What does Greenhouse mean?

Definitions for Greenhouse
ˈgrinˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzgreen·house

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Greenhouse.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. greenhouse, nursery, glasshouseadjective

    a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

  2. greenhouseadjective

    of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect

    "greenhouse gases"

Wiktionary

  1. greenhousenoun

    A building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass or plastic.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Greenhousenoun

    A house in which tender plants are sheltered from the weather.

    Etymology: green and house.

    If the season prove exceeding piercing, which you may know by the freezing of a moistened cloth set in your greenhouse, kindle some charcoal. John Evelyn, Kalendar.

    Sometimes our road led us into several hollow apartments among the rocks and mountains, that look like so many natural greenhouses, as being always shaded with a great variety of trees and shrubs that never lose their verdure. Addison.

    A kitchen garden is a more pleasant sight than the finest orangery or artificial greenhouse. Spectator, №. 477.

Wikipedia

  1. Greenhouse

    A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.These structures range in size from small sheds to industrial-sized buildings. A miniature greenhouse is known as a cold frame. The interior of a greenhouse exposed to sunlight becomes significantly warmer than the external temperature, protecting its contents in cold weather. Many commercial glass greenhouses or hothouses are high tech production facilities for vegetables, flowers or fruits. The glass greenhouses are filled with equipment including screening installations, heating, cooling, and lighting, and may be controlled by a computer to optimize conditions for plant growth. Different techniques are then used to manage growing conditions, including air temperature, relative humidity and vapour-pressure deficit, in order to provide the optimum environment for cultivation of a specific crop.

ChatGPT

  1. greenhouse

    A greenhouse is a structure, often made of glass or transparent plastic, that is used for growing and cultivating plants. It is designed to trap the sun's heat, creating a controlled environment that is warmer than the outside climate. This allows for the growth of plants that require specific conditions, year-round growth regardless of outdoor weather conditions, or protection from pests and diseases. Greenhouses may also be used for research purposes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Greenhousenoun

    a house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather

Wikidata

  1. Greenhouse

    A greenhouse is a building in which plants are grown. These structures range in size from small sheds to industrial-sized buildings. A miniature greenhouse is known as a cold frame. A greenhouse is a structural building with different types of covering materials, such as a glass or plastic roof and frequently glass or plastic walls; it heats up because incoming visible solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by plants, soil, and other things inside the building. Air warmed by the heat from hot interior surfaces is retained in the building by the roof and wall. In addition, the warmed structures and plants inside the greenhouse re-radiate some of their thermal energy in the infrared spectrum, to which glass is partly opaque, so some of this energy is also trapped inside the glasshouse. However, this latter process is a minor player compared with the former process. Thus, the primary heating mechanism of a greenhouse is convection. This can be demonstrated by opening a small window near the roof of a greenhouse: the temperature drops considerably. This principle is the basis of the autovent automatic cooling system. Thus, the glass used for a greenhouse works as a barrier to air flow, and its effect is to trap energy within the greenhouse. The air that is warmed near the ground is prevented from rising indefinitely and flowing away.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GREENHOUSE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Greenhouse is ranked #23943 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Greenhouse surname appeared 1,054 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Greenhouse.

    51.5% or 543 total occurrences were White.
    34.6% or 365 total occurrences were Black.
    6.4% or 68 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    4.9% or 52 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.6% or 17 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.8% or 9 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Greenhouse' in Nouns Frequency: #2894

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Greenhouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Greenhouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Greenhouse in a Sentence

  1. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd:

    Due to the current uncertainty surrounding the Government of Alberta's review of royalty, taxation, environmental and greenhouse gas policies, detailed future capital allocation plans for each of the Company's assets cannot be finalized at this time.

  2. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx:

    We are on the cusp of a new era in automotive technology with enormous potential to save lives, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and transform mobility for the American people, today's actions, and those we will pursue in the coming months, will provide the foundation and the path forward for manufacturers, state officials, and consumers to use new technologies and achieve their full safety potential.

  3. Philippus Wester:

    This is a wake-up call, can we come together as humanity and rise to the occasion ? I think we can. Yes, a lot of people want to be in denial. Yes, this is a story we don't want to hear because of our day-to-day issues, but the technology is there, and we have ways of reducing greenhouse gas. I'm Philippus Wester, but time is running out, and we need to address this now, not next year or later. We need to have this conversation now. Otherwise, we are in trouble.

  4. Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan:

    For a long time, we thought carbon dioxide from fossil fuels was the main man-made greenhouse gas harming the planet. That changed overnight when in 1975 I published this paper in which I discovered that there are other gases in the atmosphere which are even more potent.

  5. Gavin Schmidt:

    This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities.

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