Ingot vs. Sow — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ingot and Sow
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Ingot
An ingot is a piece of relatively pure material, usually metal, that is cast into a shape suitable for further processing. In steelmaking, it is the first step among semi-finished casting products.
Sow
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
Ingot
A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.
Sow
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
Ingot
A casting mold for metal.
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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).
Ingot
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
Sow
To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.
Ingot
(transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
Sow
To scatter seed for growing.
Ingot
That in which metal is cast; a mold.
And from the fire he took up his matterAnd in the ingot put it with merry cheer.
Sow
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
Ingot
A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine.
Sow
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
Ingot
A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling
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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