What's the difference between furrow and plow?

Furrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
  • (n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
  • (n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
  • (n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The contractile ring exists from about 20 sec after anaphase to the end of furrowing activity, i.e., 6-7 min at 20 degrees C. It is closely associated with the plasma membrane at all times, and is probably assembled there.
  • (2) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
  • (3) The orientations of the cleavage spindles and the corresponding furrows' positions are assumed to be correlated to the field's temporal evolution which, in turn, is determined by flows of cytoplasmic components originated by the changes in the membrane shape.
  • (4) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
  • (5) These observations suggest that the double strands on the P-face are registered with the grooves (type I or type II) on the complementary E-face and that a row of particles on the E-face is registered with a furrow-like region between two rows in the double strands on the P-face.
  • (6) New work is required to identify the signals from the mitotic spindle that specify the position of the furrow.
  • (7) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
  • (8) Near the end of first cleavage, membrane of the outer, pigmented surface of the embryo and a short band of membrane at the leading edge of the furrow displayed a high silver grain density, but the remainder of the furrow membrane was lightly labeled.
  • (9) We report the results obtained from 18 women whose facial folds and furrows were treated with augmentation therapy.
  • (10) The events that lead to the cell shape changes mediating ventral furrow formation require the transcription of zygotic genes under the control of twist and snail.
  • (11) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (12) During conversion of cells to protoplasts, plasma membrane invaginations were arranged end-to-end to form prolonged furrows which persisted until cell wall regeneration had been completed.
  • (13) 3-D-reconstructions of serial sections of human embryos show that the margin of the lip furrow band is irregular and consists of an abundance of individual epithelial excrescences.
  • (14) We then show that stimulatory signals of the right kind would induce furrows at the locations observed, in spherical cells as well as cells distorted by experimental manipulation.
  • (15) In gastrulae, spectrin accumulates near the embryo surface, especially at the forming amnioproctodeal invagination and cephalic furrow.
  • (16) The present observations indicate that the previous descriptions of the urodele carotid labyrinth should be corrected: a vascular ring exists around the common carotid artery and the latter shows a corresponding narrowing at the entrance to the carotid labyrinth; the vascular ring forms the most proximal part of the external carotid rete; the central chamber occupies only a part of the proximal end of the carotid labyrinth; the internal carotid rete and the external carotid rete constitute a continuous rete mirabile; and a distinct furrow exists in the boundary between these two portions of the rete mirabile.
  • (17) Injection of autologous adipose tissue removed via liposuction has been used clinically for facial contouring, the aging face, furrows, facial atrophy, acne scars, nasolabial folds, chin, and various other surgical defects.
  • (18) A cluster of facial actions comprised of brow bulging, eyes squeezed shut, deepening of the naso-labial furrow and open mouth was associated most frequently with the invasive procedure.
  • (19) Thus, the orientation of mitotic furrows depends on the internal polarity of the cell before mitosis.
  • (20) The semidominant and nonpleiotropic suppressors at four of the six loci display defective eye phenes themselves, and the phenotypically normal mutants at a fifth locus are suspected alleles of a gene represented by recessive furrowed eye mutants.

Plow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Plough

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
  • (2) The model considers seasonal changes in the biomass of vegetation and animal diets, as well as specific plowing and crop-harvest dates; thus the integrated radionuclide intakes by humans are dependent on the seasonal timing of deposition.
  • (3) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
  • (4) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
  • (5) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
  • (6) For 15 years (1955 to 1970), I was plowing "new ground" pretty much by myself.
  • (7) And I would go out and there would be all these cameras there and that’s when it became difficult.” Lohan, who recently starred in the West End play Speed-the-Plow , decided to turn her back on the west coast while holidaying alone in Greece over the summer.
  • (8) There were 1,700 snow plows and 450 salt spreaders working the streets in New York City, De Blasio said.
  • (9) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
  • (10) Meanwhile, King plowed his own ground preaching love and brotherhood.
  • (11) All plow down dates are chosen before the majority of larvae enter diapause so as to eliminate as many overwintering survivors as possible.
  • (12) In association with blood coagulation, neutrophils undergo a secretory response (Plow, J Clin Invest 69: 564, 1982) and it has been suggested that plasma kallikrein is responsible for inducing this reaction (Wachtfogel et al., J Clin Invest 72: 1672, 1983).
  • (13) The PMI-1 antibody inhibits platelet adhesion and spreading on certain substrata (Shadle, P. J., Ginsberg, M. H., Plow, E. F., and Barondes, S. H. (1984) J.
  • (14) Welfare officer Hayley Plows said: “Colonies of ferals and strays have been at a rough guess 85% black or black and white, I unfortunately do not think this is by pure coincidence.
  • (15) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
  • (16) The characteristic eggs of Orientobilharzia turkestanicum were found in the feces of a plowing bull.
  • (17) Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” From the prosecutor and the grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to the halls of Congress – where reform ideas like the End Racial Profiling Act or the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act have hit a dead end – and a thousand places in between, our government institutions have been largely unresponsive to demands for real structural reform.
  • (18) Alleviation of arsenic phytotoxicity has been attempted by increasing the soil pH, by use of iron or aluminum sulfate, by desorbing arsenate with phosphate and subsequent leaching, and by cultural practices such as deep plowing.
  • (19) It destroyed 150 acres of land and plowed through hills next to subdivisions containing hundreds of homes.
  • (20) Nitrate-N accumulation in the 0 to 3 foot profile in late July was reduced by 75% (no tillage) to 38% (chisel plow) compared with the conventional moldboard tillage system in this 8-year-old study.