| 单词 | furrow |
| 释义 | furrow (once / 888 pages) nv A furrow is a groove or a depression. Originally, furrows were created in soil for water to flow. Now, its most common meaning is of a deep line or wrinkle on the face, as in a "furrowed brow." Furrow is related to the old English word farrow, meaning "to root like a swine," which makes sense, seeing as both acts create trenches in the earth. Sometimes a furrow simply means the impression left by a cart wheel or tire track in the mud. In a non-agricultural sense, a furrow is also simply a slight groove or depression or series of indentations in the surface of any object. WORD FAMILYfurrow: furrowed, furrowing, furrows+/furrowed: unfurrowed USAGE EXAMPLESGrowing on a hillside in a sunlit glade, the pine is nearly 200 feet tall, 7 feet across at the base, its bark richly furrowed. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Ask Jones about all that now, and his brow furrows. Los Angeles Times(Dec 04, 2016) Everyone in the field is dressed for the rain that just stopped and for the muddy furrows between the knee-high rows of plants. Seattle Times(Nov 28, 2016) 1n a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) Hypo|Hyper cut, gash a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation trench any long ditch cut in the ground 2n a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface Syn|Hypo|Hyper crease, crinkle, line, seam, wrinkle crow's feet, crow's foot, laugh line a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes dermatoglyphicthe lines that form patterns on the skin (especially on the fingertips and the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet) frown linea facial wrinkle associated with frowning life line, lifeline, line of lifea crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live heart line, line of heart, love line, mensal linea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature line of Saturn, line of destiny, line of fatea crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates how successful you will be depression, impression, imprint a concavity in a surface produced by pressing 3v hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove furrow soil Syn|Hyper groove, rut cut into, delve, dig, turn over turn up, loosen, or remove earth 4v make wrinkled or creased furrow one's brow Syn|Hyper crease, wrinkle fold, fold up, turn up bend or lay so that one part covers the other 5v cut a furrow into a columns Syn|Hyper chamfer, chase cut separate with or as if with an instrument |
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