Table of Contents
- What type of word is waste?
- What is the meaning of waste line?
- Why is sow important?
- How do you use sow in a sentence?
- What animal is called a sow?
- How do u say sow?
- Is a sow a cow?
- What does sow chaos mean?
- What does sow mean in texting?
- What is a sow insult?
- What does sowing mean in gardening?
- Is direct sowing better?
- Should I cover seeds to germinate?
- How do you say true?
verb (used with object), sowed, sown or sowed, sow·ing. to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant. to implant, introduce, or promulgate; seek to propagate or extend; disseminate: to sow distrust or dissension.
What type of word is waste?
The event industry has a bad reputation for waste.
What is the meaning of waste line?
a pipe to take excess or used water away, as from a sink to a drain.
Why is sow important?
A statement of work is an outline of expectations, timelines, and the scope of the work that your small business will be doing for your client. Statements of work aren’t appropriate for every business, but they can provide huge benefits for companies that provide services to clients.
How do you use sow in a sentence?
Use “sow” in a sentence | “sow” sentence examples
- Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
- One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
- A sow, when washed; returns to the muck.
- As we sow, so shall we reap.
- They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
- It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil.
What animal is called a sow?
sow / she-bear. boar. camel.
How do u say sow?
The verb sow is pronounced completely differently from the noun sow, which means “a female pig.” When you sow flower seeds, it rhymes with “go.” When you admire an enormous, muddy sow in a pig pen, it rhymes with “cow.” When two words are spelled the same but sound different, they’re called heteronyms.
The difference between Cow and Sow. When used as nouns, cow means an adult female of the species bos taurus that has calved, whereas sow means a female pig. When used as verbs, cow means to intimidate, whereas sow means to scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
What does sow chaos mean?
1 complete disorder; utter confusion. 2 usually cap the disordered formless matter supposed to have existed before the ordered universe. 3 an obsolete word for → abyss.
What does sow mean in texting?
Technology, IT etc (2) SOW — Speaking of Which. SOW — Female police officer. SOW — Sent on Way. SOW — Spirit of the Wolf.
What is a sow insult?
an overweight female. From the non-slang definition of “sow”: a female pig. See also heifer. See more words with the same meaning: overweight, obese, fat person.
What does sowing mean in gardening?
Direct Seeding or direct sowing means that you start planting seeds in the garden, rather than buying small plants or starting seeds indoors earlier and transplanting them outside. Many seeds of both flowers and vegetables can be started outdoors, at the start of the growing season.
Is direct sowing better?
Pros of direct sowing Direct sowing is less work than transplanting. Direct sowing has lower costs than buying plants, if that is your other option. You’ll have no need for a greenhouse and equipment. Direct sown plants have better drought tolerance – the roots grow without damage.
Should I cover seeds to germinate?
To speed germination, cover the pots with plastic wrap or a plastic dome that fits over the seed-starting tray. This helps keep the seeds moist before they germinate. When you see the first signs of green, remove the cover.
How do you say true?
True Synonyms – WordHippo Thesaurus….What is another word for true?
| genuine | real |
|---|---|
| actual | accurate |
| exact | precise |
| proper | correct |
| veracious | factual |
Sow and sow are two words that are spelled identically but are pronounced differently and have different meanings, which makes them heteronyms. We will examine the definitions of the words sow and sow, where these words came from, and a few examples of their use in sentences.
Sow (soh) is a verb that means to plant seeds and may be used literally or figuratively. A farmer may sow a field of corn. A lawyer may sow doubt in the minds of a jury. The word sow is derived from the Old English word sawan, which means to scatter seed or to plant the earth. Related words are sows, sowed, sown, sowing.
Sow (sow) is a noun that means a female pig, particularly an adult that has given birth to a litter of piglets. The plural form of sow is sows. The word sow is derived from the Old English words sugu or su, which means a female pig or hog.
Examples
This is what made us able to cooperate and conquer other tribes, domesticate animals, plant and sow crops, build machines and engines, build computers that are cognitively superior to us, and build communication devices. (Forbes Magazine)
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified this month that Russian efforts “to sow discord on both sides of an issue and to generate controversy and to generate distrust in our democratic institutions on our election process” have “never stopped.” (The Washington Examiner)
One facet where humans will never, and can never, be replaced is in the barns where the care of sows, piglets and hogs is at stake. (National Hog Farmer Magazine)
Sew vs Sow
Sew and sow are two words in English language that are completely different in meaning and usage. However, they confuse many because of the fact that they are homonyms and students of English language fail to pick up the right word when they hear these two words. This article takes a closer look at sew and sow that have different meaning but same pronunciations.
Sew
Sew is a word that describes the act of sewing, an art that makes use of needles and threads to stitch two pieces of cloth together. You sew when you use a needle and thread or a machine to stitch fabrics. Sewing is done, not just to make new items of clothing, but also to repair apparels. Whenever you think you have heard the word sew, look for other words in the sentence. They must be talking about clothes and stitching of apparels, mostly.
Sow
Sow is a word that refers to the act of spreading seeds in a field. Sowing is done in the hope of reaping a crop later on. Sowing is the present tense while sowed is the past tense of this verb that is very important for the farmers. Whenever you think you have heard the word sow, look for the clues of fields, crops, and farmers etc. to confirm it. A farmer sows the seeds and reaps crops in the future.
