Meaning of "fallow" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FALLOW

Old English fealga; related to Greek polos ploughed field.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FALLOW

fallow  [ˈfæləʊ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALLOW

Fallow is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb fallow in English.

WHAT DOES FALLOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Crop rotation

Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar/different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. Crop rotation gives various nutrients to the soil. A traditional element of crop rotation is the replenishment of nitrogen through the use of green manure in sequence with cereals and other crops. Crop rotation also mitigates the build-up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped, and can also improve soil structure and fertility by alternating deep-rooted and shallow-rooted plants. Crop rotation is one component of polyculture.

Definition of fallow in the English dictionary

The first definition of fallow in the dictionary is left unseeded after being ploughed and harrowed to regain fertility for a crop. Other definition of fallow is undeveloped or inactive, but potentially useful. Fallow is also land treated in this way.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FALLOW

PRESENT

Present

I fallow

you fallow

he/she/it fallows

we fallow

you fallow

they fallow

Present continuous

I am fallowing

you are fallowing

he/she/it is fallowing

we are fallowing

you are fallowing

they are fallowing

Present perfect

I have fallowed

you have fallowed

he/she/it has fallowed

we have fallowed

you have fallowed

they have fallowed

Present perfect continuous

I have been fallowing

you have been fallowing

he/she/it has been fallowing

we have been fallowing

you have been fallowing

they have been fallowing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I fallowed

you fallowed

he/she/it fallowed

we fallowed

you fallowed

they fallowed

Past continuous

I was fallowing

you were fallowing

he/she/it was fallowing

we were fallowing

you were fallowing

they were fallowing

Past perfect

I had fallowed

you had fallowed

he/she/it had fallowed

we had fallowed

you had fallowed

they had fallowed

Past perfect continuous

I had been fallowing

you had been fallowing

he/she/it had been fallowing

we had been fallowing

you had been fallowing

they had been fallowing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will fallow

you will fallow

he/she/it will fallow

we will fallow

you will fallow

they will fallow

Future continuous

I will be fallowing

you will be fallowing

he/she/it will be fallowing

we will be fallowing

you will be fallowing

they will be fallowing

Future perfect

I will have fallowed

you will have fallowed

he/she/it will have fallowed

we will have fallowed

you will have fallowed

they will have fallowed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been fallowing

you will have been fallowing

he/she/it will have been fallowing

we will have been fallowing

you will have been fallowing

they will have been fallowing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would fallow

you would fallow

he/she/it would fallow

we would fallow

you would fallow

they would fallow

Conditional continuous

I would be fallowing

you would be fallowing

he/she/it would be fallowing

we would be fallowing

you would be fallowing

they would be fallowing

Conditional perfect

I would have fallow

you would have fallow

he/she/it would have fallow

we would have fallow

you would have fallow

they would have fallow

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been fallowing

you would have been fallowing

he/she/it would have been fallowing

we would have been fallowing

you would have been fallowing

they would have been fallowing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you fallow
we let´s fallow
you fallow

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to fallow

Past participle

fallowed

Present Participle

fallowing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FALLOW»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fallow» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of fallow

dormant · idle · inactive · inert · resting · uncultivated · undeveloped · unplanted · untilled · unused

TRANSLATION OF FALLOW

Find out the translation of fallow to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of fallow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fallow» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 休耕
• Translator English - Spanish: barbecho
• English: fallow
• Translator English - Hindi: परती
• Translator English - Arabic: البور
• Translator English - Russian: паром
• Translator English - Portuguese: pousio
• Translator English - Bengali: পতিত
• Translator English - French: jachère
• Translator English - Malay: Tidak
• Translator English - German: Brache
• Translator English - Japanese: 休閑
• Translator English - Korean: 휴
• Translator English - Javanese: Fallow
• Translator English - Vietnamese: hoang vu
• Translator English - Tamil: தரிசு நிலம்
• Translator English - Marathi: सुसंस्कृत नसलेले
• Translator English - Turkish: nadas
• Translator English - Italian: maggese
• Translator English - Polish: daniel
• Translator English - Ukrainian: паром
• Translator English - Romanian: necultivat
• Translator English - Greek: αγρανάπαυση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: braak
• Translator English - Swedish: träda
• Translator English - Norwegian: brakk

7 QUOTES WITH «FALLOW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fallow.

1

Georg Brandes

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

2

Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

3

Felicity Kendal

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

4

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

5

Cheech Marin

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

6

John Lothrop Motley

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

7

Marlo Thomas

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLOW»

Discover the use of fallow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fallow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Fallow Land

H. Bates. gallery and took a rifle. His hands were still unsteady and the little rainbow-coloured balls dancing on fountains of water were like mad things. He blazed at them and missed. He swore at their dancing mockery as he wasted his  ...

