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Farm vs. Plantation

Farm and Plantation Definitions

Farm

A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production.

Plantation

An area under cultivation.

Farm

A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.

Plantation

A group of cultivated trees or plants.

Farm

An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal
A trout farm.
An oyster farm.

Plantation

A large estate or farm on which crops are raised, often by resident workers.
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Farm

A facility for the generation of energy by converting it from a particular source, usually by means of multiple electric generators
A wind farm.

Plantation

A newly established settlement; a colony.

Farm

A place where a group of similar devices or storage containers are set up
A tank farm.
A server farm.

Plantation

A large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.

Farm

(Baseball) A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players.

Plantation

An area where trees are planted, either for commercial purposes, or to adorn an estate.
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Farm

The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.

Plantation

(historical) The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Americas; colonization.

Farm

A district so leased.

Plantation

(historical) A colony established thus.
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (former official name of Rhode Island, United States)

Farm

To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).

Plantation

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
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Farm

To cultivate, breed, or raise (plants or animals).

Plantation

The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

Farm

To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example).

Plantation

An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.

Farm

To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.

Plantation

An estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas)

Farm

To engage in farming.

Plantation

A newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America);
The practice of sending convicted criminals to serve on the Plantations was common in the 17th century

Farm

A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

Plantation

Garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth

Farm

A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

Farm

A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
Antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm

Farm

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.
A render farm
A server farm

Farm

(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.

Farm

(obsolete) A banquet; feast.

Farm

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

Farm

(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.

Farm

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

Farm

The body of farmers of public revenues.

Farm

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

Farm

(historical) A baby farm.

Farm

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

Farm

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

Farm

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

Farm

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.
To farm the taxes

Farm

To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Farm

To take at a certain rent or rate.

Farm

To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

Farm

To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
Farm out the stable and pigsty.

Farm

The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

Farm

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants.

Farm

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Farm

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

Farm

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms.

Farm

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum.

Farm

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.

Farm

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.

Farm

To take at a certain rent or rate.

Farm

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

Farm

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Farm

Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;
It takes several people to work the farm

Farm

Be a farmer; work as a farmer;
My son is farming in California

Farm

Collect fees or profits

Farm

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;
The Bordeaux region produces great red wines
They produce good ham in Parma
We grow wheat here
We raise hogs here

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