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Definition: VITICULTURE |
VITICULTURENoun1. The cultivation of the vine; grape growing. |
Date "VITICULTURE" was first used: 1872. (references) |
Etymology: Viticulture \Vit"i*cul`ture\, noun. [Latin expression vitis vine English culture.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Culture of the vine, the science and art of grape production (ampelology ). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Noun: agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VITICULTURE |
| English words defined with "VITICULTURE": Viniculture, Viticultural, Viticulturist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "VITICULTURE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (viniculture). |
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Business | Sales of straddle-type tractors increased by 600 units in 1999. Similarly, production of viticulture trailers increased by 14% to reach 1,600 units, with 65% of those units being dumping buckets and 35% screw buckets. (references) | |
The demand for viticulture equipment has remained stable over the past several years, and should continue to be stable in 2000. Grape harvesting equipment had a good year in 1999, with automatic machine sales up 13% and sales of towed machines in slight decline. (references) | ||
Economic History | Germany | Agriculture (accounts for 1% of GDP): Products--corn, wheat, potatoes, sugar, beets, barley, hops, viticulture, forestry, fisheries. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VITICULTURE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "VITICULTURE" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
viticulture | 78 |
organic viticulture | 4 |
wine making and viticulture | 3 |
enologist enology led managed resume supervised vineyard viticulturalist viticulture winery | 3 |
job viticulture | 3 |
enology viticulture | 2 |
american enology society viticulture | 2 |
davis uc viticulture | 2 |
american area viticulture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VITICULTURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vreshtari (viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | زراعة الكروم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лозарство (vine-growing, viniculture, winegrower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 葡萄 培 (Viticultural). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vinařství (viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vindyrkning (culture of the vine, vine culture, vineyard), vinavl (culture of the vine, vine culture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wijnbouw (culture of the vine, vine culture), druiventeelt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viininviljely. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | viticulture (culture of the vine, vine culture, viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Weinbau (culture of the vine, vine culture, viniculture, wine growing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμπελοκομία (culture of the vine, vine culture, viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | '"ול 'פ ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szõlõmûvelés (viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | viticoltura (culture of the vine, vine culture, viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feeyneydys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iticulturevay viticultura (culture of the vine, vine culture). (various references) viticulturã. (various references) виноградарство (viniculture). (various references) vinogradarstvo (wine growing). (various references) viticultura (culture of the vine, vine culture). (various references) vinodling (plantation, planting, planting system, vineyard, viniculture). (various references) bağcılık (vinegrowing). (various references) виноградарство (viniculture). (various references) sự tr"ng nho (viniculture), nghề tr"ng nho (viniculture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vitis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "VITICULTURE": viticultures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "VITICULTURE" (pronounced 'Vit"i*cul`ture'): Agriculture, Apiculture, architecture, Aviculture, Batture, Ceinture, Domiculture, Electro-puncture, floriculture, horticulture, Magistrature, Nomenclature, Ostreaculture, Piscicapture, Pomiculture, Roture, sericulture, silviculture, Stirpiculture, Sylviculture, Terraculture, Tubulature, Viatecture, Viniculture. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-r-t-t-u-u-v" | |
-3 letters: utriculi, verticil. | |
-4 letters: clutter, cuittle, culture, culvert, rivulet, utricle, uveitic, vulture. | |
-5 letters: culver, curite, curule, curvet, cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, elicit, litter, livier, luetic, relict, reluct, rutile, tilter, trivet, turtle, uretic, virile, virtue, vitric, vittle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-r-t-t-u-u-v" | |
+1 letter: viticultures. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 49 54 49 43 55 4C 54 55 52 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. - .. -.-. ..- .-.. - ..- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001100 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V I T I C U L T U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0049 0054 0049 0043 0055 004C 0054 0055 0052 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5643544337554654555239 |
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