What's the difference between arable and cultivatable?
Arable
Definition:
(a.) Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.
(n.) Arable land; plow land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our job now is to get Westminster to understand our unique situation.” The issue for Wales is that only 5% of its agricultural land is arable.
(2) I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque.
(3) People mainly depend on food that can be produced on arable land.
(4) In the agricultural sector of the region, the concentration of arable land into large holdings devoted to the production of export crops has resulted in the formation of a large migrant work force and greatly increased use of pesticides.
(5) The development of spraying of sludges and composts will increase the quantity and efficiency of chromium in vegetals, because of various factors: the wastes of many industries: chromium plating plants, tanneries, painting and dyeing industries throw out hexavalent chromium; if the sewage sludges are purified by an irradiation treatment, it will tend to oxidize the whole chromium in hexavalent forms; at last, the presence of sewage sludges in the arable soil favours the assimilation of chromium by inhibiting that of iron (Figure 1).
(6) The report notes that the economic gains from arable land are often overlooked in favour of foreign investment or land grabs.
(7) In The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (1984), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1994) and The Nature of Economies (2000), Jacobs proposed that the natural habitat for inventive, ingenious humanity was a teeming city, arguing that livestock had been domesticated and arable farming devised in archaic trading and manufacturing cities.
(8) All of which suggests that the modern central banker has become somewhat analogous with Europe's arable farmers of the 1990s.
(9) • Africa has 60% of the world's total amount of uncultivated arable land.
(10) The plan will place greater priority on protecting arable land, food security, wildlife protection and the "ecological restoration" of areas damaged by construction of roads, rail and other infrastructure.
(11) At the best of times this vast landlocked country – whose estimated 14.7 million people mostly live along a narrow strip of arable land on its southern border – has trouble feeding itself.
(12) Britain's 'angina pectoris' probably arose following the enclosures which changed arable (strip) into animal farming in the middle ages but cases rose only slowly from Heberden's 100 in 1802 to McKenzie's 200 by 1923.
(13) This tendency was intensified by the modern developments of keeping animals in confinements, enlargement of livestock, new kinds of residues like slurry which demanded a change in the management of arable and forage land combined with an increase in the agricultural utilization of residues form the municipal area like sewage sludge and compost made from refuse.
(14) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
(15) High above rich arable land by the North Sea, three tall wind turbines, blades spinning wildly, have started generating electricity for the national grid with two social purposes: to sell energy and use the income to deliver hundreds of new homes in a scattered rural community while, at the same time, providing additional funds for similar schemes elsewhere in Scotland.
(16) He suggests the use of chemicals on arable fields has probably killed most of the insect prey - "the biomass has simply been removed" - and perhaps had a deleterious effect on the hedgehog's own metabolism.
(17) The population is booming, but every last hectare of prime arable land is already taken!"
(18) They also show the National Farmers Union opposed the change, with the farming body saying it believed solar panels could coexist with agricultural activity such as livestock grazing and even some arable crops.
(19) Arable and vegetable farmers have also made great use of GPS for mapping their crops, he added, and monitoring yield, weed incidence and other vital data, leading to "real rewards".
(20) It is perfectly possible to think, as far as the hedgehog is concerned, the more housing estates built on arable fields the better.
Cultivatable
Definition:
(a.) Cultivable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studies of cultivatable human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) from plasma samples from infected patients have shown a correspondence between increasing viral burden and disease progression, but these measurements are selective and thus nonrepresentative of the in vivo viral load.
(2) cell wall deficient bacteria, are plant vascular pathogens, but because those M are non-cultivatable, they can only be studied by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM).
(3) We propose that the two cultivatable types of fibroblastoid cell lines represent distinct classes of fibroblastlike cells in vivo, reflecting alternative states of stable cellular differentiation involving 5'nucleotidase expression.
(4) pallidum and four nonpathogenic cultivatable treponemes were investigated by phase partitioning with the nonionic detergent Triton X-114 and immunoblot analysis.
(5) Eight immunosuppressed patients had pneumonia due to Pittsburgh Pneumonia Agent (PPA), a gram-negative, weakly acid-fast bacterium cultivatable only in embryonated eggs and guinea pigs and distinct from Legionella pneumophila.
(6) The serotypic similarity observed between the Cowden strain and a human group C rotavirus suggests that the cultivatable Cowden strain and antiserum to this virus may provide important reagents for the diagnosis of group C rotaviruses in humans.
(7) In acute exacerbations of chronic idiopathic vitritis (CIV) non-cultivatable ultrastructurally unusual 0.5-0.7 micron cell walled coccal bacteria (B) are commonly present within phagolysosomes of 3-5% of vitreous polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes.
(8) Non-cultivatable intracellular mollicutes (M), i.e.
(9) An identification procedure for adenoviruses causing infantile gastroenteritis based a) on IEOP using group-specific and monospecific antibodies and b) on the determination of the in vitro cultivatability is suggested.
(10) It is not known what fraction of the excess of fluorescent antibody-positive over culturally positive specimens represents staining of non-salmonellae or non-arizonae as opposed to the staining of non-cultivatable organisms of these two genera.
(11) Strain V286 was not shed from rabbits in a cultivatable form.
(12) In a dot-blot detection system in which radioactive DNA probes were hybridized to viral RNA extracted from cultivatable rotavirus strains, cDNAs of genes 7, 8, 10 and 11, were found to be the most reliable probes for detecting a range of rotavirus strains.
(13) These cross-reactions between microsporidia may be useful in developing diagnostic tests for non-cultivatable microsporidia such as Enterocytozoon bieneusi.
(14) With this medium, F. nucleatum was enumerated from 278 subgingival plaque samples and accounted for less than 1.0 to greater than 25% of the cultivatable microbiota.
(15) The production of viral antigen after infection of MA104, HepG2 (derived from human liver), and CaCo-2 (derived from human colon) cells with various cultivatable human and animal rotavirus strains was compared using immunofluorescence tests.
(16) Since mouse ocular and systemic inflammatory disease producing non-cultivatable ultrastructurally unusual bacteria are commonly found within isolated chronic IU vitreous polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes, a search for these bacteria in CD eye and gut disease seems justified, as the beneficial results of Rifampin in this study may have been an antimicrobial action on these bacteria.
(17) No reactivity was found in sera from 75 normal rabbits or from 129 rabbits immunized with cultivatable treponemes or a variety of other bacteria.
(18) The eighteen cultivatable mycobacteria from ATCC, cultivatable mycobacteria separated from the tissue of a wild-caught armadillo (and also grown in culture) and Skinsnes' alleged M. leprae culture retained their acid-fastness.
(19) Seronegative New Zealand White rabbits (neonatal to 4 months old) were inoculated orally with cultivatable rabbit rotavirus strains Ala, C11, and R2 and with the heterologous simian strain SA11.
(20) By introducing and ultimately expressing genes for protective antigens for a variety of pathogens, it may be possible to develop cultivatable mycobacteria into useful multivaccine vehicles.