farming [fahr-ming]
Main Entry:
farm [fahrm]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: produce crops, raise animals
Synonyms: bring under cultivation, crop, cultivate, direct, dress, garden, graze, grow, harrow, harvest, homestead, husband, landscape, look after, operate, pasture, plant, plow, ranch, reap, run, seed, sow, subdue, superintend, tend, till, till the soil, work
Main Entry: cultivate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: develop land for growing
Synonyms: breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work
Antonyms: destroy, ignore, neglect
Main Entry: cultivation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: development of land for growing
Synonyms: agrology, agronomics, agronomy, farming, gardening, horticulture, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling, working
Notes: culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure
Main Entry: culture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: development of land
Synonyms: agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, farming, gardening, raising, tending
Main Entry: horticulture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gardening
Synonyms: agriculture, arboriculture, cultivation, farming, floriculture, groundskeeping, viniculture, viticulture
Main Entry: land
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: earth's surface; ownable property
Synonyms: acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract
Antonyms: sea, sky
Main Entry: plant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put in the ground for growing
Synonyms: bury, cover, farm, grow, implant, pitch, pot, raise, scatter, seed, seed down, set out, sow, start, stock, transplant
Antonyms: harvest, reap
Main Entry: plow
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dig up ground for cultivation
Synonyms: break, break ground, bulldoze, cultivate, farm, furrow, harrow, harvest, list, push, rake, reap, ridge, rush, shove, smash, till, trench, turn, turn over
Antonyms: fill
Main Entry: till
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cultivate land
Synonyms: dig, dress, farm, grow, harrow, hoe, labor, mulch, plant, plough, plow, prepare, raise crops, sow, tend, turn, turn over, work
Antonyms: plant, sow
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