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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farming \Farm"ing\, n. The business of cultivating land. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farm \Farm\, v. t. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farming \Farm"ing\, a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to adapted to or engaged in farming; as farming tools; farming land; a farming community. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: farming adj : "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: {agrarian}, {agricultural}, {farming(a)}] n 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 Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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 (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: farming [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 {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}]
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