Baby farming
() The business of keeping a baby farm. |
Farming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farm |
Farming
(a.) Pertaining to agriculture |
Farming
(n.) The business of cultivating land. |
First-rate
(a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate
(n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Proportion
(n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree |
Proportion
(n.) Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind |
Proportion
(n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle |
Proportion
(n.) A part considered comparatively |
Proportion
(n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios |
Proportion
(n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional. |
Proportion
(v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another |
Proportion
(v.) To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body. |
Proportion
(v.) To divide into equal or just shares |
Rate
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence |
Rate
(n.) Established portion or measure |
Rate
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion |
Rate
(n.) Valuation |
Rate
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value |
Rate
(n.) Order |
Rate
(n.) Ratification |
Rate
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time |
Rate
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc. |
Rate
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. |
Rate
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on |
Rate
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. |
Rate
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of |
Rate
(v. t.) To ratify. |
Rate
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class |
Rate
(v. i.) To make an estimate. |
Rearing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rear |
Second-rate
(a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value |
Survival
(n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event |
Survival
(n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. |
Water rate
() A rate or tax for a supply of water. |
| farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
farming
agriculture
husbandry | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
arboriculture
tree farming | the cultivation of tree for the production of timber |
dairying
dairy farming | the business of a dairy |
hydroponics
aquiculture
tank farming | a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients |
| mixed farming | growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm |
| subsistence farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing |
| survival | something that survives |
| truck farming | growing vegetables for the market |
breeding bringing up
fostering
fosterage
nurture
raising rearing
upbringing | helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community, they debated whether nature or nurture was more important |
livestock
stock
farm animal | any animals kept for use or profit |
raising
rearing
nurture | the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child |
| pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
proportion proportionality
balance | harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design), in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin |
proportion
dimension | magnitude or extent, a building of vast proportions |
bargain rate
cheapness
cut rate
cut price | a price below the standard price |
law of constant proportion
law of definite proportions | (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
farmland
farming area | a rural area where farming is practiced |
pay rate
rate of pay | amount of money received per unit time, women's pay rate is lower than men's |
payment rate
rate of payment
repayment rate
installment rate | the amount of money paid out per unit time |
| tax rate | rate used to calculate tax liability |
interest rate
rate of interest | the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use |
discount rate
discount bank discount | interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan |
| bank rate | the discount rate fixed by a central bank |
| discount rate | the rate of interest set by the Federal Reserve that member banks are charged when they borrow money through the Federal Reserve System |
| base rate | the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks |
| prime interest rate | the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings |
rate
charge per unit | amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis, a -minute phone call at that rate would cost $ |
freight
freightage
freight rate | the charge for transporting something by common carrier, we pay the freight, the freight rate is usually cheaper |
rate of depreciation
depreciation rate | the rate at which the value of property is reduced, used to calculate tax deduction |
rate of exchange
exchange rate | the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another |
| excursion rate | a reduced rate for a round-trip ticket |
| room rate | the rate charged daily for a hotel room |
basal metabolic rate
BMR | the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state |
survival
survival of the fittest
natural selection
selection | a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment |
baud
baud rate | (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits
second) for modems |
| proportion ratio | the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree, an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations, a dry martini has a large proportion of gin |
| proportion | the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole |
| case-fatality proportion | the number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease, usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per cases |
case-to-infection proportion
case-to-infection ratio | the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease |
| rate | a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure, the literacy rate, the retention rate, the dropout rate |
| absentee rate | the percentage of workers who do not report to work |
| occupancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time |
| vacancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time |
| unemployment rate | the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date |
mileage
fuel consumption rate
gasoline mileage
gas mileage | the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned |
employee turnover
turnover rate
turnover | the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers |
symmetry
proportion | balance among the parts of something |
survival
endurance | a state of surviving, remaining alive |