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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
camp
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a camp fire (=a fire that you make outside when you are camping)
▪ In the evening we sat around the camp fire.
a camp/camping site
▪ First they had to look for a camp site.
a camp/camping site
▪ First they had to look for a camp site.
a skiing/camping/walking etc holiday
▪ They went on a camping holiday in France.
an army base/camp
▪ the local army base
boot camp
camp bed
camp follower
concentration camp
day camp
death camp
fat camp
holiday camp
labour camp
prison camp
refugee camps
▪ refugee camps
sporting/camping/skiing etc equipment
▪ Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
summer camp
transit camp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
base
▪ Berry arrived with his party at base camp where he ran into the Kazakh climber Valeri Krishchaty by chance.
▪ The sad thing about it was that most of us felt more at home out in the field than in base camp.
▪ Nearby was the base camp for the New Zealand Division that was away fighting in the front line.
▪ We made it back to base camp, but the machine ran out of fluids just moments after we touched down.
▪ After a while, they dusted me off to base camp.
▪ Consequently, our club got a big play from any and all officer personnel on the base camp.
▪ We walked into this uncovered base camp.
▪ Jim Murphy witnessed the disorder: I remember the sapper attack on the base camp quite well.
military
▪ The family were then living in the military camp at Harmoumou.
▪ Behind the sound board, completely unseen by the audience, were rows of tents that appeared not unlike a military camp.
▪ Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.
▪ Every military camp has a pit, where prisoners are held.
▪ During the Second World War, Rise had a large military camp.
▪ Salisbury, with its great military camps on the Plain is, above all others, the Army diocese.
▪ Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
■ NOUN
bed
▪ Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters off the chrome on the fold-away camp bed.
▪ His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room.
▪ He slept on a camp bed in a room full of the cardboard boxes he had filled with books.
▪ Many men bought their own solar shower bags and camp beds.
▪ Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
▪ We could actually sleep on the camp bed between the midnight and 6am observations.
boot
▪ The men I worked with called it academic boot camp.
▪ Corps officials say initiation into their ranks is difficult enough without mixing men and women in boot camp.
▪ Beetle Bailey will go through boot camp again and again, never to be promoted above private.
▪ However, about 25 percent of those who finished boot camp have had problems while on parole.
▪ For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
▪ Navy doctors say the new shoes have cut blister problems in half since the boot camp started issuing them last July.
concentration
▪ He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.
▪ Anybody who was in a concentration camp as a guard could use that argument.
▪ Would you eat that, unless you were starving to death in a concentration camp? 2.
▪ One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.
▪ It's not like a concentration camp.
▪ Even though it was against Danzig law, these people were all sent to the Reich, presumably to concentration camps.
▪ And we kept another hundred and twenty thousand between 1945 and 1954 in Hitler's old concentration camps.
death
▪ In the spring of 1945, the four girls were transported to four more death camps, once by death march.
detention
▪ More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
fire
▪ Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire.
▪ Flagg denied there were any fires Tuesday, other than normal cooking or camp fires.
▪ In the evening there is a barbecue dinner around the camp fire, followed by a presentation of Meo dances.
▪ They had warm days and clear, cold nights when they sat round the camp fires or stood guard over the horses.
▪ More than 20 died in a camp fire in 1992, and 50 police were injured during a mass breakout in 1996.
▪ Somewhere a camp fire was lit and we were drawn towards it instinctively.
▪ Making camp fires is still one of the most popular of scouting activities.
follower
▪ There's a lot more to Jefferson Airhead than rent-a-baggy camp followers.
▪ Generals, recognizing this, turned blind eyes to the excesses of their troops and were sure to provide camp followers.
▪ Banks, accountants, advertising agencies and many other providers of professional services are the camp followers of the multinational army.
▪ The camp followers however caused problems with the authorities.
▪ Much of the hidden diversity of the ancient camp followers remains, silent and unaltered, within the stocks of today.
▪ The majority of the camp followers were however, good honest women who were the wives and sweethearts of the troops.
▪ Whether neighbour, camp follower or convenient snack, the wolves changed little as their owners were transformed.
holiday
▪ Like a holiday camp it was, endless teas and lectures and displays of magic all afternoon.
▪ Some of these studios are like holiday camps.
▪ This was a major provider of not only walking holidays but also package holidays and holiday camps.
▪ There are already cluster holiday camps.
▪ Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps.
▪ The warning follows tests of pools at schools, hotels, holiday camps and leisure centres in 196 local authorities.
▪ It's absolutely horrifying - makes Holloway look like a holiday camp.
▪ It was in fact the Butlins train, that runs on summer Saturdays to serve the Butlins holiday camp at Pwllheli.
labour
▪ The labour camp itself was supplied from the straits.
▪ In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
▪ A forced labour camp, they call it.
▪ Alexander Solzhenitsyn held much of his work in his mind while he was in a labour camp.
▪ The bleak prospect of the labour camps, slavery in Siberia?
▪ Before you know it, you're freezing your boots off in a Siberian labour camp.
▪ It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps.
▪ Thousands of members have since been detained in labour camps.
prison
▪ I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
▪ In prison camps, cigarettes frequently reach that status.
▪ All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
▪ This is nothing like the bucolic prison camp where his half-sister Carmella is held.
▪ Generally, short hair is associated in the public mind with convicts, prison camp inmates and the military.
▪ Conditions in Farc prison camps were highlighted last year when television showed the captives in barbed-wire compounds in the jungle.
▪ People don't go out and spend millions turning their homes into prison camps unless there is real fear in the air.
▪ I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape.
refugee
▪ We wanted compensation for what a half-century in refugee camps has done to their lives.
▪ He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948.
▪ Villagers from El Barillo ended up in a church-run refugee camp in Calle Real.
▪ Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.
▪ In the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah soldiers shot dead 11-year-old Mohammad Jarbou.
▪ Nurses' housing in the refugee camps was the first step toward what would soon become women-only villages.
▪ As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.
site
▪ But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead.
▪ Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.
▪ There are good fish restaurants and a recently opened camp site with full facilities.
▪ As for Dorrainge's complaints, the camp site they had chosen was very good.
▪ The travellers said that as gypsies the council was obliged by law to give them a camp site.
▪ They also patrol camp sites and parking and picnic places.
summer
▪ Allen said that he called Previn at summer camp in 1991, using the name George Simon.
▪ For Olajuwon, the Dream Team experience has been like a summer camp at a very exclusive boys' club.
▪ Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest.
▪ This year, too, the Pillow experience was like summer camp for the dancers.
▪ It was running like a well-oiled machine, instead of like a slightly out-of-control summer camp.
▪ Also, the West Coast is where my family, summer camps and friends are.
▪ The Sea Cadets had a summer camp in the naval base at Aultbea with good facilities.
▪ The question of whether children were safe at summer camp or not made for much parental discussion and anxiety.
training
▪ They would go to training camp on Friday or Saturday, still no Maradona.
▪ Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps.
transit
▪ The hideous transit camps are emptying.
▪ While they waited, the Joint put them up at a transit camp just outside Vienna.
▪ While in the transit camp at Lowestoft he was offered a choice of hostels in Belfast, Leeds or London.
▪ The decision, following a public inquiry in February, clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp.
■ VERB
break
▪ The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth.
▪ Reaction to the report Thursday broke roughly into two camps.
▪ Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks.
▪ Henderson broke camp with the Padres in a reserve role.
▪ The Black Book seeks to break with this camp mentality of scholarship.
▪ But when it was time to break camp, it was loaded on Ram Rahim.
leave
▪ The women and children were sent into the town until the floods subsided and the men were left to guard the camp.
▪ The conflict between my parents was the last real barrier to leaving the camps.
▪ The majority of the displaced are therefore reluctant to leave the camps and prefer what little protection the church can offer.
▪ We got hit about 3 hours af-ter we left camp.
▪ Half an hour after leaving camp, I saw the same lorry, pulled off the road beside a derelict shack.
▪ Amelia was one of 40, 000 sick and starving prisoners left in the camp.
▪ Abdul Aziz Rantisi said they would all leave their camp or none would.
▪ Nor did I dare tell anyone that I did not want to leave the camps.
live
▪ In the seventies everyone seemed to live in a trailer camp or in the crevice of a mountain.
▪ More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.
▪ Hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps and towns near the fighting were scattered and set adrift.
▪ Do your readers know what it is like to live in a refugee camp?
▪ Who else is living in that camp there?
▪ How did people live in the camps, how did some survive, how did some defend themselves?
▪ Beginning in 1976, they withdrew from public view, living in camps in Wyoming and then houses in Dallas and Denver.
pitch
▪ Then, as abruptly as it had pitched camp, the caravan moved on.
▪ Lugh would make the decisions about where they pitched camp and how much bear meat they brought.
▪ That evening they pitched their camp on a shoulder of dry ground above a valley, thankful for the respite.
run
▪ He cycled out of 3-Wing on to the Hay-on-Wye road that ran through the camp.
▪ Captain Vilcins, who had studied in Paris, ran the camp administrative board with decisiveness and style.
▪ It is when the Captain, who runs the camp, picks S. for his exclusive use that the novel peaks.
▪ There is a sewage system, hand-dug, which replaced the open trenches that ran through the camp until recently.
▪ Once the service was over the men would start work on the railway that ran alongside the camp.
▪ The next it is two sisters in Rhode Island who run a summer camp for mentally retarded children.
send
▪ Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps, along with bureaucrats doing two weeks' hard labour.
▪ There were the political prisoners, sent to concentration camps, who continued to help the Allies.
▪ I suppose I was lucky, I could have been sent to a camp.
▪ Their movements were restricted, though relatively few were sent to camps.
▪ The less fortunate are robbed of everything and sent to labour camps.
▪ Except for her bright clothing, she was decked out like some one about to be sent to a boot camp.
▪ Burun had sent Jotan on to the camp.
▪ To join or be sent to a concentration camp.
set
▪ Downing Street's double glazing must have proved invaluable as the camera corps set up camp and squabbled on the doorstep.
▪ Rescue workers, police and other law enforcement agencies set up camp on a levee beside the canal.
▪ Exploring the terrain or even setting up camp leave too many things wide open.
