CAMP may stand for:
- Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)
- Cathelicidin, or Cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide
- Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
- Central Atlantic Magmatic Province
- CAMP (company), an Italian manufacturer of climbing equipment
- CAMP (band), a Swiss indie rock band
- CAMP-phenomenon, a diagnostic method in microbiology, named after Christie, Atkins and Munch-Petersen
- Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership
- Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics
- CAMP (software), an introspection C++ library developed by Tegesoft
Other articles related to "camp, camps":
... During World War II, Tonkawa was home to Camp Tonkawa, a Prisoner of War camp ... Camp Tonkawa remained in operation from August 30, 1943 to September 1, 1945 ...
... by the Japanese on Luzon, mostly in internment camps scattered throughout the island ... and a few civilians that had escaped the camp, Vanderpool established that it was surrounded by two barbed-wire fences approximately six feet tall ... Vanderpool was informed that the camp's population consisted of American civilians in three distinct groups Protestant missionaries and their families Roman ...
... Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing or humorous because of its ridiculousness to the viewer ... The concept is related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being "cheesy" ... American writer Susan Sontag's essay Notes on "Camp" (1964) emphasised its key elements as artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and ‘shocking ...
... The words "camp" and "kitsch" are often used interchangeably both may relate to art, literature, music, or any object that carries an aesthetic value ... "kitsch" refers specifically to the work itself, whereas "camp" is a mode of performance ... Camp, as Susan Sontag observed, is always a way of consuming or performing culture "in quotation marks." However, Sontag also distinguishes the difference between "naive" and "deliberate" camp ...
... Camp derives from the French slang term se camper, meaning "to pose in an exaggerated fashion" ... The OED gives 1909 as the first print citation of camp as ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical effeminate or homosexual pertaining to, characteristic of, homosexuals ... So as a noun, ‘camp’ behaviour, mannerisms, et cetera ...
Famous quotes containing the word camp:
“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subject for Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Some of the taverns on this road, which were particularly dirty, were plainly in a transition state from the camp to the house.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)