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Meaning of "battery farm" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BATTERY FARM

battery farm  [ˈbætərɪ fɑːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BATTERY FARM

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conjunction
determiner
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Battery farm is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BATTERY FARM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

battery farm

Battery cage

Battery cages are a housing system used for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected together, sharing common divider walls, as in the cells of a battery. Although the term is usually applied to poultry farming, similar cage systems are used for other animals. Battery cages have generated controversy among advocates for animal welfare, animal rights and industrial producers. It was estimated that over 60% of the world’s eggs were produced in industrial systems, mostly using battery cages, including over two thirds in the EU. In the UK, statistics from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs indicate that 50% of eggs produced in the UK throughout 2010 were from cages. However, introduction of the European Union Council Directive 1999/74/EC which banned conventional battery cages in the EU from January 2012 for welfare reasons, means the number of eggs from battery cages in the EU states is rapidly decreasing.

Definition of battery farm in the English dictionary

The definition of battery farm in the dictionary is a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BATTERY FARM


alarm
əˈlɑːm
aquafarm
ˈækwəˌfɑːm
arm
ɑːm
balm
bɑːm
birdfarm
ˈbɜːdˌfɑːm
calm
kɑːm
charm
tʃɑːm
farm
fɑːm
firearm
ˈfaɪərˌɑːm
Guam
ɡwɑːm
hammam
hʌmˈɑːm
haram
ˈhɑːˌrɑːm
harm
hɑːm
imam
ɪˈmɑːm
Islam
ˈɪzlɑːm
nonfarm
ˌnɒnˈfɑːm
palm
pɑːm
psalm
sɑːm
salaam
səˈlɑːm
superfarm
ˈsuːpərˌfɑːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BATTERY FARM

batter
battered
batterer
batterie
batterie de cuisine
batteries
battering
battering ram
Battersea
battery
battery acid
battery charger
battery egg
battery farming
battery fire
battery hen
battery set
battery-driven
battery-operated
battery-powered

WORDS THAT END LIKE BATTERY FARM

collective farm
dairy farm
factory farm
fish farm
fruit farm
funny farm
health farm
hill farm
home farm
organic farm
oyster farm
pig farm
poultry farm
server farm
sheep farm
stock farm
tree farm
trout farm
truck farm
web server farm
wind farm

Synonyms and antonyms of battery farm in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «battery farm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BATTERY FARM

Find out the translation of battery farm to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of battery farm from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «battery farm» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

电池农场
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

granja de la batería
570 millions of speakers

English

battery farm
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बैटरी खेत
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مزرعة البطارية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

птицефабрика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fazenda bateria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্যাটারি খামার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

batterie de la batterie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ladang bateri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Batterie Bauernhof
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バッテリーファーム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

배터리 농장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kebon baterei
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trang trại pin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேட்டரி பண்ணை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅटरी फार्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Pil grubu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fattoria batteria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gospodarstwo baterii
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

птахофабрика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fermă baterie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγρόκτημα της μπαταρίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

battery plaas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

batteri gård
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

batteri gård
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of battery farm

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BATTERY FARM»

The term «battery farm» is used very little and occupies the 171.988 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BATTERY FARM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about battery farm

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BATTERY FARM»

