farm
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
farm (plural farms)
- A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
- A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
- (usually, in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
- fuel farm
- wind farm
- antenna farm
- (computing) A group of coordinated servers.
- a render farm
- a server farm
- (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
- (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
- (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
- 1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:
- If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
- 1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814:
- All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.
- 1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320:
- The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
- 1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:
- (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
- 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:
- He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
- 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:
- (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
- 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
- The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
- 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
- The body of farmers of public revenues.
- 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:
- They despair of a suppression of the Farm.
- 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:
- The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
- a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58:
- It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
- 1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75:
- Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
- 1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68:
- The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
- a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58:
- French: ferme, domaine, exploitation agricole
- German: Bauernhof, Farm
- Italian: fattoria, podere
- Portuguese: fazenda, sítio, granja
- Russian: фе́рма
- Spanish: finca, granja
farm (farms, present participle farming; past and past participle farmed)
- (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
- (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
- (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
- To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
- to farm the taxes
- to farm their subjects and their duties toward these
- (obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
- (obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
- (video games, chiefly, online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
- 2004, "Doug Freyburger", Pudding Farming Requires Care (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible
[ sic] monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible
- 2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers (page 130)
- The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements […]
- 2004, "Doug Freyburger", Pudding Farming Requires Care (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)
- Portuguese: cultivar
farm (farms, present participle farming; past and past participle farmed)
- (UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
- Farm out the stable and pigsty.
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