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farm

/fahrm/US // fɑrm //UK // (fɑːm) //

农场,养殖场,养殖业,牧场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
    • : land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster farm; a tree farm.
    • : a similar, usually commercial, site where a product is manufactured or cultivated: a cheese farm; a honey farm.
    • : the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
    • : a country or district leased for the collection of revenue.
    • : a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person in view of local or district taxes that he or she is authorized to collect.
    • : a tract of land on which an industrial function is carried out, as the drilling or storage of oil or the generation of electricity by solar power.
    • : a place or business that serves a specified type of client or customer: a fat farm; funny farms.
    • : a business or place that turns out specified products or services in the manner of a factory; a mill: an online content farm.
    • : English History. the rent or income from leased property.the condition of being leased at a fixed rent; possession under lease; a lease.
    • : Also called farm team, farm club .Chiefly Baseball. a team in a minor league that is owned by or affiliated with a major-league team, for training or keeping players until ready or needed.
    • : Obsolete. a fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cultivate.
    • : to raise on land or in water.
    • : to take the proceeds or profits of on paying a fixed sum.
    • : to let or lease to another for a fixed sum or a percentage.
    • : to let or lease the labor or services of for hire.
    • : to contract for the maintenance of: a county that farms its poor.
    • : to collect for a character’s use or to sell in the game’s virtual economy by repeatedly performing a task for a reward or killing an enemy for a dropped item: I farm crafting supplies just to sell them at the auction house.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cultivate the soil; operate a farm.
  1. 1
    • : farm out, to assign to another by financial agreement; subcontract; lease: The busy shipyard farmed out two construction jobs to a smaller yard.to assign the care of to another: She farms her elderly aunt out to a retired nurse during the workweek.Chiefly Baseball.to assign to a farm.to exhaust by overcropping.to drill, especially by subcontract on land owned or leased by another.

Phrases

  • farm out
  • buy it (the farm)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • You can’t overlook the farm system that YouTube is building for content.

  • Vaccinating animals for their own health and for the protection of humans is commonly done on farms.

  • There’s a huge boom — lots of new chemicals, fertilizers, machinery, that make farms more productive.

  • The Miami Marlins, in the midst of a deep rebuild with what we project to be the second-worst run differential in the NL, have improved their farm system, which had been one of the worst in baseball.

  • Because you need a wider base to support a taller turbine, beyond a certain tower height, the bases are too wide to be driven from factory to wind farm.

  • They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.

  • But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.

  • When Reid came on board, he had only leased part of the land to farm on; the deal did not include the house.

  • A land farm is the term used for a commercial operation where waste from oil and gas extraction is spread on top of the ground.

  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.

  • The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.

  • Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.

  • Could this man, who had been sent out to take care of Indians, get back his San Pasquale farm for him?

  • We did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.

  • The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.