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Meaning of "hothousing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOTHOUSING

hothousing  [ˈhɒthaʊzɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOTHOUSING

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hothousing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOTHOUSING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hothousing

Hothousing is a controversial form of education for children, involving intense study of a topic in order to stimulate the child's mind. Advocates of the practice claim that it is essential for the brightest to flourish intellectually, while critics claim that it does more harm than good and can lead a child to abandon the area studied under such a scheme later in life.

Definition of hothousing in the English dictionary

The definition of hothousing in the dictionary is the practice of teaching children to high level at an earlier than usual age. Other definition of hothousing is the practice of providing intense, special training to young people who are good at sport, particularly football.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOTHOUSING


arousing
əˈraʊzɪŋ
brown-nosing
ˈbraʊnˌnəʊzɪŋ
closing
ˈkləʊzɪŋ
cohousing
ˌkəʊˈhaʊzɪŋ
dowsing
ˈdaʊzɪŋ
housing
ˈhaʊzɪŋ
imposing
ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ
mousing
ˈmaʊzɪŋ
nonhousing
ˌnɒnˈhaʊzɪŋ
nosing
ˈnəʊzɪŋ
opposing
əˈpəʊzɪŋ
rabble-rousing
ˈræbəlraʊzɪŋ
rousing
ˈraʊzɪŋ
self-closing
ˌsɛlfˈkləʊzɪŋ
unimposing
ˌʌnɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ
unreposing
ˌʌnrɪˈpəʊzɪŋ
warehousing
ˈwɛəˌhaʊzɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOTHOUSING

hotel work
hotel worker
hoteldom
hotelier
hotelman
Hotere
hotfoot
hothead
hothouse
hothoused
Hotien
hotline
hotly
hotness
hotplate
hotpot
hotrod car
hots
hotshot
hotspur

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOTHOUSING

accusing
alternating-gradient focusing
amusing
bemusing
busing
cancer-causing
confusing
council housing
data warehousing
differential housing
government housing
high-density housing
increasing
musing
pausing
public housing
roughhousing
sheltered housing
social housing
terraced housing
unamusing

Synonyms and antonyms of hothousing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hothousing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOTHOUSING

Find out the translation of hothousing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hothousing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hothousing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hothousing
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hothousing
570 millions of speakers

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hothousing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hothousing
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hothousing
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hothousing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hothousing
270 millions of speakers

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hothousing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hothousing
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersuara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hothousing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hothousing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hothousing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hothousing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hothousing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hothousing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घोडेस्वार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hothousing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hothousing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hothousing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hothousing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hothousing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hothousing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hothousing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hothousing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hothousing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hothousing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOTHOUSING»

The term «hothousing» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.624 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOTHOUSING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hothousing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOTHOUSING»

Discover the use of hothousing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hothousing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Psychology of Effective Learning and Teaching
Whereas the aim of Headstart projects is to enrich the environments of disadvantaged children in order to raise them to 'normal' levels of intellectual functioning, hothousing seeks to take 'normal' or bright children and boost them to a level of ...
Matt Jarvis, 2005
2
Angles on Child Psychology
Sigel (1987) first used the term 'hothousing' as an analogy with the way in which vegetables are forced to ripen earlier than normal by placing them in a greenhouse. There have been many case studies where children have been taught skills ...
Matt Jarvis, Emma Chandler, 2001
3
Statistics Explained
the IQ scale than the usual-IQ distribution, giving a higher mean, then we can say that hothousing does increase IQ scores. (We might not know why but we will have shown that it does.) In Figure 4.1 the two distributions are positioned to show ...
Perry R. Hinton, 2014
4
Business Analysis Techniques: 72 Essential Tools for Success
Use case Chosen Figure 6.2 Hothousing process scenarios prototype MeasureagainstPIR'handshake' Hothouse session Business problems 90-day release cycle –PIR'handshake' (measurable target and objectives) (timebox) Business ...
James Cadle, Debra Paul, Paul Turner, 2010
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Power Up Your Mind: Learn Faster, Work Smarter
Hothousing. ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ You have probably heard the expression “a hothouse of ideas.” It conjures up the image of a person or team brimming with creative concepts. But, what is it about a hothouse that could usefully be applied to the ...
Bill Lucas, 2001
6
Dictionary of Psychology
Despite a great deal of interest and involvement in hothousing, it has not been the subject of much psychological research. There is, however, sufficient evidence to suggest that early training can produce significant gains in a number of ...
Mike Cardwell, 2014
7
Early Socialisation: Sociability and Attachment
Development of intelligence Hothousing There are some people who believe that if children receive extra stimulation during early development they will experience significant and lasting IQ gains. The term 'hothousing' was coined to suggest ...
Cara Flanagan, 2002
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Early Childhood Policy and Research: Selected Papers from ...
Fein has summed up the hothouse approach very succinctly in this way: The problem of 'hothousing' lies not in asking so much, or even too much of our children, but in asking it non-negotiably too soon. (Fein, 1987, p.228l Other opponents of ...
‎1990
9
Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics: Expert Consult - Online ...
Parental Overstimulation or Perfectionism In recent years, numerous social factors have contributed to “hothousing” (Katz and Becher, 1987), or overstructuring of the lives of children. Elkind (2001) wrote The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too ...
William B. Carey, Allen C. Crocker, Ellen Roy Elias, 2009
10
Caring for America's children
But despite moments of scholarly levity, an array of experts gave serious attention to the issue of early learning, raising the longstanding debate to new sophistication at the symposium, "The Hothousing of Young Children : So Much, So Soon.
Carol A. Emig, Family Focus, inc, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOTHOUSING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hothousing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Did your child become dumber over the school holidays?
Doctor Michael Carr-Gregg is a critic of hothousing which he says has long been a cultural expectation in nations such as South Korea, ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Sherlock: Everything you need to know from the Comic-Con panel in …
00:28Moffat loves fanfiction and fan art – "It's hothousing talent" – but they simply can't converse with it. "We're doing our version, and you're ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
3
Weber: Herdman's hope for Canada
People can say 'That's unfair. That's hothousing.' But if you can keep the connection with the high-performance leagues, then everyone wins.”. «The Province, Jul 15»
4
Herdman's hope for Canada
People can say 'That's unfair. That's hothousing.' But if you can keep the connection with the high-performance leagues, then everyone wins.”. «The Province, Jul 15»
5
Big Sean review – Kanye protege on the rise
After growing up on Detroit's west side, the fractious rapper was handpicked at the age of 20 to join West's talent-hothousing label Good Music ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Big school, small children: what a difference a year makes
In fact, too much hothousing during the summer “is going to take the element of fun and surprise out of the teaching for them”, says Kate Divilly, ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
7
Tuesday's best TV
Yet her victory was undeniably overshadowed by the unsavoury hothousing endured by many of her fellow contestants, coached from infancy ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
8
Father's Day 2015: 17 things you appreciate about your dad when …
Some parents try to relive their life through their children, hothousing them to become the tennis player, violinist, footballer or guitarist they wish ... «Metro, Jun 15»
9
Analysis: the political headache of a senior officer accused of cheating
... he joined a few dozen other officers, mostly chief superintendents, for two months of hothousing, preparation for a job he was already doing. «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
10
Let's pause before drinking the 'coding in schools' Kool-Aid
... something that we haven't even heard of yet – and no amount of predicting the future and hothousing them in today's most desirable skills ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hothousing [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hothousing>. May 2024 ».
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