FARMING : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: FARMING	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for FARMING
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
farming adj relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" Synonym(s): agrarian, agricultural, farming(a) n the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry] agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" Synonym(s): farming, land
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 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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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)