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# farm

«farm» in Mova's school dictionary: **land with buildings where people grow crops and keep animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (farm, farms); verb (farm, farms, farmed, farming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A farm is land with buildings where people grow crops and keep animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#m1)

2) To farm is to grow crops or keep animals for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#m2)

3) Some farms raise fish, like a fish farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a setting with animals, crops, fields and acres counted (count legs per animal); science: where food comes from, crops, seasons, life cycles of animals; everyday life: visiting a farm, farm shops; stories: «Old MacDonald Had a Farm»; safety: wash hands after touching farm animals

### examples

- The farm has 20 cows and 35 chickens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x1)
- They grow corn on the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x2)
- How many animals are on the farm? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x3)
- The farm is 50 acres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x4)
- We visited a farm on our school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x5)
- Wash your hands after petting farm animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x6)
- Milk comes from dairy farms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x7)
- His family has farmed this land for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x8)
- You shall have a large farm-yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/#x9)

### note

A word of the story; counts are animals and crops. Trap: when asked for legs, count per animal (cows 4, chickens 2).

### In the corpora

- [Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/7/)
- [Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/13/)
- [A big leafcutter nest can hold millions of ants, and they have farmed fungus for millions of years, long before people farmed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/5/)
- [Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/16/)
- [The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «farm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.