Farm vs Plot - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal
(obsolete) A banquet; feast
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax
* 1642 , tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329 :
* 1700 , J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814 :
* 1767 , W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320 :
(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
* 1876 , E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439 :
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
* 1885 , Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
The body of farmers of public revenues.
* 1786 , T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568 :
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease
* a1599 , Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58 :
* 1647 , N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75 :
* 1818 , W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68 :
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock
(usually, in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
(computing) A group of coordinated servers
To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
To devote (land) to farming.
To grow (a particular crop).
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; to farm out.
* Burke
(obsolete) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To take at a certain rent or rate.
To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
* 2004', "Doug Freyburger", ''Pudding '''Farming Requires Care'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.nethack )
* 2010 , Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers (page 130)
The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
* Alexander Pope
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
* Denham
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
* Milton
A plan; a purpose.
* Jeremy Taylor
To conceive (a crime, etc).
To trace out (a graph or diagram).
To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
* Carew
To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.
In intransitive terms the difference between farm and plot
is that farm is to work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops while plot is to conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.In transitive terms the difference between farm and plot
is that farm is to grow (a particular crop) while plot is to mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).farm
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Alternative forms
* (l) (historical) * (l) (obsolete) (wikipedia farm)Noun
(en noun)- If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
- All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm , without any Increase.
- The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
- He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
- The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
- They despair of a suppression of the Farm .
- It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
- Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes' or ' Farmes , which word signifieth Victuals.
- The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
- fuel farm'''''; ''wind '''farm'''''; ''antenna '''farm
- a render farm'''''; ''a server '''farm
Verb
(en verb)- to farm the taxes
- to farm their subjects and their duties toward these
- We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). Since black puddings are formidible(SIC) monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.
- The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements
Derived terms
* fish farm * fur farm * tank farm * wind farmReferences
See also
* agriculture 1000 English basic words ----plot
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Noun
(en noun)- If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
- The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
- The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .
- I have overheard a plot of death.
- O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
- a man of much plot
- And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
- no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls
Synonyms
* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, schemeDerived terms
* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickensVerb
(plott)- They had ''plotted a robbery.
- They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.
- Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.
- This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
- ''They were plotting against the king.