Fallow
adjective
Not in use, especially for a period of time.
The farm land has been fallow for two years.
Often appears as...
- lay fallow
- remain fallow
noun
Land that is ploughed but left uncropped for a period.
The fallow of the field helps to restore the soil's fertility.
Often appears as...
- plough fallow
- crop fallow
verb
Make land fallow by ploughing it and leaving it uncropped.
Farmers fallow their fields to improve the soil's nutrients.
Often appears as...
- fallow the field
- fallow the land
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not in use, especially for a period of time.
The farm land has been fallow for two years.
Often appears as...
- lay fallow
- remain fallow
noun
Land that is ploughed but left uncropped for a period.
The fallow of the field helps to restore the soil's fertility.
Often appears as...
- plough fallow
- crop fallow
verb
Make land fallow by ploughing it and leaving it uncropped.
Farmers fallow their fields to improve the soil's nutrients.
Often appears as...
- fallow the field
- fallow the land
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Inactivity
Fallow implies a deliberate pause in activity, often for recovery or future benefit.
She left her blog fallow to focus on her studies.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Fallow' can be used metaphorically to describe anything not currently active, like creativity or business.
After a booming year, the market has hit a fallow period.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Abandoned
Being fallow doesn't mean permanent disuse; it implies a future intention to resume activity.
The theatre remained fallow until the renovations were complete.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Inactivity
Fallow implies a deliberate pause in activity, often for recovery or future benefit.
She left her blog fallow to focus on her studies.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Fallow' can be used metaphorically to describe anything not currently active, like creativity or business.
After a booming year, the market has hit a fallow period.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Abandoned
Being fallow doesn't mean permanent disuse; it implies a future intention to resume activity.
The theatre remained fallow until the renovations were complete.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Inactivity
Fallow implies a deliberate pause in activity, often for recovery or future benefit.
She left her blog fallow to focus on her studies.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Fallow' can be used metaphorically to describe anything not currently active, like creativity or business.
After a booming year, the market has hit a fallow period.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Abandoned
Being fallow doesn't mean permanent disuse; it implies a future intention to resume activity.
The theatre remained fallow until the renovations were complete.
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Video examples
Saul Griffith: Hardware...
and so a lot of this logic theory lay fallow as we went down the digital computer revolution, but it's now coming back. So now I'm going to show you the hands-free, autonomous self-replication. So we've tracked in the video the input string, which was green, green, yellow, yellow, green. We set them off on this air hockey table.
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Thomas Goetz: It's time...
and it's one that's laid fallow in research. It was a notion that really came out of Albert Bandura's work, who studied whether people could get a sense of empowerment. The notion of efficacy basically boils down to one -- that if somebody believes that they have the capacity to change their behavior.
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Bruce Feiler: The...
and it comes from a passage in the book of Leviticus, that every seven years you should let the land lay fallow. And every seven sets of seven years, the land gets an extra year of rest during which time all families are reunited and people surrounded with the ones they love.
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The mathematician who...
from those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life. And most of those seeds will fall on fallow planets. So for you, personally, finding an answer to this question of where we came from, of how did this thing happen, that is something you would love to see.
Video examples
The Great Migration and...
that was within him all along. Miles Davis. His parents were from Arkansas. They migrated to southern Illinois, where he would get the chance to build on the talents that were within him all along but which could have gone fallow in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Video examples
Gulf Spill Still...
this is a different system you know warmer and a lot more open water hopefully we won't have those same impacts for a long period of time so government and private groups are working to restore habitat from short-term flooding a fallow farmland to
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
be able to kill something twice your son or twice your weight and then what do you do and can't eat all of it their fee for some hungry chicks I would say but you can tell it's quite a warm afternoon give me fallow enjoying some respite in
Video examples
Which type of milk is...
Most of that water is used to grow almond trees, which take years of watering before they start producing almonds. The trees must be watered consistently, or they die, while many other crops can be left fallow and still produce later.
Video examples
How fire shapes...
and the rest these are the fossil fallow of an industrial society and with them we have begun once more to remake the world you know traditionally we have thought of fire history as a subset of natural history particularly
Video examples
The Power of the Sun PIPE...
which is lack of water supply that is causing her to have to fallow a lot of land she actually has all of the water resources she needs right below her feet there is a vast pool of subsurface drain
Video examples
Saul Griffith: Hardware...
and so a lot of this logic theory lay fallow as we went down the digital computer revolution, but it's now coming back. So now I'm going to show you the hands-free, autonomous self-replication. So we've tracked in the video the input string, which was green, green, yellow, yellow, green. We set them off on this air hockey table.
Video examples
Thomas Goetz: It's time...
and it's one that's laid fallow in research. It was a notion that really came out of Albert Bandura's work, who studied whether people could get a sense of empowerment. The notion of efficacy basically boils down to one -- that if somebody believes that they have the capacity to change their behavior.
Video examples
Bruce Feiler: The...
and it comes from a passage in the book of Leviticus, that every seven years you should let the land lay fallow. And every seven sets of seven years, the land gets an extra year of rest during which time all families are reunited and people surrounded with the ones they love.
Video examples
The mathematician who...
from those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life. And most of those seeds will fall on fallow planets. So for you, personally, finding an answer to this question of where we came from, of how did this thing happen, that is something you would love to see.
Video examples
The Great Migration and...
that was within him all along. Miles Davis. His parents were from Arkansas. They migrated to southern Illinois, where he would get the chance to build on the talents that were within him all along but which could have gone fallow in the cotton country of Arkansas.
Video examples
Gulf Spill Still...
this is a different system you know warmer and a lot more open water hopefully we won't have those same impacts for a long period of time so government and private groups are working to restore habitat from short-term flooding a fallow farmland to
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
be able to kill something twice your son or twice your weight and then what do you do and can't eat all of it their fee for some hungry chicks I would say but you can tell it's quite a warm afternoon give me fallow enjoying some respite in
Video examples
Which type of milk is...
Most of that water is used to grow almond trees, which take years of watering before they start producing almonds. The trees must be watered consistently, or they die, while many other crops can be left fallow and still produce later.
Video examples
How fire shapes...
and the rest these are the fossil fallow of an industrial society and with them we have begun once more to remake the world you know traditionally we have thought of fire history as a subset of natural history particularly
Video examples
The Power of the Sun PIPE...
which is lack of water supply that is causing her to have to fallow a lot of land she actually has all of the water resources she needs right below her feet there is a vast pool of subsurface drain
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
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Robert Grosseteste
English Statesman
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.
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Georg Brandes
Danish Critic
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.
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Orson Welles
American Actor
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Jamaica Kincaid
Novelist
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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John Lothrop Motley
American Historian
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
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Marlo Thomas
American Actress
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
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Cheech Marin
American Comedian
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Ralph Fiennes
British Actor
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
Quote examples
Jerry Saltz
American Critic
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
Quote examples
Robert Grosseteste
English Statesman
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.
Quote examples
Georg Brandes
Danish Critic
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.
Quote examples
Orson Welles
American Actor
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
Quote examples
Jamaica Kincaid
Novelist
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Quote examples
John Lothrop Motley
American Historian
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Quote examples
Marlo Thomas
American Actress
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
Quote examples
Cheech Marin
American Comedian
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
Quote examples
Felicity Kendal
English Actress
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Quote examples
Ralph Fiennes
British Actor
I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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