Meaning of FARMING
| Pronunciation: | | 'fârming
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- [n] the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
- [n] working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
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| | Synonyms: | | agriculture, husbandry, land |
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| | See Also: | | animal husbandry, aquiculture, arboriculture, business, cultivation, dairy farming, dairying, gardening, harvest, harvest time, horticulture, hydroponics, job, line, line of work, mixed farming, occupation, planting, ranching, strip cropping, subsistence farming, tank farming, tilling, tree farming, truck farming | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Farming
Visits a vegetable farm in Ohio and a cattle ranch in Nebraska to examine the machines, people, work, and environmental concerns involved with bringing vegetables and cattle to market. Reprint. more details ... |
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\Farm"ing\, a.
Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged
in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming
community.
\Farm"ing\, n.
The business of cultivating land.
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| | Definition: | | (From Adelaide University, Australia) What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media during a head crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again." [Jargon File] |
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| | Related Terms: | | agrarian, agrarianism, agricultural, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomic, agronomics, agronomy, arable, contour farming, cultivation, culture, dirt farming, dry farming, dryland farming, farm, farm economy, fruit farming, geoponic, geoponics, grain farming, husbandry, hydroponics, intensive farming, mixed farming, rural, rural economy, sharecropping, strip farming, subsistence farming, tank farming, thremmatology, tillage, tilth, truck farming |
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