▪ As everyone now knows, we set up camp nearly in the middle of a Viet Cong stronghold.
▪ However, many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city, which does not have an official site.
▪ Needless to say, entire platoons of soldiers set up camp at his tomb before battle.
▪ An opera set in the camps would be a very different thing.
▪ It boggles my mind how much money it must have cost to set up each base camp.
train
▪ Hamed will go on a publicity tour around the States next week before entering training camp on February 16.
▪ Yet Owens is the prize rookie of training camp.
▪ But equally worrying to the security forces was the age of two of the recruits who were being trained at the camp.
▪ Collins was benched last week, the result of a series of events that began in training camp with a broken jaw.
▪ Washington signed late and missed most of training camp.
▪ Raiders owner Al Davis then switched Williams to tight end during training camp.
▪ In idle moments, I have often pictured Id! in the training camps, climbing netted gantries.
▪ The Oilers will open training camp in Nashville on July 18.
visit
▪ We drank from the crocodile-infested river, and lions visited the camp every night.
▪ Clinton is the fifth president to visit the camp.
▪ It was like visiting a Tartar camp!
▪ The President has already visited a similar camp run by Paul Newman in Connecticut.
▪ But the ski instructress died trying to fulfill her biggest ambition - to visit the Everest base camp.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
happy camper
▪ Loville is not a happy camper.
have a foot in both camps
pitch a tent/pitch camp
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A girl's basketball camp is being organized by the City Recreation Department.
▪ a mining camp in the Yukon
▪ College students work at a camp for kids from the inner city, leading craft activities and sports competitions.
▪ He's going to a Boy Scout summer camp for two weeks in August.
▪ If you like camp, you'll probably enjoy the movie.
▪ summer camp
▪ The camp is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
▪ The kids will be at camp all day.
▪ The YMCA is running a day camp with crafts, sports, and water fun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ancient camp sites are still used by people eager to relearn old ways.
▪ Both camps have long been bound together by a shared interest in the punter's pound.
▪ He races through a mining camp towards his 20-room mansion with oak floors and a second floor balcony.
▪ Illegal immigrants would be expelled using chartered transport after being housed in camps set up at ports and airports.
▪ More than half of the displaced persons live in camps with inadequate shelter.
▪ She jack-knifed into a sitting position and hastily surveyed their camp.
▪ Takat Singh ushered me back to camp.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild's floor, joined the staff.
▪ But camped out in their front yard, so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
▪ For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life.
▪ It may be a special place where you like to camp out.
▪ They're hippies or gypsies or squatters or whatever, and they've already started camping out there as best they can.
▪ There are two Los Angeles Times reporters camped out there.
▪ The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees.
▪ We will get some money that normally camps out in stocks going over to the bonds for a while.
there
▪ It was less than an hour from dusk, and we would have camped there had it been left to me.
▪ There were often transient correspondents camped there.
▪ I want your assurance that you will always allow genuine gipsies to camp there.
▪ Many newcomers were upset that they would be unable to camp there after having made reservations months in advance.
▪ Many of the dead had camped there.
■ NOUN
concentration
▪ At the public library downtown I return obsessively to the photographs of concentration camps.
night
▪ Last night we camped a metre short of the border, a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.
▪ Thompson recommends campers come as early as possible on Friday nights for weekend camping.
▪ Their demeanor grew more serious the following night as we camped on a peninsula above the lake.
▪ Hundreds of them had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk in the numbing midwinter cold.
refugee
▪ They ofren grew on the sites, indeed out of the debris, of old refugee camps.
site
▪ We camped in the official site at Skaftafell.
▪ Twin Lakes Fish Camp provides trailer hookups, tent camping sites, and several little cottages.
▪ Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended.
▪ Towards mid-afternoon we camped close to the site of the old Shyok dam.
■ VERB
go
▪ And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping.
▪ Einar always had his car when we went camping.
▪ He supported orphanages and schools, underprivileged children went on camping holidays at his expense.
▪ In her story, Bunting writes about Lin, who is afraid to leave home to go to camp.
▪ Alyssa is going to camp, and Jason and Alex have summer jobs.
▪ There, they rehearsed, improvised, went camping and played, with Williams becoming one of the boys.
▪ They have this experience, and then they can go camping on their own.
▪ A handful of children went to camp the first year with money provided by the House.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
camping gear/equipment
happy camper
▪ Loville is not a happy camper.
have a foot in both camps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A family was camped on a sandy beach under the trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the first 20 minutes, Ipswich were all over their visitors and were camped permanently in their half.
▪ On our march we camped one night in a vacant lot adjoining a female seminary at Gordonsville.
▪ She had her own fishing pole and hiking boots, a sleeping bag in case they decided to camp out.
▪ The soldiers camped nearby also ran to help.
▪ They always camped at Dartmeet in summer.
III.adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
camping gear/equipment
happy camper
▪ Loville is not a happy camper.
have a foot in both camps
pitch a tent/pitch camp
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ That outfit is so camp.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camp

Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Camped (k[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Camping.] To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together.
--Shak.

Camp

Camp \Camp\, v. i.

  1. To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.

    They camped out at night, under the stars.
    --W. Irving.

  2. [See Camp, n., 6] To play the game called camp. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Tusser.

Camp

Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. Campaign, Champ, n.]

  1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
    --Shak.

  2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

    Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston.
    --W. Irving.

  3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

  4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

    The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
    --Macaulay.

  5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

  6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
    --Halliwell.

    Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.

    camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.

    Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.

    Camp fever, typhus fever.

    Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.

    Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.

    Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.

    Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another.
    --Farrow.

    To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.

    To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
camp

"place where an army lodges temporarily," 1520s, from French camp, from Italian campo, from Latin campus "open field, level space" (also source of French champ; see campus), especially "open space for military exercise."\n

\nA later reborrowing of the Latin word, which had been taken up in early West Germanic as *kampo-z and appeared originally in Old English as camp "contest, battle, fight, war." This was obsolete by mid-15c. Transferred to non-military senses 1550s. Meaning "body of adherents of a doctrine or cause" is 1871. Camp-follower first attested 1810. Camp-meeting is from 1809, originally usually in reference to Methodists. Camp-fever (1758) is any epidemic fever incident to life in a camp, especially typhus or typhoid.\n\n\n

camp

"tasteless," 1909, homosexual slang, of uncertain origin, perhaps from mid-17c. French camper "to portray, pose" (as in se camper "put oneself in a bold, provocative pose"); popularized 1964 by Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp." Campy is attested from 1959.

camp

"to encamp," 1540s, from camp (n.). Related: Camped; camping. Camping out is attested from 1834, American English.

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Wiktionary
camp

init. (context medicine English) (initialism of cyclic AMP English)

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WordNet
camp

adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's" [syn: campy]

camp

  1. v. live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent]

  2. establish or set up a camp [syn: camp down]

  3. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

camp

  1. n. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: encampment, cantonment, bivouac]

  2. a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"

  3. temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"

  4. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack]

  5. a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners"

  6. something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"

  7. shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs [syn: refugee camp]

  8. a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months; "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp" [syn: summer camp]

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Gazetteer
Camp -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 11549
Housing Units (2000): 5228
Land area (2000): 197.510922 sq. miles (511.550919 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.686609 sq. miles (14.728248 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 203.197531 sq. miles (526.279167 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.983837 N, 95.000064 W
Headwords:
Camp
Camp, TX
Camp County
Camp County, TX
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Wikipedia
Camp

Camp may refer to:

Câmp

Câmp may refer to several villages in Romania:

  • Câmp, a village in the town of Vaşcău, Bihor County
  • Câmp, a village in Urmeniș Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County
Camp (2003 film)

Camp is a 2003 independent musical film, written and directed by Todd Graff, about an upstate New York performing arts summer camp. The film is based on Graff's own experiences at a similar camp called Stagedoor Manor, where many scenes of the movie were filmed.

