What's the difference between mow and mown?

Mow


Definition:

  • (n.) A wry face.
  • (v. i.) To make mouths.
  • (n.) Same as Mew, a gull.
  • (pres. sing.) of Mow
  • (v.) May; can.
  • (v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
  • (v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
  • (v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
  • (v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
  • (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  • (n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
  • (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (2) Mowing was very effective when it was done at a height of 2 cm from the soil.
  • (3) Four years ago, a poll of DC energy insiders found that 91% thought Transcanada (the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline) would quickly and easily acquire the permit for the pipeline; the company was so confident that they mowed the strip they were about to dig up across the centre of the country.
  • (4) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
  • (5) --predators-placing without previous grass-mowing is effective only on banks of rivers.
  • (6) Highest was the activity of lucerne from the first mowing, gradually decreasing in each of the following mowings.
  • (7) "They're burning billions of dollars to catch a guy who wants to mow somebody's lawn."
  • (8) We believe that the increased nasal and ocular symptoms coincident with lawn mowing are allergic phenomena significantly associated with skin test sensitivity and specific IgE antibodies to grass pollens but not with sensitivity or specific IgE to molds or grass-leaf extract.
  • (9) When it's all done, you look back and you're like: 'Oh look, I mowed a whole lawn.
  • (10) Variations were likewise established in the content of genestein and cumestrol in dependence on the mowing itself and the yield.
  • (11) Westminster map The fact is that the attacker in his attempt to spread terror, was reduced to mowing down pedestrians on a crowded Westminster Bridge to tragically fatal effect.
  • (12) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
  • (13) Ecological Impacts "Minimal" George said the overall ecological impact of mowing the grass and removing the beetles would likely be "minimal."
  • (14) Positive skin tests to grasses, trees, and weed pollens were more frequent in those patients with symptoms exacerbated by lawn mowing (p less than 0.03).
  • (15) Not the drunk neighbour who called us little black bastards, even when we mowed his lawn for him.
  • (16) A number of individuals with perennial or seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis state that their symptoms may suddenly worsen on exposure to lawn mowing.
  • (17) The spiel for Jeff Allen’s book, Get Laid Or Die Trying , entices the reader by promising to teach them tactics for: “Deflecting last-minute resistance with a single word” and “Convincing a girl you just met that before you fuck her, she must mow your lawn” and he gets around his home of San Francisco in a vehicle he’s nicknamed a “rape van” .
  • (18) 6.24am GMT Third set: Dimitrov* 5-4 Nadal Dimitrov positively mows through the next game to make it 5-4!
  • (19) Graham, the Fish and Wildlife biologist, compared the mowing to the hay harvesting that regularly takes place in the region's ranches.
  • (20) All samples demonstrated that genestein was present in the first and fourth mowing, while the content of cumestrol varied within a wide range showing no markedly expressed correlations.

Mown


Definition:

  • () of Mow
  • (p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (2) In two grazing experiments carried out in 1982 and 1983 the prophylactic effect on gastro-intestinal helminthiasis of a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after turnout was studied in animals which were turned out early on contaminated pasture and in calves which were turned out late on mown pasture.
  • (3) After thorough cleaning and decontamination of fecings and cages and burning of the mown grass during the period from August 1971 to April 1972, the park was repopulated with deer free from tuberculosis.
  • (4) Quickly the lights went on and different witnesses described the clear ripple effect of the crowd – “like a gust of wind through wheat” – as people were mown down by gunfire and rows of people dropped to the ground.
  • (5) And then the car just carried on up the bridge and I just looked around and was really in shock.” Radosław Sikorski, a former Polish foreign minister, saw at least five people lying on the ground after being “mown down” by a car.
  • (6) West Wittering, West Sussex The approach to these sands is through gorgeous, open Sussex countrysid and there are acres of neatly mown grass where visitors can park before heading for the beach – all 54 acres of it.
  • (7) Doing the same job, his grandmother had been mown down by automatic gunfire and his father blown to pieces by a suicide bomber in separate incidents with separate causes, seven years apart.
  • (8) (It took another three years for the United States to catch up, when an unfortunate pensioner was mown down by a horseless taxicab in New York .)
  • (9) A study was undertaken to ascertain the prophylactic effect on gastrointestinal helminthiasis of (1) a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after a late turnout on mown pasture and (2) two ivermectin treatments of calves 3 and 8 weeks after an early turnout.
  • (10) Any who pause to suggest some plans might be good for patients will be mown down in the stampede.
  • (11) Late turnout on mown pasture without anthelmintic treatment was not enough to prevent heavy infections.
  • (12) In an appendix catches of four spore types by the Hirst and Burkard (field model) spore traps operating over mown grass were compared.
  • (13) Yet the four clips released by CBS did not back up O’Reilly’s repeated claims in recent years that Argentinian forces had mown down protesters with live ammunition, and that O’Reilly himself had seen several demonstrators being shot and killed.
  • (14) They don't have to grow crops or keep animals on the land to get their money, but they do have to keep it mown.
  • (15) Productivity of the strain when inoculating the medium with the aerial-dry inoculum was studied as compared to the inoculation by the inoculum taken from the mown agar.
  • (16) There were shouts of “Murderers!” and “Resign!” as Valls and two other ministers left the seafront, where a huge crowd gathered to remember the 84 people mown down by the truck driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
  • (17) The single ivermectin treatment after a late turnout on mown pasture appeared to be an effective control measure for infections of Cooperia and, in particular, Ostertagia.
  • (18) Those who live in crowded flats, surrounded by concrete, mown grass and other people’s property, cannot escape their captivity without breaking the law.
  • (19) Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Perhaps I was seeing things through Inoki’s eyes or maybe it was simply spring, with the waft of freshly mown grass and cherry blossom on the breeze, but I began to marvel at the grace of CMK’s broad boulevards.
  • (20) Then, in 2008, diggers were savaged by police dogs, mown down by helicopter machine guns or buried alive.

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