farm

(färm)

1. A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production.

a. A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.

b. An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal: a trout farm; an oyster farm.

a. A facility for the generation of energy by converting it from a particular source, usually by means of multiple electric generators: a wind farm.

b. A place where a group of similar devices or storage containers are set up: a tank farm; a server farm.

4. Baseball A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players.

5. Obsolete

a. The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.

b. A district so leased.

v. farmed, farm·ing, farms

v.tr.

1. To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).

2. To cultivate, breed, or raise (plants or animals).

3. To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example).

4. To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.

v.intr.

To engage in farming.

Phrasal Verb:

farm out

1. To send (work, for example) from a central point to be done elsewhere.

2. Baseball To assign (a player) to a minor-league team.

[Middle English, lease, leased property, from Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin firma, fixed payment, from Latin firmāre, to establish, from firmus, firm; see dher- in Indo-European roots.]

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farmed

(fɑːmd)

adj

(Agriculture) (of fish and game) reared on a farm rather than caught in the wild

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Translations

farmed

[ˈfɑː^rmd] adj [venison, turkey] → d'élevage; [fish, salmon] → d'élevage
see also farm, intensively, organically

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References in classic literature

He has never farmed. But he knows." She waved her hand about the book1ined walls.

View in context

Disposal The Ordens Farm Holstein herd owned by the Taylor family who have farmed near Banff, Aberdeenshire for many years was dispersed at Borderway, Carlisle on September 28 in front of a packed ringside.

MARTS

But the reality is more complicated, and often enough we are still buying milk from a cow that doesn't enjoy luxuriating on a grassy pasture; "organic," "free-range," and "sustainably farmed" have become advertising labels.

Think globally, eat locally

Farmed salmon, shrimp and mussels are now cheaper than their wild-caught competitors in many markets, and researchers say that may soon apply to cobia, halibut, cod and other fish the sea once produced in prodigious quantities on its own.

Open aquaculture: are fish farmers solving their own problems?

Today, supplies of farmed and poached bear bile exceed demand for bile used in Asian medicine, perhaps by up to 2,000 kg per year, Eastham's group reports.

A galling business: the inhumane exploitation of bears for traditional Asian medicine

We reported recently that several organic contaminants occurred at elevated concentrations in farmed Atlantic salmon compared with concentrations of the same contaminants in wild Pacific salmon [Hites et al.

Risk-based consumption advice for farmed Atlantic and wild Pacific Salmon contaminated with dioxins and dioxin-like compounds

A virus now threatening the Mexican farmed sardine stocks has started to spread across the oceans, infecting wild species.

Casting our nets too wide: should tuna farming practices be more strictly regulated?

No question, it's been rough seas for farmed salmon lately.

Farmed salmon under fire

We report the causative agent, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, in North American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) farmed for the international restaurant trade.

Emerging pathogen of wild amphibians in frogs (Rana catesbeiana) farmed for international trade. (Dispatches)

A land of fertile and loamy river valleys and craggy inhospitable highlands, the people who settled and farmed here were no less shaped by the land than they shaped the land to meet their agricultural needs.

Farming on the edge: Charlie Jackson explores the modern plight of Appalachian farming

Wilmer Atkinson, a journalist, farmer and Quaker, created the journal as a way to communicate to others who farmed within a day's journey from Philadelphia.

CELEBRATING 125 YEARS

Salmon and mussels are farmed in the drowned sea valleys of the Marlborough Sounds and 35 per cent of New Zealand's grapes are grown on the plains.

Ethics of food production: from the pasture to the plate: current farming controversies give food for thought to Joanna Grigg, a New Zealand hill-country farmer