| 单词 | farming |
| 释义 | farming (once / 744 pages) nadj Farming is the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants. You can also describe raising animals for milk or meat as farming. Farming is a great way to describe the lifestyle and work of people whose jobs are in the agriculture industry. People often have a romantic idea of what farming is like — roosters crowing, farmers driving tractors and milking goats — although farming can be very hard work, dependent on food prices and weather. The noun farm originally meant "a lease on farm land," and it comes from the Medieval Latin firma, "fixed payment." WORD FAMILYfarming: farmings+/farm: farmed, farmer, farming, farms/farmer: farmerette, farmers/farmerette: farmerettes USAGE EXAMPLESThey’d be well advised to fire their Growth Hackers and start prioritizing intellectual integrity over content farming. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Mohammed’s father works seasonal farming jobs that pay only a few dollars a day. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) He began using the term “vertical farming” in the second year. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock Syn|Hypo|Hyper agriculture, husbandry animal husbandry breeding and caring for farm animals arboriculture, tree farmingthe cultivation of tree for the production of timber dairy farming, dairyingthe business of a dairy gardening, horticulturethe cultivation of plants aquiculture, hydroponics, tank farminga technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients mixed farminggrowing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm plantingputting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow ranchingfarming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle) strip croppingcultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion subsistence farmingfarming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing truck farminggrowing vegetables for the market drip culturea hydroponic method of growing plants by allowing nutrient solutions to drip slowly onto an inert medium in which the plants are growing inseminationthe act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) landscape gardening, landscapingworking as a landscape gardener market gardeningthe growing of vegetables or flowers for market floriculture, flower gardeningthe cultivation of flowering plants roundupthe activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold cultivation (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) 2n agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life farming is a strenuous life Syn|Hyper land business, job, line, line of work, occupation the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money 3adj relating to rural matters farming communities Syn agrarian, agricultural rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。