 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
farming
adjective: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural)
society"; "farming communities" [syn: {agrarian}, {agricultural},
{farming(a)}]
noun
1: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn:
{agriculture}, {husbandry}]
2: working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming
is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any
more" [syn: {land}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farm \Farm\, verb (used with an object) [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.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
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.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward
these. --Burke.
3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
till, as a farm.
{To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farming \Farm"ing\, adjective
Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged
in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming
community.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farming \Farm"ing\, noun
The business of cultivating land.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "farming":
agrarian, agrarianism, agricultural, agricultural geology,
agriculture, agrology, agronomic, agronomics, agronomy, arable,
contour farming, cultivation, culture, dirt farming, dry farming,
dryland farming, farm, farm economy, fruit farming, geoponic,
geoponics, grain farming, husbandry, hydroponics,
intensive farming, mixed farming, rural, rural economy,
sharecropping, strip farming, subsistence farming, tank farming,
thremmatology, tillage, tilth, truck farming
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
farming n. [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk
drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic
media. Associated with a {crash}. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the
machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone {farming}
again." No longer common; modern drives automatically park their heads
in a safe zone on power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to
induce this.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
farming
(From Adelaide University, Australia) What the
{heads} of a {disk drive} are said to do when they plow little
furrows in the magnetic media during a {head crash}.
Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just
crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone {farming} again."
[{Jargon File}]
(2001-03-26)
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