What's the difference between hothouse and pinery?

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).

Pinery


Definition:

  • (n.) A pine forest; a grove of pines.
  • (n.) A hothouse in which pineapples are grown.

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