Fallow vs Productive - What's the difference?
fallow | productive |
(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
(agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
(agriculture, obsolete, countable) An area of fallow land.
The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
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(of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Inactive; undeveloped.
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile
yielding good or useful results; constructive
of, or relating to the creation of goods or services
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) consistently applicable to any of an open set of words
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(medicine) of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract
(medicine) of inflammation, producing new tissue
As adjectives the difference between fallow and productive
is that fallow is ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season while productive is capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.As a noun fallow
is ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.As a verb fallow
is to make land fallow for agricultural purposes.fallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) falow, from (etyl) ).Noun
- By a complete summer fallow', land is rendered tender and mellow. The ' fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
Derived terms
* bastard fallow * cropped fallow * dead-fallow * ecofallow * fallow-break * fallow chat * fallow crop * fallow-field * fallow finch * fallow ground * fallowist * fallow land * green fallow * pin-fallow * rag-fallow * summer fallow * winter fallowAdjective
(head)Derived terms
* apple-fallow * fallow chat * fallow finch * fallowness * lay fallow * lie fallowDerived terms
* fallowed * fallowing * re-fallow * thry-fallow * trifallow * twifallow, twyfallowEtymology 2
From (etyl) falwe, from (etyl) fealu, from (etyl) 'pale'.Adjective
(en adjective)- a fallow deer or greyhound
- (Shakespeare)
References
* English terms with multiple etymologiesproductive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moreover, this relationship is a productive one, in the sense that when new Adjectives are created (e.g. ginormous'' concocted out of ''gigantic'' and ''enormous''), then the corresponding Adverb form (in this case ''ginormously'') can also be used. And in those exceptional cases where Adverbs do not end in ''-ly'', they generally have the same form as the corresponding Adjective, as with ''hard'', ''fast , etc.