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City vs. Farm — What's the Difference?

City vs. Farm — What's the Difference?

Difference Between City and Farm

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City

A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks.

Farm

A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fiber, biofuel and other commodities.

City

A large town
One of Italy's most beautiful cities
The city council

Farm

An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals
A farm of 100 acres
Farm workers

City

Short for City of London
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Farm

Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock
He has farmed organically for years

City

A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.

Farm

Send out or subcontract work to others
It saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies

City

An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.

Farm

Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee
The customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum

City

A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.

Farm

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

City

A large incorporated town in Great Britain, usually the seat of a bishop, with its title conferred by the Crown.

Farm

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

City

The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.

Farm

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

City

An ancient Greek city-state.

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.

City

(Slang) Used in combination as an intensive
The playing field was mud city after the big rain.

Farm

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

City

City The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.

Farm

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

City

A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
São Paulo is the largest city in South America.

Farm

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

City

(UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.

Farm

A district so leased.

City

(Australia) The central business district; downtown.
I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.

Farm

To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).

City

(slang) A large amount of something used after the noun.
It’s video game city in here!

Farm

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

City

A large town.

Farm

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

City

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city.
When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law.

Farm

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

City

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

Farm

To engage in farming.

City

Of or pertaining to a city.

Farm

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

City

A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts;
Ancient Troy was a great city

Farm

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

City

An incorporated administrative district established by state charter;
The city raised the tax rate

Farm

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

City

People living in a large densely populated municipality;
The city voted for Republicans in 1994

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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