FARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farming mean? 

• FARMING (noun)
  The noun FARMING has 2 senses:

1. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

2. agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

  Familiarity information: FARMING used as a noun is rare.

• FARMING (adjective)
  The adjective FARMING has 1 sense:

1. relating to farming or agriculture

  Familiarity information: FARMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

agriculture; farming; husbandry

Hypernyms ("farming" is a kind of...):

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Meronyms (parts of "farming"):

tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)

harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)

Domain member category:

feed; fertilise; fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)

hoe (dig with a hoe)

cultivate (foster the growth of)

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)

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 "farming"):

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:

farm (cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

farming; land

Context example:

there's no work on the land any more

Hypernyms ("farming" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Derivation:

farm (be a farmer; work as a farmer)

• FARMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to farming or agriculture

Synonyms:

agrarian; agricultural; farming

Context example:

farming communities

Similar:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

 Context examples 

The Sonoran and Tonto people eventually would have had difficulty finding new farming opportunities for many children, since corn farming required irrigation.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

This predominant method of rice farming in tropical Asia raises the water table over time to just below the ground surface.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

If these changes could be rolled out globally, greenhouse gas emissions from farming would be reduced by half, they say.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)

Sites with less forest cover due to human activity, such as farming, have less saturated soundscapes versus those with high forest cover, such as conservation and hunting zones.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

Previous research shows that the timing and rate at which snow melts can affect the amount and quality of water available for vegetation, farming and fishing.

(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)

The new findings have important implications for fisheries and lobster farming, which require healthy coastal ecosystems, including seagrass beds, to thrive.

(Microbe diversity is key to healthy coastal ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

Actually, farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States.

(Farm Health and Safety, Occupational Safety and Health Administration)

L. citreum is usually nonpathogenic and is commonly found in farming soil; it is used as a starter culture for the fermentation of kimchi.

(Leuconostoc citreum, NCI Thesaurus)

Still, she allowed, "the owd maister was like other folk—naught mich out o' t' common way: stark mad o' shooting, and farming, and sich like."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The garden and orchard alone need two or three men, and farming isn't in Bhaer's line, I take it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)