Both Uses of
cultivate
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- And this past summer, Crash had taken to spreading jam on the louvers of his vent to cultivate a colony of bees, but that was less about husbandry than his misguided belief that he could train them to swarm Joey in his sleep.†
*cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- Maybe he cultivated miracles, to make up for a sin as horrible as setting a fire that took the lives of two people—one literal, one metaphorical.†
cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.