| 单词 | agriculture |
| 释义 | agriculture (once / 236 pages) n Agriculture describes the practice of growing crops or raising animals. Someone who works as a farmer is in the agriculture industry. The Latin root of agriculture is agri, or "field," plus cultura, "cultivation." Cultivating a piece of land, or planting and growing food plants on it, is largely what agriculture means. Raising animals for meat or milk also falls under the category of agriculture. If we didn't have agriculture, we'd all be running around the woods, picking berries and trying to shoot things. WORD FAMILYagriculture: agricultural, agricultures, agriculturist+/agricultural: agriculturally/agriculturist: agriculturists USAGE EXAMPLESThe Swiss use it in shops, restaurants and for train travel, he said, and “it is also widely used for automobile purchases and in agriculture.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) I first met Rosenberg at an international conference on indoor agriculture held at a theatre in Manhattan. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) From the earliest days of agriculture, farmers discovered various ways to prevent crop yields from declining over time: by restoring nitrogen to their fields. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock Syn|Hypo|Hyper farming, 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 a large-scale farming enterprise Syn|Hyper agribusiness, factory farm business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects 3n the class of people engaged in growing food Hyper class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum people having the same social, economic, or educational status Agriculture (once / 1130 pages) n WORD FAMILY Agriculture: Agricultures USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials say two more horses’ temperatures spiked Monday, and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture expanded the quarantine as a precaution. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump transition team official said on Monday. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Agriculture disrupts that cycle: we harvest the plants, and eat them. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) n the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 Syn|Hyper Agriculture Department, Department of Agriculture, USDA executive department a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States |
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