farm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma.
There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquired this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”); or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).
Inflected forms:
form: farms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feorm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: farms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: farming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: farmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: farmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
often
examples: antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.
gloss: A group of coordinated servers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a render farm
a server farm
gloss: Food; provisions; a meal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A banquet; feast.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.
The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
gloss: The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
gloss: The body of farmers of public revenues.
pos: noun
examples: They despair of a suppression of the Farm.
gloss: The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
pos: noun
examples: It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
gloss: A baby farm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.
gloss: To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To devote (land) to farming.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To grow (a particular crop).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: to farm the taxes
[The East-India Company] have contrived to farm their subjects, and their duties toward these subjects, to that very Nabob, whom they themselves constantly represent as an habitual oppressor and a relentless tyrant.
gloss: To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
gloss: To take at a certain rent or rate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.
gloss: To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: 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.
The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]
gloss: To cultivate and/or disseminate through artificial algorithm-incentivized means.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: This type of SEO farming can be massively lucrative. Digital marketers have built an entire industry on top of credit card affiliate links, from which they then earn a generous profit.
Will AI slop farming ultimately exhaust the soil of online spaces? Will people flee the slop, tolerate it, or even welcome it? Will we ultimately come to love slop?
X's suspension of the Stake-linked accounts and the UK Gambling Commission's enforcement action represent the first significant consequences for clip farming.
gloss: To cultivate and/or disseminate through artificial algorithm-incentivized means.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
derogatory
Related words: agriculture
north forty
Derived words: Allenfarm
ant farm
baby-farm
baby farm
bee farm
beefarm
bet the farm
Beverly Farms
bird farm
Bobs Farm
body farm
bot farm
brain farm
buy the farm
cat farm
Chalk Farm
click farm
content farm
county farm
cube farm
cubicle farm
dairy farm
factory farm
farm animal
farm business tenancy
farm cat
farm club
farm girl
farm hand
farm holder
farm house
farm land
farm league
farm market
farm-mate
farm nigger
farm owner
farm runoff
farm shop
farm show
farm sim
farm stall
farm stand
farm team
farm the strike
farm-to-fork
farm-to-table
farm upstate
farm work
farm worker
fat farm
fish farm
funny farm
fur farm
gentleman farm
give away the farm
glebe farm
glebe-farm
gold farm
granny farm
health farm
hobby farm
home farm
honor farm
kitten farm
link farm
missile farm
oyster farm
Pepperidge Farm remembers
pig farm
pizza farm
poor farm
prison farm
rage farm
ribbon farm
server farm
SIM farm
solar farm
store farm
stud farm
tank farm
The Farm
tree farm
troll farm
truck farm
turret farm
wiki farm
wind farm
work farm
working farm
aura farm
aura farming
clip farm
edit farming
farm down
farmer
farming
farm out
gold farming
karma farm
like farm
nonfarmed
refarmed
unfarmed
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