Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Farming.]
1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to
yield the use of to proceeds.
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We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
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2. 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.
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To farm their subjects and their duties toward
these. --Burke.
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3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
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4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
till, as a farm.
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To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Farm \Farm\, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr.
L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See
Firm, a. & n.]
1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of
part of its products. [Obs.]
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2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a
leasehold. [Obs.]
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It is great willfulness in landlords to make any
longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser.
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3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the
purpose of cultivation.
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4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under
the management of a tenant or the owner.
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Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent,
continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from
the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so
from the legal sense. --Burrill.
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5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the
collection of the revenues of government.
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The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke.
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6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods;
as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
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Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of
10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials
(1196).
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Farm \Farm\, v. i.
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a
farmer.
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farm
n 1: workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land
as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
v 1: be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in
California"
2: collect fees or profits
3: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means
of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow
wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise,
farm, produce]
Source: The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
farm
n.
A group of machines, especially a large group of near-identical machines
running load-balancing software, dedicated to a single task. Historically
the term server farm, used especially for a group of web servers, seems to
have been coined by analogy with earlier disk farm in the early 1990s;
generalization began with render farm for a group of machines dedicated to
rendering computer animations (this term appears to have been popularized
by publicity about the pioneering ?Linux render farm? used to produce the
movie Titanic). By 2001 other combinations such as ?compile farm? and
?compute farm? were increasingly common, and arguably borderline techspeak.
More jargon uses seem likely to arise (and be absorbed into techspeak over
time) as new uses are discovered for networked machine clusters. Compare
link farm.
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010)
processor farm
farm
A parallel processor where tasks are
distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to
several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the
farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which
can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the
canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrotset. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on
communications must be small compared to the time spent
processing each task.
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Farm
(Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land
assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the
lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged
to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah
was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by
direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews
paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to
the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be
rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a
husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings
19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ?(n/a); TITHE.)
Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
FARM, estates. A portion or tract of land, some of which is cultivated. 2
Binn. 238. In parlance, and for the purpose of description in a deed, a farm
means: a messuage with out-buildings, gardens, orchard, yard, and land
usually occupied with the same for agricultural purposes; Plowd. 195 Touch.
93; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 208, 209, n. N; but in the English law, and
particularly in a description in a declaration in ejectment, it denotes a
leasehold interest for years in any real property, and means anything which
is held by a person who stands in the relation of tenant to a landlord. 6 T.
R. 532; 2 Chit. Pl. 879, n. e.
2. By the conveyance of a farm, will pass a messuage, arable land,
meadow, pasture, wood, &c., belonging to or used with it. 1 Inst. 5, a;
Touch. 93; 4 Cruise, 321; Bro. Grants, 155; Plowd. 167.
3. In a will, the word farm may pass a freehold, if it appear that such
was the intention of the testator. 6 T. R. 345; 9 East, 448. See 6 East,
604, n; 8 East, 339.
To FARM LET. These words in a lease have the effect of creating a lease for
years. Co. Litt. 45 b; 2 Mod. 250.
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