| 单词 | sow |
| 释义 | sow (once / 296 pages) 1v 2n When you plant seeds in the ground, you sow them. You can also sow things like doubts or ideas, simply by spreading them around. If your ideas (or your seeds) develop and grow, you've successfully sown them. 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. WORD FAMILYsow: sowed, sower, sowing, sown, sows+/sowed: self-sowed/sower: sowers/sown: self-sown, sowner, unsown USAGE EXAMPLESAustin Wilson, environmental health program manager for As You Sow, said the company’s new plan represented progress. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Facebook’s activation of the feature sowed confusion, however, because the platform also promoted a link to a false news report of a major “explosion”. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) His key argument focuses on sowing doubt about the accuracy of climate models. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1v place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth Syn|Hypo|Hyper seed inseminate, sow in place seeds in or on (the ground) broadcast sow over a wide area, especially by hand inseminate, sow inplace seeds in or on (the ground) scattersow by scattering lay, place, pose, position, put, set put into a certain place or abstract location 2v place seeds in or on (the ground) sow the ground with sunflower seeds Syn|Hyper inseminate, sow in seed place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth seed place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth 3v introduce into an environment 2sow suspicion or beliefs Hyper broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread cause to become widely known n an adult female hog Hyper swine stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals |
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