Farm vs. Station — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Farm and Station
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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.
Station
A place on a railway line where trains regularly stop so that passengers can get on or off
We walked back to the station and caught the train back to Brussels
Paddington Station
Farm
An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals
A farm of 100 acres
Farm workers
Station
A place or building where a specified activity or service is based
A research station in the rainforest
Coastal radar stations
Farm
Make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock
He has farmed organically for years
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Station
A company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind
A radio station
Farm
Send out or subcontract work to others
It saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialized companies
Station
The place where someone or something stands or is placed on military or other duty
The lookout resumed his station in the bow
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
Station
A site at which a particular species, especially an interesting or rare one, grows or is found.
Farm
A tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production.
Station
Short for Stations of the Cross
Farm
A tract of land devoted to the raising and breeding of domestic animals.
Station
Put in or assign to a specified place for a particular purpose, especially a military one
A young girl had stationed herself by the door
Troops were stationed in the town
Farm
An area of water devoted to the raising, breeding, or production of a specific aquatic animal
A trout farm.
An oyster farm.
Station
A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post
A sentry station.
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.
Station
An area where a person is assigned to work.
Farm
A place where a group of similar devices or storage containers are set up
A tank farm.
A server farm.
Station
The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed
A police station.
Farm
(Baseball) A minor-league club affiliated with a major-league club for the training of recruits and the maintenance of temporarily unneeded players.
Station
A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.
Farm
The system of leasing out the rights of collecting and retaining taxes in a certain district.
Station
Australian & New Zealand A large ranch on which livestock, especially cattle or sheep, are raised.
Farm
A district so leased.
Station
Social position; rank
"He was degraded in their eyes.
He had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).
Farm
To cultivate or produce a crop on (land).
Station
An establishment equipped for observation and study
A radar station.
A biological field station.
Farm
To cultivate, breed, or raise (plants or animals).
Station
An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.
Farm
To pay a fixed sum in order to have the right to collect and retain profits from (a business, for example).
Station
One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions
The views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.
Farm
To turn over (a business, for example) to another in return for the payment of a fixed sum.
Station
A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.
Farm
To engage in farming.
Station
An input or output point along a communications system.
Farm
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
Station
A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.
Farm
A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
Station
(Ecology) A sampling location
Differences in species diversity between upstream and downstream stations.
Farm
A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
Antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
Station
Station Roman Catholic Church Any of the Stations of the Cross.
Farm
(computing) A group of coordinated servers.
A render farm
A server farm
Station
One of a series of holy places visited by pilgrims as a ritual devotion.
Farm
(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
Station
To assign to a position; post.
Farm
(obsolete) A banquet; feast.
Station
A stopping place.
Farm
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
Station
A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
The next station is Esperanza.
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.
Station
A ground transportation depot.
It's right across from the bus station.
Farm
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
Station
A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
Farm
The body of farmers of public revenues.
Station
A place where some object is provided.
Collect a knife and fork from the cutlery station on the way to your table.
Farm
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
Station
(US) A gas station, service station.
Farm
(historical) A baby farm.
Station
A place where workers are stationed.
Farm
(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
Station
An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
The police station is opposite the fire station.
Farm
(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
Station
A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
Farm
(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
Station
A military base.
She had a boyfriend at the station.
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
Station
A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
I used to work at a radio station.
Farm
To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
Station
A very large sheep or cattle farm.
Farm
To take at a certain rent or rate.
Station
(historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
Farm
To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
Station
(Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
Farm
To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
Farm out the stable and pigsty.
Station
(Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
Farm
The rent of land, - originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Station
(Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
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.
Station
Standing; rank; position.
She had ambitions beyond her station.
Farm
The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
Station
A broadcasting entity.
I used to listen to that radio station.
Farm
Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
Station
(Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
Farm
A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms.
Station
(surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
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.
Station
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
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.
Station
(mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
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.
Station
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
Farm
To take at a certain rent or rate.
Station
(medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
Farm
To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
Station
(obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
Farm
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Station
(astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
Farm
Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit;
It takes several people to work the farm
Station
(usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
I was stationed on the pier.
Farm
Be a farmer; work as a farmer;
My son is farming in California
Station
To put in place to perform military duty.
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
I was stationed at Fort Richie.
Farm
Collect fees or profits
Station
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
A station like the herald, Mercury.
Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them.
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
Station
A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet.
Station
The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
Station
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.
Station
Situation; position; location.
The fig and date - why love they to remainIn middle station, and an even plain?
Station
State; rank; condition of life; social status.
The greater part have kept, I see,Their station.
They in France of the best rank and station.
Station
The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
Station
In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.
Station
To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coast of Africa.
He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed.
Station
A facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose;
He started looking for a gas station
The train pulled into the station
Station
Proper or designated social situation;
He overstepped his place
The responsibilities of a man in his station
Married above her station
Station
(nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
Station
The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;
A soldier manned the entrance post
A sentry station
Station
Assign to a station
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