farm
noun/fɑːrm/
Слово англійською: farm
Переклад farm українською: фе́рма, господа́рство, помі́стя, органі́чна фе́рма
Детальний опис
- an area of land, and the buildings on it, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals
- a 200-hectare farm
- a dairy farm
- an organic farm
- a pig/sheep/poultry farm
- He runs the farm on his own.
- on a farm to live on a farm
- She works on the family farm.
- at a farm At harvest time they helped out at the farm.
- a farm worker/labourer
- farm animals
- farm buildings/machinery
- farm income/subsidies
- (North American English) a farm family
Collocations FarmingFarmingGrowing food and raising animals- plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
- grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
- plough/(North American English) plow land/a field
- sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
- spread manure/fertilizer on something
- cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
- damage/destroy/lose your crop
- ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
- press/dry/ferment grapes
- grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
- raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
- raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
- kill/slaughter livestock
- preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
- run a fish farm/an organic dairy farm
- engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
- use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
- begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
- grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
- fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
- improve/increase crop yields
- face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
- label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
- eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
- oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
- promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming
Wordfinder- arable
- barn
- crop
- cultivate
- dairy
- fallow
- farm
- graze
- livestock
- tractor
- (also farmhouse)the main house on a farm, where the farmer lives
- (especially in compounds) a place where particular fish or animals are kept in order to produce young
- a trout/mink farm
see also battery farm, factory farm, fish farm, funny farm, health farm, server farm, sewage farm, solar farm, troll farm, truck farm, wind farm, wine farm
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’; compare with firm (noun). The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; which later gave rise to ‘to subcontract’ (farm somebody/something out to somebody. ). The noun came to denote ‘a lease’, and, in the early 16th cent., ‘land leased for farming’.
Idioms
bet the farm/ranch on something
- (North American English, informal) to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.
- The company bet the farm on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn’t successful.
buy back the farm
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) to get back a country's assets, such as land or property, after they have been owned by another country
- The prime minister revealed his plan to buy back the farm from foreign ownership.
buy the farm
- (North American English, informal) to die
sell off the farm
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) to sell a country's assets, such as land or property, to foreign owners
- The government is happy to keep selling off the farm.