Cultivate vs Infield - What's the difference?
cultivate | infield |
To grow plants, notably crops
To nurture; to foster; to tend.
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
The area inside a racetrack or running track.
*1929 , (Ernest Hemingway), A Farewell to Arms , Folio Society 2008, p. 126:
*:We left the carriage, bought programs, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
A constrained scope or area.
(agriculture) An area to cultivate: a field
(baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
(baseball) Of an event, happening in the infield.
(cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
As verbs the difference between cultivate and infield
is that cultivate is to grow plants, notably crops while infield is to inclose (a piece of land); make a field of.As a noun infield is
the area inside a racetrack or running track.cultivate
English
Verb
(cultivat)- Farmers should cultivate their crops to get a good harvest.
- They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
Derived terms
* cultivable * cultivar * cultivated * cultivation * cultivator * uncultivatedinfield
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let’s keep this problem in the infield .
- They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
- Jones ran out an infield single.