Farm vs. Firm — What's the Difference?

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.

Having a solid, almost unyielding surface or structure

An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals

Strongly felt and unlikely to change

Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock

Make more solid or resilient

Send out or subcontract work to others

In a resolute and determined manner

Allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee

A business concern, especially one involving a partnership of two or more people

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

Resistant to externally applied pressure.

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

Marked by or indicating the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal

Securely fixed in place

A facility for the generation of energy by converting it from a particular source, usually by means of multiple electric generators

Indicating or possessed of determination or resolution

A place where a group of similar devices or storage containers are set up

Constant; steadfast

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

Not subject to change; fixed and definite

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

Unfluctuating; steady

A district so leased.

Strong and sure

To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).

To make or become firm. Often used with up.

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

Without wavering; resolutely

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

A business enterprise.

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

An unincorporated business, particularly a partnership.

To engage in farming.

The name or designation under which a company transacts business.

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

A business partnership; the name under which it trades.

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

A business enterprise, however organized.

A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.

(slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.

(computing) A group of coordinated servers.

Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)

(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.

Fixed (in opinion).

(obsolete) A banquet; feast.

Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.

(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.

Durable, rigid (material state)

(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.

Firmly, steadily

(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.

(transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.

The body of farmers of public revenues.

(transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.

The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

(intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.

(historical) A baby farm.

(intransitive) To improve after decline.

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.

To shorten (of betting odds).

(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.

To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.

(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; - applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

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.

Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent.

To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Solid; - opposed to fluid; as, firm land.

To take at a certain rent or rate.

Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.

To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish.

The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

To fix or direct with firmness.

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

Members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments;

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

Become taut or tauter;

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

Make taut or tauter;

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable;

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

Not soft or yielding to pressure;

To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Strong and sure;

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.

Not subject to revision or change;

To take at a certain rent or rate.

(of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling;

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

Not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall;

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Securely established;

Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;

Marked by the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue;

Be a farmer; work as a farmer;

Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed;

Collect fees or profits

Securely fixed in place;

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;

Unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause;

With resolute determination;