单词 | plow |
释义 | plow (once / 758 pages) 1nv 2v A plow is a large tool used for farming. A farmer drives or pulls a plow across a field to prepare it for planting. The large blades of a plow break up the earth, cutting and turning it so it's loose and ready to be planted with seeds. When you operate a plow, you can say that you plow. Boats can plow through water, too — in fact, anything that moves forcibly forward also plows: a car plows through traffic, and figuratively, a student plows through her homework. WORD FAMILYplow: plowed, plower, plowing, plows+/plowed: unplowed/plower: plowers/plowing: plowings USAGE EXAMPLESSet up by an interception less than a minute later, McSorley plowed into the end zone on a three-yard run. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) Grimes lowered his shoulder, plowed over the defender, and fell into the end zone. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Seattle police are investigating a crash between a fire engine and a ladder truck, which led the ladder truck to plow into a massage business. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing Syn|Hypo|Hyper plough 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 break and turn over earth especially with a plow Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week Syn|Hypo|Hyper plough, 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 2The ship plowed through the water Syn|Hyper plough go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically v act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression Syn|Hypo|Hyper address, cover, deal, handle, treat do by, handle, treat interact in a certain way comprehend, cover, embrace, encompassinclude in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory theologise, theologize treat from a theological viewpoint or render theological in character discourse, discuss, talk aboutto consider or examine in speech or writing descanttalk at great length about something of one's interest talk shopdiscuss matters that are related to work broach, initiate, moot bring up a topic for discussion |
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