Definitions for GREENHOUSE
ˈgrinˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzgreen·house

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Greenhousenoun

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

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. greenhouse

   The greenhouse symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the greenhouse symbol and its characteristic.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

How to pronounce GREENHOUSE?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say GREENHOUSE in sign language?

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. Nigel Sizer:

   Think about greenhouse gas emissions -- driving less, buy a more fuel efficient car.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   One of the questions the Court has agreed to take up in these cases is whether, in delegating the power to The EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress exceeded those limits, if the Court says yes, that will not just curtail the EPA's power to respond to climate change in a moment in which it's hard to imagine that Congress will fill the gap ; it would have enormous implications for -- and impose far greater limits on -- the federal government's regulatory power writ large.

3. Paul Fischbeck:

   Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon, lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think. Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken.

4. Gavin Schmidt:

   Global warming is happening, and I always sound like a broken record because we've basically broken the climate, we need to keep tracking what's happening to the planet. And even though it's doing what we expect, it's getting warmer because we've got more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We don't get any satisfaction as scientists from being proven right on this. We would much rather have been wrong.

5. Nicholas II of Russia:

   In the morning I warmed myself while sitting on the greenhouse roof.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=GREENHOUSE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Greenhouse
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=GREENHOUSE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GREENHOUSE
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GREENHOUSE
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html