(a.) Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
(n.) That which preserves from injury.
(n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
(n.) A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
(2) The conservatory therapeutical means have limited indications, or results dependent on several parameters, and some methods require a special equipment.
(3) Grant Shapps has a great wheeze for getting to the top of any Google search and we're going to relax the planning laws to allow more conservatories … Clegg: Hello, Conference.
(4) Como Park Zoo and Conservatory came up with the idea in response to a common prank where people leave trick messages for friends from people named things like Don Key and Sally Mander, then including the phone number for the local zoo.
(5) "Had General Dostum gone to another ticket, my winning would have become theoretical," Ghani said in the conservatory of his understated home in west Kabul, shortly before the Helmand gathering.
(6) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
(7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
(8) Bamboo, wooden mats, and discreetly placed artefacts dominate the interior, plus there's a long, sloping paved garden with a conservatory and a whiteboard for travellers to leave messages.
(9) Cerebral lateralization for music has been studied through a music-manual interference paradigm (tapping) in a group of young musicians (seven males and seven females) attending the 1st and 3rd intermediate grades of Udine's "J. Tomadini" State Conservatory of Music and in a group of graduated expert musicians or higher course students during the execution of three distinct tasks (singing notes, whistling a melody and singing a melody).
(10) The house in Turville Heath had acquired a conservatory, for Olivier to pot earwigs in the television version of Voyage.
(11) The vast majority of European conservatories offer tuition rates that are lower than current rates."
(12) It is a bit like someone constantly drawing down cash against their house, spending it on improvements and borrowing yet more on the basis that it could be sold for more, should someone fancy purchasing a 17-room mansion with an ugly side-return and triple-glazed conservatory.
(13) These days the food and the slick conservatory restaurant are a match for the views over this area of outstanding natural beauty.
(14) There is a small glass conservatory and garden where a cafe opens from March to October.
(15) On leaving school in 1974, Lepage applied for a place in the Quebec conservatory of music and drama.
(16) A further 16% of properties benefit from additional space through having a conservatory," Nationwide found.
(17) "A one-year holiday from the current rules on planning for a conservatory extension of up to eight metres into a garden does not represent an economic plan," he said.
(18) Recession of the inferior rectus in surface anaesthesia by 5% cocaine drops was performed in 8 patients with signs of hypotropia in the course of thyroid orbitopathia and with diplopia persisting after conservatory treatment and not corrected by prisms.
(19) Out of a total of 475 interventions for renal lithiasis, the author has performed only 15 partial nephrectomies, as compared with 118 total nephrectomies and 342 conservatory pyelotomies and nephrotomies.
(20) He had the house extended to add a conservatory at the back for a full-sized snooker table, and spent the rest of the day playing snooker or watching television.
Hothouse
Definition:
(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.
(n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.
(n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
(n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were no differences in the frequency of gynecological diseases, complications of pregnancy course and labour during adaptation to working conditions in the hothouses.
(2) By now it should be clear that Nichols is a strategic thinker as much as an aspiring auteur; a necessary personality trait, perhaps, for someone coming into film-making from outside the NY-LA hothouse.
(3) Stanford University might have been the cradle for a hundred Silicon Valley startups and the hothouse for some of its greatest technical innovations, but the Singularity University is an institution that has been made in the valley's own image: highly networked, fuelled by a cocktail of philanthro-capitalism and endowed with an almost mystical sense of its own destiny.
(4) Cameron and Clegg are creatures of the political hothouse.
(5) Europe, for all its reputation as some kind of dastardly machine for the promotion of crypto-communism, is really just a hothouse environment in which the promised fruits of neoliberalism are forced into ripening more quickly.
(6) The content of lead, cadmium and mercury was determined in various sorts of Polish vegetables grown on soil or in hothouses in the years 1986-1988 using for the determination of Pb and Cd the extraction flame ASA method after dry mineralization at about 400 degrees C and for Hg the flameless ASA method after wet mineralization.
(7) Further investigations should be conducted to determine the vitamin requirements of hothouse workers.
(8) For socially privileged children are forced into a deal not of their choosing, where a normal family-based childhood is traded for the hothousing of entitlement.
(9) Sanchez’s players, by contrast, are hothouse flowers: the carefully groomed sons of the small Qatari middle class, who lack for nothing when it comes to coaching, facilities and preparation.
(10) Yes, he has a 40-year civil service career, but at arm's length from the political and policy hothouse of a Whitehall department.
(11) But just as I blamed the oven, the government looks to schools for failing to hothouse youngsters who are raised in poverty.
(12) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(13) Every year, the elite Ecole nationale d'administration, the hothouse for France's political and administrative class, turns out a new "promotion" of graduate high-flyers.
(14) But this year they destroyed an entire hothouse of tomatoes.
(15) Mathematical analyses classified these changes as a professional pathology of hothouse workers.
(16) Data are analyzed on the frequency of gynecological diseases during the first three years of work in hothouses.
(17) As you meet in your own political hothouse of Brighton for the party's annual conference , what's going wrong?
(18) Despite its splendid isolation, however, this rural region in south-central France – a five-hour drive from the capital – has produced three popes (Clement VI in 1342, Innocent VI in 1352 and Gregory XI in 1370) and will, if François Hollande , is elected, have been the hothouse for two French presidents.
(19) Scientists estimate that if these limestone layers were cooked, they would release levels of the carbon dioxide that would match those on Venus and which would turn our world into a hothouse.
(20) A follow-up (1985, 1990, 1991) study revealed in female workers of hydroponic hothouses an increase of the incidence of nervous system diseases depending on the length of work (vegeto-vascular dystonia, angiodystonic syndromes, vegeto-sensory polyneuropathy).