(a. & n.) The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
(a. & n.) The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
(a. & n.) The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
(a. & n.) Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
(a. & n.) A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
(a. & n.) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
(v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.
(v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(4) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(5) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(6) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(7) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(8) Caworth Farms mice, 3 to 4 months of age, received amiloride by daily intraperitoneal injection for 7 days before the left kidney was removed and for an additional 4 days after nephrectomy.
(9) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(10) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(11) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
(12) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(13) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(14) Nevertheless, there are farms on which satisfactory results are obtained in rearing calves with low Ig levels.
(15) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
(17) The present study investigated the effects of family economic stress on parental support and adolescent maladjustment in 622 9th through 12th graders in a Midwestern farm community.
(18) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(19) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(20) In farm B, 16 S. suis strains were recovered from a total of 70 samples.
Feast
Definition:
(n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
(n.) A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
(n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
(n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
(n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
(v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
(v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(2) If eating is solely about nourishment then the feast in which the vast majority of us will participate on 25 December is equally an outrage.
(3) Perhaps the number of complaints an ombudsman receives is a function of the number of ambulance-chasing claims companies that are able to feast on a 25% – 40% cut of the winnings.
(4) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
(5) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(6) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(7) After saying his prayer, Sadaullah, was entering the room where the other guests had already taken their place for the evening feast when the missile hit.
(8) Another certifier, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, said the significance of the feast day was akin to that of Christmas for Christians.
(9) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
(10) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
(11) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(12) The €31.5bn aid tranche has become "a bit of a moveable feast", Helena says.
(13) Graham Linehan , when we meet as the others grab sandwiches, is flustered from traffic but more so, I suspect, from, at the moment, being the ghost at the feast.
(14) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(15) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
(16) "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said.
(17) The wood-clad dining room serves four-course feasts and a decent children's menu (with free food for under-fours).
(18) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
(19) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
(20) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.