What is the difference between Sew and Sow?
• Sew is a verb that refers to the act of stitching fabrics whereas sow refers to the act of planting seeds in a field.
• You reap what you sow means you get results according to your deeds.
• Sew is what you do using needles and threads while sow is what you do with seeds while planting in fields.
• If there are words like clothes, stitching, needles, thread, garments etc., you can be sure you have heard sew.
• When you hear words like crop, farmer, fields, etc., you have heard sow and not sew.
сеять, посеять, засеять, засевать, высевать, свиноматка, свинья, хавронья, настыль
глагол ↓
- сеять, высеивать
to sow wheat [barley] — сеять пшеницу [ячмень] 
to sow broadcast — сеять вразброс
- распространять, сеять
to sow the seeds of enmity [of hatred] — сеять вражду [ненависть]
- засеивать
to sow a field with wheat — засеять поле пшеницей
these acres are sown to rice — на этой площади посеян рис
- усеивать
a sky sown with stars — небо, усеянное звёздами
a meadow sown with daisies — луг, пёстрый от ромашек
to sow the wind and to reap the whirlwind — посеешь ветер — пожнёшь бурю
to sow dragon’s teeth — сеять семена раздора, сеять вражду /раздоры/
to sow one’s wild oats — отдать дань увлечениям молодости; перебеситься, остепениться
as a man sows, so shall he reap — посл. что посеешь, то и пожнёшь
существительное ↓
- свинья, свиноматка
- метал. настыль, козёл
to take /to get, to have/ the wrong sow by the ear — ≅ попасть пальцем в небо; обратиться не по адресу
to take /to get, to have/ the right sow by the ear — ≅ попасть в точку
as drunk as David’s /as a/ sow — мертвецки /в доску/ пьяный
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
Примеры с переводом
She sowed sunflower seeds.
Она посадила семена подсолнечника.
Sow the seeds in late March.
Посадите семена в конце марта.
Every year we sow corn.
Каждый год мы сеем хлеб.
Farmers sowed the fields with corn.
Фермеры /крестьяне/ засеяли поля зерном.
All this sea is sown thick with shoals.
По всему этому морю масса мелководных мест.
We’ll sow in the early spring.
Мы будем сеять в начале весны.
These fields used to be sown with oats.
Эти поля раньше засевались овсом.
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds.
Посадите в землю семена подсолнечника.
Фразовые глаголы
Возможные однокоренные слова
sower — сеятель, сеялка
sowing — посев, сев, засевание
oversow — пересевать, засевать заново, сеять дополнительно, высевать слишком много семян
resow — пересевать, пересеивать
undersow — подсев под пологом леса, подсев, посев под пологом леса
Формы слова
verb
I/you/we/they: sow
he/she/it: sows
ing ф. (present participle): sowing
2-я ф. (past tense): sowed
3-я ф. (past participle): sown
noun
ед. ч.(singular): sow
мн. ч.(plural): sows
Verb
Every year we sow corn.
Farmers sowed the fields with corn.
We’ll sow in the early spring.
Recent Examples on the Web
With the ongoing political unrest in Iran, old cyber tactics have been ramped up, and new tricks that aim to distract, discredit, distort, and sow distrust have come to the fore as the regime finds itself in a critical moment.
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WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
The super pigs have become adept at fending off recreational hunters, sometimes with entire sounders (the term for a group of pigs, generally led by mature sows) turning nocturnal to avoid the hunting.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
Since the attack, biologists have learned that the grizzly that attacked Wiseman was an old sow, more than 20 years old and weighing about 400 pounds.
—Ed Wiseman, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2023
Employees of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game killed the four bears – a sow (mother bear), her two cubs and unrelated male adult – on Tuesday at Centennial Campground, the department said in a statement.
—Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
The sow and her cubs had been seen in the area before, but never showed any aggressive behavior, the statement said.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2022
Cory Dodd and Justin Yung won it with a 372.5-pound sow and grabbed the top prize of $56,000.
—Matt Williams, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
In Arctic Valley, a black bear sow and her cubs stood out among golden leaves as rain collected on blueberry patches.
—Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
The egg cell is then transferred to the uterus of a sow.
—Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
In addition to this scene sowing the seeds of a conflict between Natalie and Lottie over Travis, the question of whether Javi’s alive leans into the show’s theme of searching for explanations of the unexplainable.
—Quinci Legardye, Harper’s BAZAAR, 25 Mar. 2023
This may have been a reference to the confusion sown earlier this week by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
What’s sowing chaos is the government trying to ram through major changes to the way Israel is governed with a slim majority in the Knesset.
—WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
New characters emerged, new events surpassed the previous ones, the radicalism sown by the highest authorities in the country germinated in distant places.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
This mix works well for me in sowing a wide range of crops for my vegetable garden.
—Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 20 Mar. 2023
Its insistence that regime change would bring greater stability to the Middle East proved exactly the opposite, sowing a legacy of instability that would lead to the rise of extremist organizations like the Islamic State and the growing regional influence of Washington nemesis Iran.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
Seed packs and catalogs will provide information about how long prior to last frost a certain variety or vegetable type should be sown.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023
List of winners nominees Powerful nor’easter expected to bring heavy snow, power outages to parts of Northeast Silicon Valley Bank’s failure sows panic.
—CBS News, 13 Mar. 2023
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