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What (who) is sow - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
SOW; SOW (disambiguation); Sow (disambiguation); Sows
sow
I. VERB USES
(sows, sowing, sowed, sown)
1.
If you sow seeds or sow an area of land with seeds, you plant the seeds in the ground.
Sow the seed in a warm place in February/March...
Yesterday the field opposite was sown with maize.
VERB: V n, be V-ed with n
2.
If someone sows an undesirable feeling or situation, they cause it to begin and develop.
He cleverly sowed doubts into the minds of his rivals...
VERB: V n
3.
If one thing sows the seeds of another, it starts the process which leads eventually to the other thing.
Rich industrialised countries have sown the seeds of global warming.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
II. NOUN USE
(sows)
A sow is an adult female pig.
N-COUNT
Sow
·noun A sow bug.
II. Sow ·vi To sew. ·see Sew.
III. Sow ·noun The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
IV. Sow ·noun The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
V. Sow ·noun A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
VI. Sow ·noun A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
VII. Sow ·vi To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop;
- literally or figuratively.
VIII. Sow ·noun 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.
IX. Sow ·vt To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to Besprinkle.
X. Sow ·vt To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to Propagate.
sow
I. n.
Hog (female), pig, swine.
II. v. a.
1.
Scatter, strew, spread.
2.
Disseminate, disperse, propagate, spread abroad.
3.
Plant, put seed in.
4.
Besprinkle, scatter over.
III. v. n.
Plant, scatter seed, put in seed.
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Sow
Examples of use of sow
1. The Bible puts it this way, "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy" (Hos. 10:12). So how do you sow, or plant, righteousness?
2. Birds sow the tree‘s fruit–encased seeds far and wide.
3. This is aliciously done to sow suspicion between peoples.
4. Both have a single purpose: to sow widespread fear.
5. Nonetheless, the Clinton campaign has had to continue to sow doubts about Obama.