单词 | plough |
释义 | plough (once / 713 pages) nv WORD FAMILY plough: ploughed, ploughing, ploughs+/ploughed: unploughed/ploughing: ploughings USAGE EXAMPLESOn 20 December a lorry, driven by Anis Amri, ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) She was in a car accident – a car ploughed into her at 40mph – and ruptured her spine. The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016) Amri, 24, is suspected of ploughing a truck through the Berlin market on Monday. Reuters(Dec 24, 2016) 1n a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing Syn|Hypo|Hyper plow bull tongue a heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields moldboard plow, mouldboard ploughplow that has a moldboard lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreakermoldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation 2v to break and turn over earth especially with a plow Syn|Hypo|Hyper plow, turn ridge plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip disk, harrowdraw a harrow over (land) till work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation 3v move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil Syn|Hyper plow go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically Plough (once / 25255 pages) n WORD FAMILY Plough: Ploughs USAGE EXAMPLESThe Plough at Cadsden may be the most famous pub in China. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) Davies also produced Tom Stoppard's Hapgood and co-directed The Plough and the Stars, which recently finished its run at the National Theatre. BBC(Oct 26, 2016) The witness says Matthew Plough was intoxicated and had started an argument before getting out a handgun. Washington Times(Aug 19, 2016) n a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major Syn|Exp Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Dipper, Wagon, Wain asterism (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) |
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