farm

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}]
    

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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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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Farm \Farm\, v. i.
   To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a
   farmer.
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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}.
    

processor farm
farm

   <computer, parallel> 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 {Mandelbrot
   set}.  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}.)
    

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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