CAMP (gene)

CAMP (gene) may refer to:

  • Cathelicidin, an antimicrobial peptide
  • 2,5-diketocamphane 1,2-monooxygenase, an enzyme
Camp (TV series)

Camp is an American-Australian comedy-drama television series that follows the antics of a group of campers and counselors at a lakeside summer camp named Little Otter Family Camp, run by director Mackenzie 'Mack' Granger played by Rachel Griffiths. The series was created by Liz Heldens and Peter Elkoff. Camp aired on NBC for one season from July 10 through September 11, 2013.

On October 1, 2013, NBC cancelled Camp after one season.

Camp (style)

Camp is a social, cultural, and aesthetic style and sensibility based on deliberate and self-acknowledged theatricality. Camp aesthetics disrupt many modernists' notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption.

Camp can also be a social practice. For many it is considered a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. "Camp aesthetics delights in impertinence." Camp opposes satisfaction and seeks to challenge.

Camp art is related to—and often confused with— kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as "cheesy". When the usage appeared in 1909, it denoted ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, and/or effeminate behavior, and by the middle of the 1970s, the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal. American writer Susan Sontag's essay " Notes on 'Camp'" (1964) emphasized its key elements as: artifice, frivolity, naive middle-class pretentiousness, and 'shocking' excess. Camp as an aesthetic has been popular from the 1960s to the present.

Camp aesthetics were popularised by filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar, Jack Smith and his film Flaming Creatures, and later John Waters, including the last's Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, and Polyester. Celebrities that are associated with camp personas include drag queens and performers such as Dame Edna Everage, Divine, RuPaul, Paul Lynde, and Liberace. Camp was a part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the 1960s and gained popularity in the 1980s with the widespread adoption of postmodern views on art and culture.

Camp (Falkland Islands)

The Camp is the term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside the islands' only significant town, Stanley, and often the large RAF base at Mount Pleasant. It is derived from the Spanish word campo, for "countryside".

The Camp contains various small settlements, such as Fox Bay, Goose Green, Darwin, and Port Howard, which are usually little more than several houses. Port Louis in the north of East Falkland is the oldest permanent settlement in the islands, established by the French in 1764. Port Egmont on Saunders Island, now abandoned, is the oldest British settlement. The majority of the Camp population lives on East Falkland, followed by West Falkland. Outlying islands such as Pebble, Sea Lion, West Point, Weddell and Carcass Island are inhabited as well. Camp is used in formal contexts: e.g. the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly has Stanley and Camp constituencies.

There are also some British military installations such as RAF Mount Pleasant, Mare Harbour, and Mount Alice, and there is also the Bodie Suspension Bridge, the southernmost of its kind in the world. Many parts are still landmined from the time of the Falklands War, particularly just outside Stanley.

Officially, the Falklands uses UTC-3 in the summer months (and since September 2010 has been on UTC-3 permanently) but many residents of Camp use UTC-4 all year round, known on the Falklands as "Camp Time". This caused confusion in 2009 when a team of Royal Engineers working in Hill Cove did not realise West Falkland was on a different time zone from Stanley.

Sheep farming is the main industry. Others include fishing, and tourism (particularly wildlife or war-related tours). The Camp is represented by three members of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, currently Roger Edwards, Ian Hansen and Phyl Rendell.

Camp (1965 film)

Camp ( 1965) is a feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol in October 1965 at The Factory. The film stars Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, Tally Brown, Mario Montez, Jack Smith, Paul Swan, Dorothy Dean, and Tosh Carillo.

CAMP (company)

CAMP (also spelled C.A.M.P. and called Camp, which stands for "Costruzione Articoli Montagna Premana") (English Translation: "Construction Articles Mountains Premana") is one of the world's leading manufacturers of equipment for climbing and associated activities such as ski mountaineering and industrial safety. The company is based in Italy.

CAMP manufactures a wide range of products, including ice axes, crampons, ice screws, pitons, carabiners, nuts, tricams, camming devices, harnesses, helmets, rucksacks, tents, ski racing clothing, and various snow tools.

