What's the difference between furrow and rove?

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.

Rove


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
  • (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  • (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  • (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
  • (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  • (v. t.) To wander over or through.
  • (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During stereotactic surgery, electrical impedance was measured by means of a roving electrode technique with a sine wave current of 10 kc.
  • (2) Following spontaneous horizontal roving eye movement, both eyes deviated downward slowly from midposition, taking 1 to 2 seconds to reach the nadir.
  • (3) As his career has progressed, he has homed in ever closer on his immediate landscape, while roving further across history, literature and human consciousness – usually right out to the edges.
  • (4) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
  • (5) When roving forward City looked a team coasting in low gear who might punish the visitors at will.
  • (6) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
  • (7) Rove is one of the most infamous faces of the GOP so having him speculate publicly about possible brain damage left the crowd “stunned”, reported the New York Post , with Clinton’s team immediately dismissing it and a former White House communications director who worked with Rove calling his comments “off the wall”.
  • (8) Both the prominent conservative strategist Karl Rove and the oil tycoons the Koch brothers have been putting together their own voter databases, but there is understood to be no communication between the lists, thus limiting their potency.
  • (9) The phenomenon of roving eye movement is discussed with regard to the supranuclear structures regulating binocular eye movements.
  • (10) You never ask a question and give your opponent a chance to offer an answer," Rove said.
  • (11) The model is compared to some published data on loudness matching and discrimination and to some new data of our own on the variability of loudness comparisons obtained in a two-interval, roving-level, loudness-discrimination experiment.
  • (12) This high degree of genetic variability comes from the traditional local population that is in the process of being upgraded to standardized breeds such as Saanen, Rove and, mainly, Chamois Alpine (95 percent of upgraded flocks).
  • (13) Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred.
  • (14) Like many of the subjects of Louis Theroux's Twilight of the Porn Stars ( Sun, 10pm, BBC2 ), Michaels first met the roving documentarian 15 years ago, when he was shooting the first series of Weird Weekends.
  • (15) His strategist Steve Bannon, the Riefenstahl -inspired new Karl Rove, has boasted of being the man behind the plan.
  • (16) Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove).
  • (17) Adelson and his wife provided $10m of that last-minute total as well as $23m to American Crossroads, another pro-Romney Super Pac headed by veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove.
  • (18) The frequency discrimination threshold was measured at 15-, 35-, and 55-dB sensation level (SL), under conditions of (1) constant intensity, (2) roving intensity (plus and minus 6-dB burst-to-burst variation in intensity), (3) upward frequency change, and (4) downward frequency change.
  • (19) • Karl Rove's American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have decided to open the vaults for the biggest ad buy yet of this cycle.
  • (20) He had been on the receiving end of a four-year assault from the American right – the alternative universe embodied by Fox News, which tore itself apart on air as pundit Karl Rove refused to accept the cold, hard facts set out by Fox's own number-crunchers – which sought to "other" the US president, to paint him as Barack Hussein Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Muslim bent on destroying America.