Agriculture vs. Tending — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Agriculture and Tending
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Definitions
Agriculture
Agriculture is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
Tending
To have a tendency
Paint that tends toward bubbling and peeling over time.
Agriculture
The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming.
Tending
To be disposed or inclined
Tends toward exaggeration.
Agriculture
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock
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Tending
To move or extend in a certain direction
Our ship tended northward.
Agriculture
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
Tending
To have the care of; watch over; look after
Tend a child.
Agriculture
A large-scale farming enterprise
Tending
To manage the activities and transactions of; run
Tend bar.
Tend a store in the owner's absence.
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Agriculture
The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Tending
To be an attendant or servant.
Agriculture
The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
Tending
To apply one's attention; attend
No time to tend to my diary.
Agriculture
The class of people engaged in growing food
Tending
The work of caring for or attending to someone or something;
No medical care was required
The old car needed constant attention
Tending
(usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward;
He is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant
I am not minded to answer any questions