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All Words Glossary
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| fallow |
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noun
- (uncountable) ground, Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- (uncountable) uncultivated, Uncultivated land.
- (obsolete) (countable) An area of fallow land.
verb
- (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
adjective
- (context, of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- inactive, Inactive; undeveloped.
| | | fan |
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noun
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An electrical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock"s tail.
verb (fan, n, ing)
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.
- (intransitive) (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
| | farm |
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noun
- A place where agricultural activities take place.
verb
- (intransitive) To work on a farm.
- (transitive) To grow a particular crop.
| | Farmer |
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noun
- (context, NATO code name) the Soviet MiG? 17 aircraft.
| | farmhouse |
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noun - The farmer's residence.
| | farming |
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noun - The business of cultivate, cultivating land, raising stocks etc.
verb
- (present participle of, farm)
adjective - Pertaining to the agricultural business.
- Raising livestock or fish.
| | farmland |
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noun
- land, Land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
| | farmstead |
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noun
- The main building of a farm
- A farm, including its buildings
| | farmyard |
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noun - The area around a farm, excluding the fields.
| | fertile |
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adjective
- (context, of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
- (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
- (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
- (context, of an imagination etc) productive or prolific
| | fertility |
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noun (uncountable)
- the condition, or the degree of being fertile
- Muckspreadng increases the of the soil.
- the birthrate of a population - the number of live births per 1000 people per year
| | fertilization |
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noun (plural: fertilizations)
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
| | fertilize |
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verb (fertiliz, ing)
- To render fertile.
| | field |
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noun
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
- (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
- magnetic field
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
- (mathematics) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
- The set of rational numbers, <math>\mathbb{Q}</math>, is the prototypical field.
- (sport) An area reserved for playing a game.
- soccer field
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- oil field or oilfield
- gold field or goldfield
- (heraldry) The background of the shield
- (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
verb
- (context, transitive, sport) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (context, transitive, sport) To place a team in (a game).
- (transitive) To answer, accept or address.
- She will questions immediately after her presentation.
| | first fruits |
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noun (wikipedia, First Fruits)
(plural)
- The first part of a harvest; sometimes made into an offering
- The first profits from an undertaking
| | fishery |
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noun
- the catching, processing and marketing of fish, shellfish etc
(fisheries)
- a place where fish etc are caught or processed
- a fishing company
| | forage |
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noun
- Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
- 1819 The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of , which he spread before the knight's charger. " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=555890591&tag=Scott,+Walter:+Ivanhoe.+A+Romance,+1819&query=forage&id=ScoIvan here
verb (forag, , ing)
- To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
- 1841 The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas " James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=766700022&tag=069&query=forage&id=eaf069v1 Chapter 8.
- To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
- 1599 And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,
- Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,
- Making defeat on the full power of France,
- Whiles his most mighty father on a hill
- Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp
- Forage in blood of French nobility. " Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Scene 2.
- To rummage.
- 1898 Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to underneath the bed. " Robert Louis Stevenson, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=596645883&tag=Stevenson,+Robert+Louis,+1850-1894:+The+Wrecker,+1898&query=forage&id=SteWrec The Wrecker.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to forage or foraging.
- 1903 As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey cap upon my head. " Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Gerard'', http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=275485053&tag=Doyle,+Arthur+Conan:+The+Adventures+of+Gerard,+1902&query=forage&id=DoyGera Chapter 4.
| | forestry |
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noun (forestries)
- The science of planting and growing trees in forests.
- The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.
- The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
- The science of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
- Commercial tree farming.
| | fork |
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noun
- A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
- (obsolete) A gallows.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A tuning-fork.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions (see image).
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process execute, executing parts of the same program.
- (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
- crotch, Crotch (British usage).
verb
- To use a fork to move food to the mouth.
- (context, computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicate, duplicating the existing process.
- (context, computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
- To kick someone in the crotch.
| | furrow |
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noun
- A line cut in the soil, especially when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- Don't walk across that deep in the field.
- A deep line in the skin of the face, especially on someone's forehead.
- When she was tired, a deep appeared on her forehead.
verb
- To make a cut in the ground.
- Cart wheels can roads.
- (About someone's brows or eyebrows) to pull them together due to worry, concentration, etc.
- Leave me alone so I can my brows and concentrate.
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