hothouse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A heated greenhouse.
2. isim An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.

   “A seed had been planted in Gillies's mind—and as he took up his next assignment, it would be nurtured in the brutal hothouse of frontline surgery.”

3. isim An environment full of conflict or plots.

   “As with much of Carsley's reign, England entered this Athens hothouse with sub-plots in the background, this time the nine withdrawals from the squad which was met with a critical public response from the normally strictly-on-message captain Harry Kane.”

4. isim A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.

   “Let a man ſweat once a weeke in a Hothouſe, and be well rubd and froted with a good plumpe juicie wench, and ſweet linnen, he ſhall ne’re ha’ the Poxe.”

5. isim A heated room for drying greenware.
6. isim A hot state in global climate.

   “Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.”

7. fiil To provide (a child) with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

   “she had such an exceptional grasp of maths in her first two years at the school theyʼd been hothousing her to sit her GCSE Maths two years early”