farm
- IPA[färm]
美式
- an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager；the main dwelling place on a farm; a farmhouse
- make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock；use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially
verb: farm, 3rd person present: farms, gerund or present participle: farming, past tense: farmed, past participle: farmed
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager a farm of 100 acres farm workers
- ▪ the main dwelling place on a farm; a farmhouse a half-timbered farm
- ▪ a place for breeding a particular type of animal or producing a specified crop a fish farm
- ▪ an establishment at which something is produced or processed an energy farm
- ▪ a collection of networked computers used together to perform a task too great for a single computer to undertake we are becoming dependent on companies with huge server farms
動詞
- 1. make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock he has farmed organically for five years 同義詞
- ▪ use (land) for growing crops and rearing animals, especially commercially marshes are being drained in order to farm the land 同義詞
- ▪ breed or grow commercially (a type of livestock or crop, especially one not normally domesticated or cultivated) ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia 同義詞
- 2. historical allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum
