Dow vs. Sow — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dow and Sow
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Dow
(obsolete) To be worth.
Sow
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
Dow
(obsolete) To be of use, have value.
Sow
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
Dow
(obsolete) To have the strength for, to be able to.
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Sow
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
Dow
(obsolete) To thrive, prosper.
Sow
To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.
Dow
To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Sow
To scatter seed for growing.
Dow
A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
Sow
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
Dow
To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Sow
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
Dow
Shortened form of the Dow-Jones Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average; as, the Dow rose 100 points today.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
Sow
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
Sow
A female pig.
Sow
A female bear, she-bear.
Sow
A female guinea pig.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
Sow
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
Sow
A contemptible, often fat woman.
Sow
A sowbug.
Sow
(military) 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, etc.
Sow
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Sow
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
Sow
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Sow
Obsolete spelling of sew
Sow
To sew. See Sew.
Sow
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
Sow
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
Sow
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
Sow
A sow bug.
Sow
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
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.
Sow
An adult female hog
Sow
Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
Sow
Introduce into an environment;
Sow suspicion or beliefs
Sow
Place seeds in or on (the ground);
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds
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