All 16 Uses of
cultivate
in
Outliers
- For centuries, the paesani of Roseto worked in the marble quarries in the surrounding hills, or cultivated the fields in the terraced valley below, walking four and five miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night.†
Chpt Intr.
- Similarly Mrs. Brindle does not discuss Katie's interest in drama or express regret that she cannot afford to cultivate her daughter's talent.†
Chpt 4
- Lareau calls the middle-class parenting style "concerted cultivation."†
Chpt 4
- But in practical terms, concerted cultivation has enormous advantages.†
Chpt 4
- These are key characteristics of the strategy of concerted cultivation.†
Chpt 4
- His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.†
Chpt 4
- As Sherwin and Bird write, Oppenheimer's parents responded to their son's hobby in an almost textbook example of concerted cultivation: Dreading the thought of having to talk to an audience of adults, Robert begged his father to explain that they had invited a twelve-year-old.†
Chpt 4
- What they found is everything you would expect to find if you were comparing children raised in an atmosphere of concerted cultivation with children raised in an atmosphere of natural growth.†
Chpt 4
- Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years.†
Chpt 8
- It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout East Asia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.†
Chpt 8
- Kung leisurely gathering mongongo nuts, or the French peasant sleeping away the winter, or anyone else living in something other than the world of rice cultivation, that proverb would be unthinkable.†
Chpt 8
- In fact, one of the singular features of rice cultivation is that because of the nutrients carried by the water used in irrigation, the more a plot of land is cultivated, the more fertile it gets.†
Chpt 9
- In fact, one of the singular features of rice cultivation is that because of the nutrients carried by the water used in irrigation, the more a plot of land is cultivated, the more fertile it gets.†
Chpt 9
- This is the logic the reformers applied to the cultivation of young minds.†
Chpt 9
- A mind must be cultivated.
Chpt 9 *cultivated = helped to develop (grow)
- His parents believe in concerted cultivation.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish