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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| culture (ˈkʌltʃə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action |
| 2. | the total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group: the Mayan culture |
| 3. | a particular civilization at a particular period |
| 4. | the artistic and social pursuits, expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners, dress, etc |
| 5. | the enlightenment or refinement resulting from these pursuits |
| 6. | the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour that characterize and inform society as a whole or any social group within it: yob culture |
| 7. | the cultivation of plants, esp by scientific methods designed to improve stock or to produce new ones |
| 8. | stockbreeding the rearing and breeding of animals, esp with a view to improving the strain |
| 9. | the act or practice of tilling or cultivating the soil |
| 10. | biology |
| a. See also culture medium the experimental growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, in a nutrient substance (culture medium), usually under controlled conditions | |
| b. a group of microorganisms grown in this way | |
| —vb | |
| 11. | to cultivate (plants or animals) |
| 12. | to grow (microorganisms) in a culture medium |
| [C15: from Old French, from Latin cultūra a cultivating, from colere to till; see | |
| 'culturist | |
| —n | |
| 'cultureless | |
| —adj | |