(n.) A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lead retailer Whole Foods is busy fitting out a 17,000 square foot store, which opens onto the newly pedestrianised Glasshouse Street and is expected to open next spring.
(2) In this paper appropriate safety levels are proposed for these classes of microorganisms in order to ensure that research, development and industrial fermentation work with plant pathogens will limit the risk of outbreaks of diseases in crops that could result from work with such microorganisms when they are cultivated in laboratories, glasshouses and biotechnology installations.
(3) I am pretty satisfied with where I am but I don’t like throwing stones in a glasshouse because you just don’t know,” he said.
(4) N-Tritylmorpholine (Frescon, WL 8008) has been applied as an emulsifiable concentrate (FX 28) to cotton and rice in glasshouse experiments without any adverse effects.
(5) Uniform application to all logs in a glasshouse effectively eradicated the mite infestation.
(6) The building includes a large branch of US retailer Whole Foods, opening onto the newly pedestrianised Glasshouse Street, along with other shops and two restored Art Deco restaurants, and will be the largest office-led development to come to market in the West End next year.
(7) Under glasshouse conditions, various cornstarches and adjuvants were examined as encapsulating agents in sprayable formulations for Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.
(8) The spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: “These changes would not affect research as it is currently carried out in Scotland, where the contained use of GM plants is permitted for scientific purposes, for example in laboratories or sealed glasshouse facilities.’’ Richard Lochhead, Scotland’s environment secretary, said he wanted to uphold the precautionary principle – that the potential risks to other crops and wildlife from GMOs outweighed the likely benefits of the technology – by banning the commercialisation of GM crops.
(9) Leaders will begin discussions over dinner this evening at the Phipps Conservatory, an ornate 19th-century glasshouse in Pittsburgh's botanical gardens, before proceeding to an all-day session of talks on Friday.
(10) This period is to be regarded as a tentative waiting-period that must be respected after the treatment of glasshouse tomatoes with Flordimex.
(11) Compared to glasshouse studies undertaken previously, residues in crops grown under field conditions were much lower.
(12) In order to test herbicides for the destruction of illicit stands of cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) a series of commercially available herbicides were sprayed on glasshouse-grown plants having 2 to 6 leaves.
(13) This indicates an enhanced persistence of B. thuringiensis under glasshouse conditions.
(14) A large vote for the anti-parties will mean the European parliament buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg become glasshouses full of people throwing stones; but the mainstream parties will then pull together to create a de facto grand coalition.
(15) In extensive glasshouse tests, GRAV-dependent transmission of GRV by A. craccivora occurred only from groundnut plants infected with satellite-containing isolates of GRV.
(16) For best results, grow on a sunny windowsill or in a cool glasshouse, but most sarracenia are hardy enough to grow outdoors.
(17) Mutations occurred at high frequencies in plants grown in the field, in a glasshouse, or as leaf tip cultures under fluorescent light, indicating that the plastome mutator activity is UV-independent.
Greenhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
(3) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(4) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
(5) But Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director of the Wilderness Society, says the new data shows Australia is “lying to the world and lying to ourselves” about the true state of greenhouse emissions.
(6) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
(7) Administration officials, briefing reporters ahead of the speech, said Obama would reiterate his commitment to cutting America's greenhouse gas emissions 17% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.
(8) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
(9) Power plants alone account for about a third of America's greenhouse gas emissions.
(10) I learned about this more extreme form of PMS a couple of weeks ago, at a conference dinner, where I ended up sitting next to Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol.
(11) Tackling deforestation, which contributes up to 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions, took a step forward, with the UK, along with Japan, Norway, America, France and Australia, agreeing that by 2010 a total of $3.5bn would be spent on saving trees.
(12) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
(13) The UK government's plan to push Europe to deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions has been dashed by the EU's energy chief.
(14) The federal court is being asked to overturn the environment minister, Greg Hunt’s approval of Indian company Adani’s $16.5bn Queensland coalmine because he did not take into account the impact on the Great Barrier Reef of the greenhouse gases emitted when the coal is burned.
(15) The US president is under pressure to show he can deliver on his promises to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions — especially as China's president, Hu Jintao, is expected to announce a new climate initiative at the summit.
(16) It’s just one piece of New York’s air quality strategy, which also aims at slashing greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, says Mark Chambers, director of the mayor’s Office of Sustainability.
(17) The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said the new policy balanced three challenges: the need to ensure the security of the UK's energy supply, the need to build a low-carbon economy and the need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
(18) An unprecedented alliance of business, welfare and environmental groups and trade unions recently demanded an end to Australia’s climate policy paralysis , issuing principles including that Australia be able to buy cheaper international permits, and that greenhouse reductions occur “across all sections of the economy”.
(19) In Barcelona, where last-ditch negotiations are taking place, it became clear today the best hope for Copenhagen is a "politically binding" agreement, which rich countries hope will have all the key elements of the final deal, including specific targets and timetables for greenhouse gas emissions cuts and money for poor countries to cope with climate change.
(20) Even before the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had put climate change on the international political map with a landmark speech in 1988, the company was doing ground-breaking work into photovoltaic solar panels, wave power and domestic energy efficiency as part of a wider drive to understand how greenhouse gas emissions could be curbed.