Farm
[fɑːm] or [fɑrm]
Definition
(noun.) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; 'it takes several people to work the farm'.
(verb.) collect fees or profits.
(verb.) be a farmer; work as a farmer; 'My son is farming in California'.
Editor: Vito--From WordNet
Definition
(a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
(a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
(a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
(a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
(a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
(v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(v. t.) 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; as, to farm the taxes.
(v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Landed estate.
v. a. [1]. Let out (land, revenues, &c.).[2]. Take on lease (land, revenues, &c.).[3]. Cultivate (land).
v. n. Till the soil, carry on a farm, do farmer's work.
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Definition
n. land let or rented for cultivation or pasturage with the necessary buildings: (Spens.) habitation: (Shak.) a lease.—v.t. to let out as lands to a tenant: to take on lease: to grant certain rights in return for a portion of what they yield as to farm the taxes: to cultivate as land.—adj. Farm′able.—ns. Farm′-bai′liff; Farm′er one who farms or cultivates land: the tenant of a farm: one who collects taxes &c. for a certain rate per cent.:—fem. Farm′eress; Farm′ering the business of a farmer.—n.pl. Farm′ers-gen′eral the name given before the French Revolution to the members of a privileged association in France who leased the public revenues of the nation.—ns. Farm′ery the buildings of a farm; Farm′-house a house attached to a farm in which the farmer lives; Farm′ing the business of cultivating land; Farm′-lā′bourer.—n.pl. Farm′-off′ices the offices or outbuildings on a farm.—ns. Farm′stead a farm with the buildings belonging to it; Farm′-yard the yard or enclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.
Editor: Nita
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are living on a farm, denotes that you will be fortunate in all undertakings. To dream that you are buying a farm, denotes abundant crops to the farmer, a profitable deal of some kind to the business man, and a safe voyage to travelers and sailors. If you are visiting a farm, it signifies pleasant associations. See Estate.
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Examples
- In those in which they take place, and are in farm, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Ursula saw a man with a lantern come out of a farm by the railway, and cross to the dark farm-buildings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It sounds like it, said Edmund; but which way did you turn after passing Sewell's farm? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A silo is a place or receptacle for storing green feed to preserve it for future feeding on the farm. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Some conception of the enormous scale upon which grain is raised in the Western States may be gotten from the dimensions of the farms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was open for about an hour's ride, and after that it was cut across by various farms and fences. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You are all for outlay with your farMs. I don't want to make out that my system is good under all circumstances--under all circumstances, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was one of the oldest farms in the neighbourhood, situated in a solitary, sheltered spot, inland at the junction of two hills. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One of the farms which he held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was also an ex-Australian. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At that time labor was very scarce in the great central region of the country, and the farms were enormous. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The equites became, therefore, the great business men, _negotiatores_, and as _publicani_ they farmed the taxes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A tax is sometimes not only farmed for a certain rent, but the farmer has, besides, the monopoly of the commodity taxed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I reckon 'at us manufacturing lads i' th' north is a deal more intelligent, and knaws a deal more nor th' farming folk i' th' south. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Rome in her best days placed farming in high regard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- My father can't spare me any capital, else I might go into farming. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During years of highly successful farming, during which Hutton introduced new methods in Berwickshire, he was interested in meteorology, and in geology as related to soils. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The garden and orchard alone need two or three men, and farming isn't in Bhaer's line, I take it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What with sheep-farming, and what with stock-farming, and what with one thing and what with t'other, we are as well to do, as well could be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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