sow
IPA: sˈaʊ
noun
- A female pig.
- A female bear, she-bear.
- A female guinea pig.
- A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
- A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
- (derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
- A sowbug.
- (military) 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, etc.
- A surname.
- A river in Staffordshire, England, which joins the River Trent.
- (business) Initialism of statement of work (“a document in project management, including deliverables and timelines”).
- (military) Initialism of standoff weapon.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
- (figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
- (figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
- Obsolete spelling of sew [(transitive) To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.]
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Examples of "sow" in Sentences
- He owns three boars and three sows.
- He owns not only sows but also cows.
- The farmer sowed the field with barley.
- She saved the sow and demanded the baby.
- The boar is somewhat larger than the sow.
- He sold his sows yesterday at the market.
- Sows will emit crooning sounds to their cubs.
- The content is principles of millet sowing and cultivation.
- The male is called a boar, the female a sow, and the young piglets.
- We reap what we sow, that is what happens in a democracy like ours.
- Cultivation involves the sowing of the seeds in the appropriate season.
- The purpose of money is to reap so that you can sow, and to sow is to invest, he explains.
- Or at least watch more television, cause reap what you sow is about as common as turn the other cheek.
- Boars are usually rank and sows are usually thin from nursing pigs. a fat sow is usually pregnant and good eating too.
- "Will sow" is the Hebrew future, said of that which has been done, is being done, and may be done afterwards [Maurer],
- When in fact it does no such thing, and any lethality it might sow is 1. pure SPECULATION since no deaths are recoreded 2. a mere “possibility”, HOWEVER REMOTE.
- The fact we are worried now, if we get sufficiently worried, not only to think hard on the facts but to face the facts, is our best assurance that we won't again sow the seeds for a third World War.
- Bozo The Neoclown says: fuzzy nipples, the topic if the twinkie-gulping-skank liz cheney and if she’s guilty of giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” in time of war”? what’s the matter, are you afraid to engage in the topic at hand since the fat sow is indefensable?
- The word sough, now pronounced suff, was formerly called sow; whence the iron fused and received into a sough acquired the name of sowmetal; and that received into less soughs from the former one obtained the name of pigs of iron or of lead; from the pun on the word sough, into sow and pigs.