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sower

/soh/US // soʊ //UK // (səʊ) //

播种者,播种机,撒播者,撒种机

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sowed, sown or sowed, sow·ing.

    • : to scatter over land, earth, etc., for growth; plant.
    • : to plant seed for: to sow a crop.
    • : to scatter seed over for the purpose of growth.
    • : to implant, introduce, or promulgate; seek to propagate or extend; disseminate: to sow distrust or dissension.
    • : to strew or sprinkle with anything.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sowed, sown or sowed, sow·ing.

    • : to sow seed, as for the production of a crop.

Phrases

  • sow one's wild oats
  • can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • This ultimately sowed the seeds of acceptance and made these technologies more approachable for businesses.

  • It’s not crazy to hope that the intellectual seeds sowed in this pandemic year — information and entanglement, cross-bred with wormholes and holograms — will one day bear glorious fruit.

  • That development sowed confusion, led to dueling statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was to blame, and raised questions about whether a promise to deliver shots to 20 million people by the end of the year would be kept.

  • Two days after editing, the embryos—by then a few cells big—are implanted into surrogate sows.

  • During a virtual tour, a worker carried a smartphone through the editing lab into the gestation area, where sows spend nine months until giving birth—“farrowing” is the farmer’s term.

  • I am to be introduced to the greatest sower of ideas of the century, the author of the Social Contract, Rousseau.

  • The evil seed thus sown did not fail to take root and bring forth its fruit, just as the sower intended.

  • The field was evidently now open, and waiting for the sower of the precious seed of the Word.

  • An' so 'e did, till 'e married that day six months an' take to the drink in sower. '

  • More saving of labor still is the horse sower, which is simply the hand sower on a larger scale.