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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. [1913 Webster] 4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. [1913 Webster] {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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.] [1913 Webster] 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. [1913 Webster] 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. [1913 Webster] The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. [1913 Webster] Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials (1196). [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Farm \Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: 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}. From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Farm /farm/ farm; grange; ranch