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forcing house n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc.) is artificially hastened Translations forcing house n (Agr etc) → Gewächshaus nt (fig: = school) → Lernfabrik f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Bergsten praised DeLay because of the congressman's success in brutally forcing House Republicans to support free trade legislation. Such a self-referential approach, however, has again proved a forcing house for structural wizardry, conjured by Arup magus Cecil Balmond. Wordsworth used the train as a metaphor of rape, while in Forster's Howard's End Ma rgaret Schlegel luxuriates in the seductive frisson of the Great Western Express as "a forcing house for the idea of sex. |
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