different between geography vs environment

English

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Etymology

From Middle French géographie, from Latin ge?graphia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ge?graphía, “a description of the earth”), from ?? (gê, “earth”) + ????? (gráph?, “write”).

Use in reference to lavatories derives from the mid-20th century euphemism "show one the geography of the house" in reference to pointing out the toilets.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???????fi/, /?d?????fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?i?????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi
• Hyphenation: ge?og?ra?phy

Noun

geography (countable and uncountable, plural geographies)

1. A description of the earth: a treatise or textbook on geography; (archaic) an atlas or gazetteer.
2. The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
3. Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
   • 1973, Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization

     The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

4. Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
5. (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
6. The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (Britain, slang) a house.
7. (chiefly upper-class Britain, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
   • 1967 December 21, The Listener, p. 802:

     The Business Man Jocular: ‘I say, where's the geography, old son?’

8. (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
9. (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.

Synonyms

• (upper-class British slang for lavatory): loo; see also Thesaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "geography, n."

English

Etymology

From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ +? -ment. Compare French environnement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?va???(n)m?nt/, /?n?va??(n)m?nt/, /-m?nt/, /?n?-/

Noun

environment (plural environments)

1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
2. The natural world or ecosystem.
3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
5. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

6. (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.
7. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

Synonyms

• umbworld

Derived terms

Related terms

• environ
• environmentalist
• environmentalism

Translations

References

• environment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• environment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• environment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.