H. Bates, 2000

Fallow experiments in south central Montana: results from ...

FALLOW IN SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA 15 age yield of winter wheat has been obtained when it was grown on summer fallow in a rotation which also includes some of the other field crops such as oats, barley, corn, or flax. Spring wheat ...

Arthur Edgerton Seamans, 1921

ActionScript Developer's Guide to Robotlegs

Robotlegs is an open source dependency injection and application wiring framework for ActionScript 3.

Joel Hooks, Lindsey Fallow, 2011

The Economics of Fallow: Evidence from the Eastern Amazon

Results from the crop and forest product equations imply that off-farm fallow may provide significant ecological services to farms in the Eastern Amazon. If off-farm fallow does provides ecological services that fulfill some of the same functions ...

Heather Klemick, 2007

Mucuna Fallow Diffusion in Southern Benin

Mucuna. fallow. diffusion. in. southern. Benin. V.M. Manyong1, V.A. Houndekon2, P.C. Sanginga1, P. Vissoh3, and A.N. Honlonkou2 'International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria 2Universite Nationale du Benin, Cotonou, ...

‎1999

Stylosanthes as a Forage and Fallow Crop: Proceedings of the ...

Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on the Use of Stylosanthes in West Africa , Held in Kaduna, Nigeria, 26-31 October 1992 P. N. de Leeuw, M. A. Mohamed- Saleem, A. M. Nyamu. During the 12 years of research on large-scale fodder ...

P. N. de Leeuw, M. A. Mohamed-Saleem, A. M. Nyamu, 1994

An Introduction to Agroforestry

To overcome the management problems of the upland LAC soils, which required incorporation of a much-needed fallow component, scientists working at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria in the 1970s  ...

P. K. R. Nair, 1993

Johanna in Fallow Ground

Robert Dubois. epi jiska prezan li ap rete nan yon konma, kote yon moun gen dwa ddmi pou yon senmenn, oswa ennan, oswa senkan, oswa pou toutan. Tifi-a rele Johanna Lindberg, epi li selman gen douzan, epi li responsab pou Yolene ...

Robert Dubois, 2008

Lying Fallow and Permanent Things

Joe Doran. ten times as much as I do about whatever it is he believes is important , and I'm sure his director friend knows a thousand times as much as Jimmy does, and he's probably got some script doctor who nets a million a pop to re-write ...

Joe Doran, 2006

The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of ...

under the label of long-fallow cultivation, or shifting cultivation. (3) Short-fallow cultivation. The fallow lasts one year or a couple of years only. In such a short fallow period, nothing but wild grasses can invade the fallow, before the cultivator  ...

Ester Boserup, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALLOW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fallow is used in the context of the following news items.

State grants $1.5 million to invest in Tigard's Hunziker Industrial Core

More than 40 acres of the 138-acre property is "lying fallow," or vacant, according to Lloyd Purdy, economic development manager with the city. «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»

Climate forecast still clouded

By Brian Fallow. Is the emissions-reduction target the Government announced this week ambitious, as it says, or feeble and inadequate, as its ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»

Our Kirsty didn't have to die, claim heartbroken family

The court heard how Ms Fallow's strongly worded email had triggered several meetings between the county council and Creative Support, ... «expressandstar.com, Jul 15»

Mansion in the Middle of an Oil Field in Los Angeles

... sources as California farmers are forced to leave unprecedented expanses of fields fallow in one of the worst droughts in California history. «Realty Today, Jul 15»

Rochester ought to gain from its rain

Farmland is going fallow, fish are dying off, and people are going to extremes to adjust to drought. Heck, even Magnum, P.I. star Tom Selleck is ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»

Rebuilding Frederick

In recent weeks, we covered the surge of renewed interest in doing something with the long-fallow Carmack-Jay's property on North Market ... «Frederick News Post, Jul 15»

Full line-up for this weekend's T in the Park

... Oliver Heldens, Ella Henderson, The View, Modest Mouse, Peace, Everything Everything, Admiral Fallow, Ella Eyre, Marmozets, Wolf Alice, ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jul 15»

Australia's Steve Smith batted like a world No1 – until he got out like …

This isn't a chink, or a wobble or a bad habit, but an entirely natural way of playing, rediscovered in the last two years after some slightly fallow ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

A mini Punjab in Tamil Nadu

But we all are happy to have turned the infertile and fallow lands into lush green orchards and fields, he adds. Keywords: Punjab farmers ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»

It's time for California to meter groundwater wells: Thomas Elias

The drought this year will see farmers around the state fallow 560,000 acres, the most in recent history, report researchers at UC Davis. This will ... «LA Daily News, Jul 15»