Sow
[səʊ] or [so]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an adult female hog.
(verb.) introduce into an environment; 'sow suspicion or beliefs'.
(verb.) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; 'She sowed sunflower seeds'.
手打:威尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(n.) A sow bug.
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
校對:莫蒂默
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Hog (female), pig, swine.
v. a. [1]. Scatter, strew, spread.[2]. Disseminate, disperse, propagate, spread abroad.[3]. Plant, put seed in.[4]. Besprinkle, scatter over.
v. n. Plant, scatter seed, put in seed.
編輯:拉维恩
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Scatter, disseminate, plant, strew,[See SOPHISM]
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解釋/意思:
n. a female pig: the metal solidified in parallel grooves or pigs the iron of these being pig-iron: a movable shed for protecting the men using a battering-ram.—ns. Sow′back a low ridge of sand or gravel; Sow′-bread a genus of plants allied to the primrose natives of the south of Europe the tubers of which are eaten by swine; Sow′-bug an air-breathing oniscoid isopod a pill-bug slater.—adj. Sow′-drunk (prov.) beastly drunk.—ns. Sow′-geld′er one who spays sows; Sow′-this′tle a genus of plants the tender tops of which are used in the north of Europe as greens.
v.t. to scatter seed that it may grow: to plant by strewing: to scatter seed over: to spread disseminate.—v.i. to scatter seed for growth:—pa.p. sown and sowed.—ns. Sow′er; Sow′ing; Sow′ing-machine′ a hand or horse-power seed-planting machine: a broadcast sower.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They sow all kinds of grain,--wheat, clover, and superphosphate, if need be, at once. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We must sow the good seed somehow. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- To break the pigs from the sow, and handle the iron in transportation, was a very laborious and expensive work. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Heretofore, the iron was run in open sand moulds on the floor and allowed to cool in bars called pigs, which were united in a series to a main body of the flow, called a sow. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; and that may be the case here. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It sows evenly, and sows a specific quantity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have already indicated how easily and naturally men may have come to associate the idea of sowing with a burial. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The settled Chinese population went on sowing and reaping and trading during this change of masters without lending its weight to either side. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He had to fix a seedtime, a propitious seedtime, or his sowing was a failure. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Each year they landed, and sowed and harvested a crop of wheat before going on. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When the lake dwellers sowed their little patches of wheat in Switzerland, they were already following the immemorial practice of mankind. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He reaped, no doubt, before he sowed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sowed 'em, to come up small salad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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