English Dictionary

farm

/fɑːɹm/

verb

(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).

She loves to farm and spends most of her time working on her family's farm.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

意味（2）

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

意味（3）

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

We are enforced to farm our royal realm.

意味（6）

(obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.

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.

意味（7）

(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.

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 monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.