itinerant presenters and has produced a number of year- long thematic and multi-disciplinary events such as the WPA 2.0, A Brand New Deal, The African Jubilee and Old and New Dreams. HotHouse has been awarded with many of the top honors in the Arts and Culture industry including: Best of Chicago, Chicagoan of the Year, and The Abbey.
The HotHouse is also a forum for social issues and would host a benefit or offer support on issues such as the rights of undocumented workers or hurricane Katrina.
"Hothouse" is a song by American band 78violet. It is their first single release since their renaming from Aly & AJ in 2009. It was released on July 8, 2013. The song was written by sisters Aly and AJ Michalka, and Mike Einziger (of the band Incubus), while production was handled by David Kahne.
Hothouse is an American medical drama that aired from June 13 until August 1, 1988 on Thursday Night at 10:00 PM EST.
Usage examples of "hothouse".
The Acme Florists were the only ones who carried those primroses, which were shipped from a hothouse in Sausalito, across the Bay.
In the hothouse Aubade stood absently caressing the branches of a young mimosa, hearing a motif of sap-rising, the rough and unresolved anticipatory theme of those fragile pink blossoms which, it is said, insure fertility.
The diplodocus should have very carefully lain Stan right down through a gap in the central hothouse.
That was something he had forgotten to tell Sergeant Forrest: that he was in the habit of passing a brush up the hothouse flue every now and then.
He had already made up his mind who had meddled with the flue of the hothouse.
Talu, Jeddak of Jeddaks of the North, whom I could have sworn was still in his ice-bound hothouse city beyond the northern barrier, and among them sat Tardos Mors and Mors Kajak, with enough lesser jeds and jeddaks to make up the thirty-one who must sit in judgment upon their fellow-man.
The hothouse of forced brilliance the Septagon system produced also generated a lot of smart misfits, and even if none of them fit in individually, together they made an interesting mosaic.
Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.
I would have you know that Tina Blau is no wilting hothouse damsel who occupies empty hours doing dainty watercolors.
In this current hothouse atmosphere of numerous males after a bitch in heat, his feelings had altered to moody outrage as he contemplated the only possible assessment of this miscellanea, consisting of one woman, many men, an absent or complaisant husband, and flirtation.
And at sight of that beautiful creature, sleeping and smiling in her sleep, the earthy, hothouse fumes steeping the mind of one perpetually serving in an atmosphere unsuited to her natural growth, dispersed.
A plant therefore was left undisturbed in the hothouse, and three leaves had their angles measured at noon and at 10 P.
But enough to sense the shape of Zoe Fisher, a clonal baby raised in the hothouse politics of twenty-second-century Earth, young, fragile, terribly naive.
The air was warm as in a hothouse, but light and faintly impregnated with perfume shed surely by the mystical garments of night as she glided on with Domini towards the desert.
His scent reached her, muskier, more intoxicating than the hothouse that surrounded them.