Hunting vs Farming - What's the difference?
hunting | farming |
Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
* 1797 , Encyclopædia Britannica
Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
(engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.
* 1692 , John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata
Pertaining to the agricultural business.
Raising livestock or fish.
As nouns the difference between hunting and farming
is that hunting is chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food while farming is the business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc.As verbs the difference between hunting and farming
is that hunting is while farming is .As an adjective farming is
pertaining to the agricultural business.hunting
English
Noun
- His pictures of huntings are particularly admired: the figures and animals of every species being designed with uncommon spirit, nature, and truth.
See also
*Verb
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Derived terms
* hunting ground * job-hunting * house-huntingSee also
* ("hunting" on Wikipedia)farming
English
Noun
- We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.