Discover the use of battery farm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to battery farm and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Restore Your Farm Tractor
Robert N. Pripps. There have been questions over the years as to which way the electricity flowed: positive to negative, or the other way around. In actual practice (until electronics are involved), it doesn't make much difference. Nevertheless ...
Robert N. Pripps, 1992
2
Popular Mechanics
By. Lothar. Stern. ELIMINATOR provides a simple, ••• inexpensive method for operating battery sets on house current and thus extends their usefulness. It also can be used to power farm radios in areas where electrification makes battery ...
3
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave
On April 27, just before the commission's second meeting in Parliament, I waited with a TV team in attendance in front of the conference room and handed the Conservative delegation a petition with 10,000 signatures for a battery farm ban,  ...
Peter Singer, 2013
4
Tales of Willow Tree Farm: An Illustrated Fable
He felt a twinge of sympathy for this ratty man who had been kept in a dark, dank place like the unhappy turkeys at the big, ugly, shut-in battery farm not too far away. Rounder knew how they had suffered in their crowded cages where no ...
Alan Byron, 2011
5
Out of Time and Place: An Anthology of Plays by Members of ...
A battery farm. Lillian Batteries are made in factories, not farms. Horace Lillian— Do you really believe I'm a moron? —It says in our free-range egg box that battery farms are inestimably cruel. The chickens never see daylight and they're fed on ...
Alexis Clements, Christine Evans, 2010
6
A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays ...
The charge controller allowed ANITA-2's subsystems to draw additional power from the battery farm when required, or, in times of high power output from the PV cells, allowed the battery farm to recharge with the excess power being produced .
Matthew Joseph Mottram, 2012
7
Interpreting Rurality: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Derbyshire, D. (2010) Battery farm for cows: 8,000 animals to be housed in milk factory. Mail Online, 01 March. Available at: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ article1254467/Battery-farm-cows-8-000-animals-housed-milk-factory.html#ixzz ...
Gary Bosworth, Peter Somerville, 2013
8
Hen and the Art of Chicken Manintenance
Early learning My original flock had been a motley crew of limping, bare- bottomed, ex-battery burn-out cases and the odd bantam, bought with money earned collecting eggs at the local battery farm (this was the 1970s) - where my most ...
Martin Gurdon, 2003
9
The Two Cultures: Shared Problems: Shared Problems
Tests have revealed that chickens in a battery farm which have to work very hard to survive create very unsymmetrical eggs. In contrast, free range chickens which enjoy the freedom of the farm lay much more symmetrical eggs than their ...
Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danieli, Giuseppe O. Longo, 2010
10
New Scientist
... more questionable is whether their presence or absence is enough to define the animal's state of health. Suppose we have established that the chimpanzees in a zoo or the hens in a battery farm look healthy and in good physical condition.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BATTERY FARM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term battery farm is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Billionaire Tesla CEO has fascinating ideas
... profits from the richest vehicle owners will subsidize your larger plan to build capacity — in the form of your recently announced battery farm. «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
2
Why Heathrow got the backing of Gatwick's biggest customer
The converted 1970s aircraft garage is a large, orange, human battery farm. The 1,000 inhabitants share the shed with a couple of Airbuses ... «Management Today, Jul 15»
3
'Cows have their own personalities': tales from the Devon farmers
... “a battery farm for cows”. Economies of scale, however, must threaten rural tradition, and some experiments in a new kind of brutal agriculture ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
4
A Lament For Catford
I don't know what kind of snooty little bourgeois battery farm the writer hails from if it was such a high melodrama to walk into the ... «Londonist, Jun 15»
5
Law on parasitism: Belarus revived the idea of the Soviet past
... planted pine trees in an abandoned gravel pit; others erected a battery farm in a village and planted trees in Minsk's Hugo Chavez Park. «EuroBelarus, Jun 15»
6
Long before Tesla made grid batteries cool, there was AES
A 40 MW battery farm at Dayton Power and Light's (DP&L) Tait generating station, just south of Dayton, Ohio, built by AES Energy Storage. «Fortune, Jun 15»
7
Belarus: A Nation of Parasites
... planted pine trees in an abandoned gravel pit; others erected a battery farm in a village and planted trees in Minsk's Hugo Chavez Park. «Transitions Online, Jun 15»
8
Colouful career change has international appeal
The next year the family moved to an old battery farm in Oxenhope, near Bradford. Since then they have been cross-breeding colourful egg ... «Yorkshire Post, Jun 15»
9
Company has a rainbow of egg colour choices
The next year the family moved to an old battery farm in Oxenhope, near Bradford, and since then have been cross-breeding colourful egg ... «FG Insight, Jun 15»
10
Vegans need to stop comparing the treatment of animals to slavery
The fate of chickens is also no secret: images of emaciated birds trapped in battery farm pens are circulated pretty regularly. Perhaps not so ... «The Independent, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Battery farm [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/battery-farm>. May 2024 ».
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