Farm vs Form - What's the difference?
farm | form |
(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)
To do with shape.
# The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
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# Characteristics not involving atomic components. (rfex)
# (label) A long bench with no back.
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# (label) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
# (label) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
(label) To do with structure or procedure.
# An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
# Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
# Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) A class or rank in society.
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# (label) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
#* 2011 , Jane Martinson, The Guardian , 4 May:
# (label) Level.
## A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in (sixth form)).
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## (label) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).
A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
(label) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
The den or home of a hare.
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* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.275:
A window or dialogue box.
* 1998 , Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
* Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
(label) An infraspecific rank.
The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
(label) A quantic.
(lb) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
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, title= (lb) To take shape.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
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(lb) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
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*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
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*1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in (w, Boys' Life) , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608,
*:Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:'Tis education forms the common mind.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
To provide (a hare) with a form.
*(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
*:The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
As nouns the difference between farm and form
is that farm is a small boat; barque or farm can be farm (usually with reference to farms abroad) while form is shape.farm
English
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 ----form
English
Alternative forms
* forme (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
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- I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside.
- The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms , as benches used to be called.
- Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
- Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.
- ladies of a high form
- It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
- One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in?"
- From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
- Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme .
- The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form , as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
- Hares left their snug ‘forms ’ in the cold grass.
- While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form .
- Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
Synonyms
* (shape) ** figure, used when discussing people, not animals ** shape, used on animals and on persons * (blank document) formular * (pre-collegiate level) grade * (biology)Derived terms
* form class * form factor * form feed * form genera * form genus * form letter * form taxon * in form * longform * mid-season form * return to form * shortform * subform * typeformVerb
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