(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).