Round 3274: DEFARM [Call for votes]

[Paul Keating]

All,

I have a rather meagre crop of eight definitions for defarm. Please vote for two of them, by reply to this post, before the deadline, which is Tuesday 16 August at 21h45 CEST, or just over 48 hours from time of posting. 

 1. A conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems, focusing on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting biosequestration, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil.

 2. The presence of excess colonic bacteria in the small intestine resulting in malabsorption.

 3. To embezzle money held on trust.

 4. An error for disarm.

 5. Poor ore.

 6. Depression, melancholia.

 7. To return agricultural land to nature;  to rewild.

 8. The government policy of subsidies to encourage farmers to convert their land to some other use such as golf courses, forests etc. rather than produce crops. Rewilding or leaving land fallow is not usually one of the options.

--
Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[France International/Mike Shefler]

Well, you would have had 9 if I had remembered to post the definition I
wrote.

I'll vote for 2 and 6.

[Johnb - co.uk]

#3 and #6 please

JohnnyB

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 4 and 5.

4. An error for disarm. 

5. Poor ore.

-- Tim L

[Daniel B Widdis]

Avoiding the obvious etymologies, 3 and 5 for me.

 

It’s probably one of the obvious ones.

[Berger, Deborah]

I'll go with 7 and 8.  Sorry for no def. this round. Deb

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Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
debora...@uconn.edu

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[Chowie]

3 and 6 please

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[Judy Madnick]

In an effort to avoid farm-related submissions: 2. The presence of excess colonic bacteria in the small intestine resulting in malabsorption. 

and

6. Depression, melancholia.

 

Judy Madnick

[Shani Naylor]

I'll avoid the farming defs too.

3 & 6

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[Tony Abell]

I'll take the plausible 3 and the extremely improbable 4:

[Efrem Mallach]

Agree with the "no farms" crowd. Beyond that ... I dunno. I'll try 3 and 4.

Efrem

On Aug 14, 2022, at 3:40 PM, Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:

All,

I have a rather meagre crop of eight definitions for defarm. Please vote for two of them, by reply to this post, before the deadline, which is Tuesday 16 August at 21h45 CEST, or just over 48 hours from time of posting.