Timeline for Should I use the word "raise" or "grow" for animals?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 20:52 | comment | added | Xanne | “ Fish farming or pisciculture involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures such as fish ponds, usually for food. It is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture.” (Wikipedia, fish farming) | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:12 | comment | added | John Lawler | No, that's the agricultural metaphor, not the herding one. Plants grow upwards, and so does any endeavor that's tilled, sown, and tended properly, under that metaphor. Sew, and ye shall reap, etc. But grow businesses doesn't seem to me much like grow daisies; much more like just grow busy. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @John Lawler The modern metaphorical broadening of transitive 'grow' (usually 'a business') doesn't seem to have the immediate UP/DOWN tie-in (unless they build taller buildings). | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:18 | comment | added | jamesqf | @rogermue: Not exactly, with horses. The person who breeds the horse (that is, gets the mommy & daddy horse together to make a foal) may well not be the one who raises it. Though note the usage has changed: in Shakespeare (e.g. As You Like It) you'll see breed being used in the sense of raise. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | rogermue | Not quite sure, but typical uses are to grow maize, to raise children, to breed horses. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | John Lawler |
There's an UP/DOWN metaphoric component to raise that happens with mammals, at least. They get visually higher above the ground, as they grow. This is not present for fish, which aren't above the ground.
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 16:55 | history | answered | alz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |