English Dictionary

farm

/fɑːɹm/

noun

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.

I visited a farm last weekend.

意味（1）

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

意味（2）

A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

意味（3）

(usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures

fuel farm

意味（4）

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.

a render farm

意味（5）

(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A banquet; feast.

意味（7）

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.

意味（8）

(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.

He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.

意味（9）

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.

意味（10）

The body of farmers of public revenues.

They despair of a suppression of the Farm.

意味（11）

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.

意味（12）

(historical) A baby farm.

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.