What's the difference between book and plough?

Book


Definition:

  • (n.) A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
  • (n.) A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
  • (n.) A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
  • (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.
  • (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
  • (v. t.) To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
  • (v. t.) To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.
  • (v. t.) To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
  • (2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (4) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (5) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
  • (6) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (7) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
  • (8) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (9) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
  • (10) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
  • (11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
  • (12) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (13) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
  • (14) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
  • (15) In 1999, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
  • (16) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (17) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
  • (18) Rates Six to 12 hours from R$189 (£54) to R$396 (£113), or from £199 by the day; booking policy unlikely to change during the World Cup.
  • (19) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
  • (20) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.

Plough


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Plow.
  • (n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
  • (n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
  • (n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.
  • (n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
  • (n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
  • (n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
  • (v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
  • (v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
  • (v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
  • (n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
  • (v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
  • (2) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
  • (3) He would much rather money be ploughed into renewable energy sources.
  • (4) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
  • (5) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
  • (7) He said the government would also plough money into the expansion of solar heating systems.
  • (8) The retailer said annual profits were likely to be poorer than expected as it had ploughed millions of pounds into a multimedia advertising campaign and taken on hundreds more vans to back a new delivery service before Black Friday, which falls on 27 November this year, but could not be sure how shoppers would respond.
  • (9) PMQs ploughs on regardless, in part because both sides know the weekly exchanges shape backbench morale, in part because one side will always think it gains an advantage over the other at such sessions, and in part because too many MPs are afraid of radical parliamentary change.
  • (10) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
  • (11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
  • (12) The housing crisis tells you a lot about British society: springing from a pathological middle class obsession with home ownership, the spike in houses prices is seen as earned, not incidental: most people now expect to make a profit on housing, and the fact people like the Blairs plough cash in as an investment should be a warning sign.
  • (13) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
  • (14) The article also reported that "since leaving No 10, Brown has received more than £2m in fees and expenses — although this has all been ploughed back into his public and charitable activities".
  • (15) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
  • (16) The committee is planning to plough the money saved into CCTV cameras for the park and will try again next year to raise the money for a display.
  • (17) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
  • (18) Half will be ploughed back into frontline public services, leaving £6bn to fund a smaller tax-take from NI than under a fourth-term Labour government.
  • (19) Kevyn Orr will be gone in five and a half months, and so I’m able to, I think, deliver results on the lights, deliver results on EMS response times, deliver results on the blight, getting a little bit better at the snow-ploughing, and we’re just going to keep building on that.” Other notable moments: Detroit was slammed by heavy winter storms, making it the snowiest winter on record since 1880.
  • (20) All the profits from sales are ploughed back into providing skills training and setting up new retail outlets.