greenhouse
IPA: grˈinhaʊs
noun
- A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
- (UK military slang, dated) The glass of a plane's cockpit.
- (medicine) A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.
- (climatology) A hot state in global climate.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To place (plants) in a greenhouse.
- (transitive, figurative) To nurture in order to promote growth.
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Examples of "greenhouse" in Sentences
- The greenhouse gases also radiate in the infrared range.
- I seem to be a latecomer to the greenhouse effect discussion.
- The class enters the greenhouse and begins picking strawberries.
- In the atmosphere, as in the greenhouse, sunlight heats the surface.
- The hedge in the backgroound was intended to screen the greenhouses.
- It is very conveniently located to the greenhouses and the turtle pond.
- Students in the Greenhouse live in an environmentally responsible manner.
- The fertile pond water was used for irrigating the crops in the greenhouses.
- There are gaping errors in the Change in greenhouse gas emission since 1990.
- Seafloor seeps have the potential to release potent greenhouse gases like methane.
- At best, a greenhouse is a very simplistic model for something as complex as global climate.
- So we have this problem, the increase of carbon dioxide, which we call a greenhouse gas because it makes our atmosphere more like a greenhouse, and warms it.
- Not to mention the carbon footprint double whammy – not only will the lighting cause an increase in greenhouse gasses, but now there's one lett tree to absorb the CO2 ...
- Its really unfortunate that we have to use the term greenhouse when refering to what happens in the atmosphere because it does not relate well or at all to what happens in a ral greenhouse.
- Following an extensive theoretical analysis, two German physicists have determined (pdf) that the term greenhouse gas is a misnomer and that the greenhouse effect appears to violate basic laws of physics.
- The carbon dioxide molecule O=C=O contains two double bonds and has a linear shape.” Oh, and that particular molecular structure traps heat near the planet that would otherwise radiate back out into space, giving rise to what we call the greenhouse effect.
- Anyway, the Harvard Square ABP has a glassed-in greenhouse where you can sit and drink your warming beverage while looking out at the university -- and in the way of things, that greenhouse is inhabited by a couple of smart, fat sparrows who are much snugger (and smugger) than the sparrows still stuck outside.
- Posted Jul 17, 2006 at 2:41 AM | Permalink | Reply re 194 and 195: gb, I don’t think anyone at this site is questioning the fact that CO2 is a radiatively active gas I hate the term greenhouse as greenhouses operate on a different physical principle, but it is just one of many including CH4, N2O and most importantly of all H2O.
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