gardening
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Noun edit
gardening (usually uncountable, plural gardenings)
- The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
- His hobby was gardening.
- 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1:
- Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.
- 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter XLVI, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
- Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.
- (by extension) Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.
- wiki gardening
- digital gardening
- 2008, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 171:
- Several special pages help with the wiki gardening task:¶ ❑ Uncategorized pages (
Special:Uncategorizedpages): These are pages that do not have one or more categories assigned. Use this page to ensure that all pages are categorized.
- 2020 September 3, Tanya Basu, “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review[1]:
- Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening.
- (cricket) The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with his bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.
- (RAF, slang, historical) The sowing of mines in water from low altitude.
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the care of a garden
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Verb edit
gardening
- present participle and gerund of garden
- He had been gardening all day.