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AGRICULTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Synonyms:
agriculture; farming; husbandry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("agriculture" is a kind of...):
cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))
Meronyms (parts of "agriculture"):
tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)
harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)
Domain member category:
cultivate (foster the growth of)
hoe (dig with a hoe)
disk; harrow (draw a harrow over (land))
ridge (plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip)
plough; plow; turn (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow)
overcrop; overcultivate (to exhaust by excessive cultivation)
crop; cultivate; work (prepare for crops)
till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)
carry (bear (a crop))
farm; grow; produce; raise (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)
reseed (seed again or anew)
inseminate; sow; sow in (place seeds in or on (the ground))
broadcast (sow over a wide area, especially by hand)
seed; sow (place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth)
thrash; thresh (beat the seeds out of a grain)
feed; fertilise; fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)
smut (affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn)
cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agriculture"):
animal husbandry (breeding and caring for farm animals)
arboriculture; tree farming (the tending of and caring for trees)
dairy farming; dairying (the business of a dairy)
gardening; horticulture (the cultivation of plants)
aquiculture; hydroponics; tank farming (a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients)
mixed farming (growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm)
planting (putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow)
ranching (farming for the raising of livestock (particularly cattle))
strip cropping (cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion)
subsistence farming (farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing)
truck farming (growing vegetables for the market)
Derivation:
agriculturist (someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large-scale farming enterprise
Synonyms:
agribusiness; agriculture; factory farm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("agriculture" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Derivation:
agriculturist (someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The class of people engaged in growing food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("agriculture" is a kind of...):
class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Agriculture" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Context examples:
In the United States, the Department of Agriculture sets standards for growing, harvesting, processing, and labeling organic foods.
(Organic food, NCI Dictionary)
He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the Downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While insects are often commercially valuable and useful as scavengers, many species are harmful, causing enormous losses in agriculture and storage.
(Insect, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
DDT was once widely used as a pesticide to control insects in agriculture and to control malaria, typhus and body lice, but its use is now limited.
(Chlorophenothane, NCI Thesaurus)
A. facilis was originally isolated from soil and is used as a soil inoculant in horticulture and agriculture.
(Acidovorax facilis, NCI Thesaurus)
Other known C-P compounds are bioactive substances used in medicine (antibiotics) and agriculture (herbicide) such as fosfomycin, FR-33289, rhizocticin, and bialaphos.
(Aminophosphonate Metabolism Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The branch of science that studies bacteria, especially in relation to medicine and agriculture.
(Bacteriology, NCI Thesaurus)
He was giving Harriet information as to modes of agriculture, etc. and Emma received a smile which seemed to say, These are my own concerns.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Not to mention the agrochemicals used in agriculture - their discharge on rivers contributes immensely to fish mortality.
(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)
They also used rhodamine B as a model for volatile organic pollutants, as its molecular structure closely resembles those of pollutants emitted by vehicles, industry and agriculture.
(Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution, University of Cambridge)
