Environment vs. Culture — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Environment and Culture
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Definitions
Environment➦
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
Survival in an often hostile environment
Culture➦
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group.
Environment➦
The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity
The impact of pesticides on the environment
A parliamentary environment committee
Culture➦
The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group
Edwardian culture.
Japanese culture.
Environment➦
The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans
"Technology, of course, lies at the heart of man's relationship with the environment" (Mark Hertsgaard).
Culture➦
These arts, beliefs, and other products considered with respect to a particular subject or mode of expression
Musical culture.
Oral culture.
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Environment➦
A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem
The coastal environment.
Culture➦
The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group or organization
A manager who changed the corporate culture.
Environment➦
The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms
"Conditions in a lion's environment ... can drive it to hunt people" (Philip Caputo).
Culture➦
Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences
A woman of great culture.
Environment➦
The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.
Culture➦
Special training and development
Voice culture for singers and actors.
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Environment➦
The general set of conditions or circumstances
A terrible environment for doing business.
Culture➦
The cultivation of soil; tillage
The culture of the soil.
Environment➦
The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.
Culture➦
The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.
Environment➦
An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.
Culture➦
The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Environment➦
The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
Culture➦
Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.
Environment➦
The natural world or ecosystem.
Culture➦
To cultivate (soil or plants).
Environment➦
All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
Culture➦
To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.
Environment➦
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
Culture➦
To use (a substance) as a medium for culture
Culture milk.
Environment➦
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
Culture➦
The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
Environment➦
(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
Culture➦
The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
Environment➦
(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
Culture➦
The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
Environment➦
Act of environing; state of being environed.
Culture➦
(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
Environment➦
That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
Culture➦
(botany) Cultivation.
Environment➦
The totality of surrounding conditions;
He longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom
Culture➦
(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
Environment➦
The area in which something exists or lives;
The country--the flat agricultural surround
Culture➦
The growth thus produced.
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
Culture➦
A group of bacteria.
Culture➦
(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
Culture➦
(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
Culture➦
(euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
Culture➦
(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria cultivate}}
Culture➦
(transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest in something cultivate}}
Culture➦
The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Culture➦
The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
If vain our toilWe ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Culture➦
The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture.
The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture.
Culture➦
The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
Culture➦
Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
Culture➦
To cultivate; to educate.
They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured.
Culture➦
A particular society at a particular time and place;
Early Mayan civilization
Culture➦
The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
Culture➦
All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Culture➦
(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar);
The culture of cells in a Petri dish
Culture➦
(bacteriology) the product of cultivating micro-organisms in a nutrient medium
Culture➦
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality;
They performed with great polish
I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose
Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
Culture➦
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization;
The developing drug culture
The reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture
Culture➦
The raising of plants or animals;
The culture of oysters
