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sow English

Meaning sow meaning

What does sow mean?
Definitions in simple English

sow Noun

— A sow is an adult female pig.

sow Verb

— To sow is to put something (usually seeds) into the ground to let it grow.

sow

— verb (= seed) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth She sowed sunflower seeds — verb introduce into an environment sow suspicion or beliefs — noun an adult female hog — verb place seeds in or on (the ground) sow the ground with sunflower seeds

Synonyms sow synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sow?

sow English » English

plant scatter seed female pig spread sprinkle pig throw strew disseminate cultivate sow seeds scatter seeds swine spread out sow in sough separate salamander propagate pepper inseminate hog disperse broadcast white ant wall accretion transplant termite spread around spray sows sowing sow broadcast skull set apart scatter the seed scatter about remove rain put forward put publish pour down pour plough old horse okay oaf make known

Topics sow topics

What do people use sow to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal

Male and female animals
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Pig

  • What words refer to male or female pigs?
    boar sow
Physical actions Arrange Gather

Separate, scatter
Person Life Sexual relations

Sexual immorality
Social behavior Relationships

Disunity
Work and occupation Agriculture

Plant a field

Conjugation sow conjugation

How do you conjugate sow?

sow · verb

Examples sow examples

How do I use sow in a sentence?

Simple sentences

As you sow, so shall you reap.
You know the phrase, we reap what we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.
You reap what you sow.
Farmers sow seeds in the spring.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
We must sow the seeds of mutual understanding.
As you sow, so will you reap.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Sow the wind, harvest the storm.
The sow is nursing the piglets.
You sow wheat in your field.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Movie subtitles

At night these creatures from the abyss haunt the abodes of the living, where they sow death and decay.
Hey, boy, put a Iittle sow butter in them beans.
Where do you get your impudence, you filthy dog, to sow discord between the Duke and his people?
I was figuring on havin' sow belly and beans.
You reap what you sow.
They killed my sow last night.
There's no making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
I'll just go and have a look at the sow.
Remember to keep an eye on the sow.
He's a son of a yellow-bellied sow!
It's easier to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
A shrivelled man who beats the king at chess cures the queen and makes a silk purse from a sow's ear must turn blue.
The sow has no pigs, the farmer is afraid he may starve.
They neither sow nor reap, nor take their harvest to the barns.
Arabs weren't made to sow wheat and build cities.
Well, if you ask me, I'd say it must have been some fellow who wanted to sow the seeds of discord between us and the Guardians.
Before I get married, I'm gonna sow a couple of wild oats.
Scratch one sea sow.
He's young and wants to sow his wild oats before he settles down to married life.
But I'd be a sow's ear just the same.
I was figuring on sow belly and beans.
Are you joking? You reap what you sow.
What if I am? Go and sow your seed in your own rice paddies!
It's easier to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. You can do that?
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. It's just that they tried to kill us, Father.
You don't sow wheat and reap ashes, Pa.
Oh, so i'm a fat old sow, am i?
A fella's got to sow some wild oats sometime.
Sow in a different field. Do you understand what I'm saying?
Plough and sow a different field!
We'll sow the seeds on our plot,. so we'll have just a little bit of Mexico.
The last piglet. The sow had no more milk.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
He wouldn't know an interesting face from a sow's belly.
Here in kibbutz, you sow and you don't want harvest?
This fat sow is only a peasant but she thinks she's better than others.
Sow a few wild oats.
Ben.. Ben to sow a few wild oats. Have a good time.

News and current affairs

To do so would only sow the seeds of the next bubble.
Take-up has been slow, but the April 2006 surprise hike in bank rates may help to sow greater public awareness of interest-rate risk.
By reinforcing negative stereotypes of rival countries, such squabbles over history and remembrance sow fragmentation and instability, and have certainly fueled the region's recent territorial disputes.
But this will turn into furious rejection if Europe were to sow doubt over what Americans now regard as the most dangerous - if not the only challenge - to the common security of the Atlantic community.
Then, in 2002, animal welfare advocates put a proposal to ban sow stalls on the ballot in Florida.
The piglets are taken from the sow as soon as possible, so that she can be made pregnant again, but they never leave the shed until they are taken to slaughter.
What is amazing is that, although these attacks on science have been wrong for 30 years, they still sow doubts about established facts.
Target zones will only sow confusion.
Lastly, some argue that if farmers are permitted to sow GM varieties, they become dependent on large seed producers such as Monsanto, which have patent protection - and thus a monopoly - on the seed.
Before such hydro-engineering projects sow the seeds of water conflict, China ought to build institutionalized, cooperative river-basin arrangements with downstream states.
Germany, traumatized by the memory of hyperinflation in the 1920's and the consequent rise of Hitler in the 1930's, is reluctant to sow the seeds of future inflation by incurring too much debt.
The giant fossil-fuel companies have continued to lobby behind the scenes against the shift to low-carbon energy, and have used their vast wealth to buy media coverage designed to sow confusion.
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