Cul"ture (?), n. 1.
(Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or
other organisms in artificial media or under artificial
conditions. (b) The collection of organisms
resulting from such a cultivation.
&fist; The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many
phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various
mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms
cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture
tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc.
2. (Cartography) Those details of a
map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area
delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses,
bridges, meridians, and parallels.
Cul"ture (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F.
culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till,
cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony.]
1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of
preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as,
the culture of the soil.
2. The act of, or any labor or means
employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and
intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the
mind.
If vain our toil
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Pepe.
3. The state of being cultivated; result
of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and
discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization;
refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their
paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we
less happily try to express by the more artificial word
culture.
J. C. Shairp.
The list of all the items of the general life of a
people represents that whole which we call its
culture.
Tylor.
Culture fluid, a fluid in which the
germs of microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for
purposes of study or as a means of modifying their
virulence.
Cul"ture, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135); p. pr. & vb.
n. Culturing.] To cultivate; to
educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured.
Usher.
Cul"ture (?), n. 1.
(Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or
other organisms in artificial media or under artificial
conditions. (b) The collection of organisms
resulting from such a cultivation.
&fist; The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many
phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various
mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms
cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture
tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc.
2. (Cartography) Those details of a
map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area
delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses,
bridges, meridians, and parallels.