The company was founded by Nicola Codega, a blacksmith, in 1889 in the Italian alpine village of Premana, where it is still based. Originally producing wrought-iron goods, an order in 1920 for ice axes for the Italian army was their first foray into the world of climbing equipment. From there the company extended its climbing range to include crampons, pitons, and nuts, and eventually with the encouragement of leading mountaineer Riccardo Cassin and collaboration with American climber Greg Lowe (founder of Lowe Alpine), into non-metallic equipment. The company is still run by Codega's descendants.

Camp (surname)

Camp is an English surname taken from Latin roots. The name is found in Great Britain and in other places throughout the world settled by the English. According to the 2000 census there are fewer than 1300 Camps in the UK. The 2000 US census puts the number at over 27,000, making it the 1087th most common name in America, after McDermott. The Australian government currently reports 465 persons named Camp. The governments of Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa do not currently provide lists of surnames as the UK and others do. Totals outside the English-speaking world are also unknown.

Camp (album)

Camp is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Childish Gambino. It was released on November 15, 2011, by Glassnote Records. Upon the releases of four of his mixtapes and three of his independent albums, he then signed a deal to Glassnote Records and begin the recording sessions for Camp, marking it as his first album on a major record label. Camp was co-produced in its entirety by long-time collaborator Ludwig Göransson.

Camp received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 69, based on 27 reviews. In the United States, the album debuted at number 11 on the Billboard 200, selling 52,000 copies in the first week.

Camp (constituency)

Camp is a constituency of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands which has been in existence since 1977. The constituency of Camp consists of the area of the same name, which is all parts of the territory outside Stanley and RAF Mount Pleasant. Camp is one of two constituencies in the Falklands, the other being Stanley.

The Camp constituency was created at the 1977 election with the implementation of the Falkland Islands (Legislative Council) (Amendment) Order 1977, initially electing one member to the Legislative Council (the predecessor of the Legislative Assembly). In 1985 the Falkland Islands Constitution came into force which increased the number of members from Camp to four, elected through block voting. This was reduced to three in 1997 following a constitutional amendment. In 2009 a new constitution came into force which replaced the Legislative Council with the Legislative Assembly, with all members of the Legislative Council becoming members of the new Legislative Assembly.

In referenda in 2001 and 2011, a proposal was put to the people of the Falklands for the Stanley and Camp constituencies to be abolished and replaced with a single constituency for the entire territory. The proposal was rejected on both occasions.

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Usage examples of "camp".

Even now they are doubtless marching on this camp, for they were sent by Menelek to punish Achmet Zek and his followers for a raid upon an Abyssinian village.

Her father prays for help to Apollo, who sends a plague that devastates the Achaean camp.

Patroclus, sent by Achilles to find out how things stand in the Achaean camp, brings back the news and also pleads with Achilles to relent.

Somehow I had received that dagger from Odysseus, king of Ithaca, in the Achaian camp outside the walls of Troy.

Field in Philadelphia the previous April, Adams had been overcome by the thought that more than 2,000 American soldiers had already been buried there, nearly all victims of smallpox and camp diseases.

CAMPING OUT A WILDERNESS ROMANCE WHAT SOME PEOPLE CALL PLEASURE HOW I KILLED A BEAR So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts.

But, of course, the edge was taken off the report by the assumption of the miraculous birth of Jesus from the Holy Spirit, so that the Adoptians in recognising this, already stood with one foot in the camp of their opponents.

Antony might do when he found out that his brother was dead, Brutus put some of his legions into camp along the river Granicus in Bithynia, and ordered the rest to march back into the west as far as Thessalonica while he himself raced ahead to see exactly what was happening on the Adriatic coast of Macedonia.

The big alligator farms pulled people in, and then they stayed and paid good tourist dollars for airboat rides, canoe treks along the endless canals at sunset, and even camping in traditional chickees.

See, the concept was to build an airstrip and then airland everything you needed to keep the camp going.

Two days later, word came that Mark Antony was fast approaching Rome on the Via Valeria with the Legio Alauda, which he put into camp at Tibur, not far away.

Caesar left the rest still standing, erected a strongly fortified camp equipped with one tower tall enough to see into Germania for miles, and garrisoned it with the Fifth Alauda under the command of Gaius Volcatius Tullus.

Strangely enough, the Alemanni preferred to camp on the outskirts or, even better, in the surrounding woods and fields.

None of them cared for the mourning cries of Elenn ap Allel, alone in the center of the camp of Connat.

The heat on this day was the same at both the Zen temple in Amagasaki and the camp at Shimo Toba.