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Definition of 'SOW' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) sow
to scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.

2.  sow
to scatter seed over (land, earth, etc.) for the purpose of growth.

3.  sow
to implant, introduce, or promulgate; disseminate:
to sow distrust or dissension.

4.  sow
to strew or sprinkle with anything.

5. (v.i.) sow
to sow seed, as for the production of a crop.

6. (n.) sow
an adult female swine.

7.  sow
the adult female of various other animals, as the bear.

8.  sow
a large oblong mass of iron that has solidified in the common channel through which the molten metal flows to the smaller channels where the pigs solidify.

9.  sow
the common channel itself.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME sowe, OE sugu, c. OS

Definition of 'SOW' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) sow
an adult female hog

2. (verb) sow, seed
place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
"She sowed sunflower seeds"

3. (verb) sow
introduce into an environment
"sow suspicion or beliefs"

4. (verb) inseminate, sow, sow in
place seeds in or on (the ground)
"sow the ground with sunflower seeds"


Definition of 'SOW' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) SOW
the female of swine, or of the hog kind

2. (noun) SOW
a sow bug

3. (noun) SOW
a channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed

4. (noun) SOW
the bar of metal which remains in such a runner

5. (noun) SOW
a mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander

6. (noun) SOW
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, or the like

7. (verb) SOW
to sew. See Sew

8. (verb) SOW
to scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate

9. (verb) SOW
to scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle

10. (verb) SOW
to scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively


Translation of 'SOW' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to scatter over, or put in, the ground
I sowed lettuce in this part of the garden.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: saai Arabic flag Arabic: يَبْذُر، يَزْرَع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: сея
Brazilian flag Brazilian: semear Czech flag Czech: (za)sít German flag German: säen
Danish flag Danish: så; plante Greek flag Greek: σπέρνω, φυτεύω Spanish flag Spanish: sembrar
Estonian flag Estonian: külvama Farsi flag Farsi: بذر افشاندن؛ كاشتن Finnish flag Finnish: kylvää
French flag French: semer Hebrew flag Hebrew: לִזרוֹעַ Hindi flag Hindi: बोना, छितराना
Croatian flag Croatian: sijati Hungarian flag Hungarian: vet Indonesian flag Indonesian: menyebar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sá, gróðursetja Italian flag Italian: seminare Japanese flag Japanese: 種をまく
Korean flag Korean: (씨를) 뿌리다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: (pa)sėti Latvian flag Latvian: []sēt
Malay flag Malay: menyemai Dutch flag Dutch: zaaien Norwegian flag Norwegian: 
Polish flag Polish: siać Persian flag Persian: بذر افشاندن؛ كاشتن Pashto flag Pashto: کښت کول
Portuguese flag Portuguese: semear Romanian flag Romanian: a semăna Russian flag Russian: сеять
Slovak flag Slovak: (za)siať Slovenian flag Slovenian: sejati Serbian flag Serbian: posaditi
Swedish flag Swedish:  Thai flag Thai: หว่าน Turkish flag Turkish: saçmak, ekmek
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 播(種),撒 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сіяти; насаджувати Urdu flag Urdu: زمین پر یا اندر پھیلانا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: gieo hạt, xạ Chinese flag Chinese: 播(种),撒

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