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agriculture
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n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness,
agriculture, factory farm]
2: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn:
farming, agriculture, husbandry]
3: 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 [syn: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture
Department, Agriculture, USDA]
4: the class of people engaged in growing food
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apiculture
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n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the
production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]
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aquaculture
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n 1: rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for
food
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aquiculture
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n 1: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water
containing dissolved nutrients [syn: hydroponics,
aquiculture, tank farming]
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counterculture
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n 1: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of
the established culture
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culture
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n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early
Mayan civilization" [syn: culture, civilization,
civilisation]
2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social
group
3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn:
acculturation, culture]
4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium
(such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri
dish"
5: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or
impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I
admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an
inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is
almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement,
culture, cultivation, finish]
6: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a
particular social group or organization; "the developing drug
culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction
has something to do with the FBI culture"
7: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters"
v 1: grow in a special preparation; "the biologist grows
microorganisms"
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floriculture
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n 1: the cultivation of flowering plants [syn: flower
gardening, floriculture]
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future
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adj 1: yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate
him" [ant: past, present(a)]
2: effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing
for future employment opportunities"
3: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next
president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)]
4: a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states
that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary"
n 1: the time yet to come [syn: future, hereafter,
futurity, time to come] [ant: past, past times,
yesteryear]
2: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
[syn: future, future tense]
3: bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for
delivery at a specified future date
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horticulture
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n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening,
horticulture]
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monoculture
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n 1: the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or
country)
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sculpture
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n 1: a three-dimensional work of plastic art
2: creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn:
sculpture, carving]
v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
"sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: sculpt,
sculpture]
2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at
it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of
her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture, grave]
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squelcher
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n 1: a crushing remark [syn: put-down, squelch, squelcher,
takedown]
2: an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal
becomes weaker than the noise [syn: squelch circuit,
squelch, squelcher]
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structure
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n 1: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many
parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches";
"she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and
ribbons" [syn: structure, construction]
2: the manner of construction of something and the arrangement
of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human
body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule"
3: the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their
combinations; "his lectures have no structure"
4: a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he
has good bone structure" [syn: structure, anatomical
structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body
structure]
5: the people in a society considered as a system organized by a
characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social
organization of England and America is very different";
"sociologists have studied the changing structure of the
family" [syn: social organization, social organisation,
social structure, social system, structure]
v 1: give a structure to; "I need to structure my days"
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subculture
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n 1: a social group within a national culture that has
distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs
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torture
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n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment,
torture]
2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment]
3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
"an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn:
agony, torment, torture]
4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something
it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion,
overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting]
5: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical
or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to
force another person to yield information or to make a
confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural
torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torture,
torturing]
v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture,
excruciate, rack]
2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell,
according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate,
torment]
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viniculture
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n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing
[syn: viticulture, viniculture]
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viticulture
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n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing
[syn: viticulture, viniculture]
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vulture
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n 1: any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked
heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
2: someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: marauder,
predator, vulture, piranha]
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chirr
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v 1: make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
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churr
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v 1: make a vibrant sound, as of some birds [syn: churr,
whirr]
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silviculture
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n 1: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and
care of forests
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aviculture
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multure
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chirre
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sandculture
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unculture
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chemiculture
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citriculture
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pisciculture
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sylviculture
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olericulture
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