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CULTIVATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):
production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cultivation"):
aquaculture (rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food)
apiculture; beekeeping (the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey)
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
culture (the raising of plants or animals)
tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)
Derivation:
cultivate (prepare for crops)
cultivate (foster the growth of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):
production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
Example:
her cultivation was remarkable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):
acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The process of fostering the growth of something
Example:
the cultivation of bees for honey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Derivation:
cultivate (foster the growth of)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
Example:
almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
Synonyms:
cultivation; culture; finish; polish; refinement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):
flawlessness; ne plus ultra; perfection (the state of being without a flaw or defect)
Derivation:
cultivate (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment)
Context examples:
Farmers just below the aqueduct practice wet rice cultivation, in which fields are flooded at one point in the growing cycle.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
I am free to confess that I have not been actively engaged in pursuits immediately connected with cultivation or with stock, though well aware that both will claim my attention on a foreign shore.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr Hayter had some property of his own, but it was insignificant compared with Mr Musgrove's; and while the Musgroves were in the first class of society in the country, the young Hayters would, from their parents' inferior, retired, and unpolished way of living, and their own defective education, have been hardly in any class at all, but for their connexion with Uppercross, this eldest son of course excepted, who had chosen to be a scholar and a gentleman, and who was very superior in cultivation and manners to all the rest.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Morning decidedly the best time—never tired—every sort good—hautboy infinitely superior—no comparison—the others hardly eatable—hautboys very scarce—Chili preferred—white wood finest flavour of all—price of strawberries in London—abundance about Bristol—Maple Grove—cultivation—beds when to be renewed—gardeners thinking exactly different—no general rule—gardeners never to be put out of their way—delicious fruit—only too rich to be eaten much of—inferior to cherries—currants more refreshing—only objection to gathering strawberries the stooping—glaring sun—tired to death—could bear it no longer—must go and sit in the shade.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They compared the sites of the statues to sites associated with the specific resources: the kind of rock the statues are made of, the kind of rock used for tools, fishing, vegetable and potato cultivation, and water sources.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
Pesticides can be one of the contributing factors, says Mohammed Saiful Islam, scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, and lead author of the study, which used a ‘mixed-methods’ approach to identify risk factors for AES and unsound practices around lychee cultivation in Dinajpur.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
After sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room, from the sideboard to the fender, to give an account of their journey, and of all that had happened in London, Mr. Collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden, which was large and well laid out, and to the cultivation of which he attended himself.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
They could not be the daughters of the elderly person at the table; for she looked like a rustic, and they were all delicacy and cultivation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Cantarella created a method where urease inhibitors are used during the cultivation of cane to prevent the transformation of urea — the most used fertilizer in Brazilian agriculture — into carbon dioxide.
(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)
