What's the difference between ploughshare and plowman?

Ploughshare


Definition:

  • (n.) The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
  • (2) While most of Europe beat swords into ploughshares, Britain continued to spend heavily on defence.
  • (3) It’s the clock, it’s the weight of multiple [legislative] vehicles but no agreement on the way forward, it’s the key leaders on the committees, and it’s the dynamic that will change in response to a discussion of something real” with Iran, said Joel Rubin of the Ploughshares Fund, a former State Department official and congressional aide.
  • (4) 12.6.11 In a small piece in the Observer , Neate reveals the Ministry of Defence's civilian research arm, Ploughshare Innovations, and various private investors are suing the US company 3M for up to £41m in damages for not commercially developing a new technology that could have been vital in the fight against the deadly MRSA hospital superbug.
  • (5) As with French-German relations after the second world war, Israeli-Palestinian relations will advance if we nurture their inter-related economic development, so that “they beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks”.
  • (6) Philip Yun is the executive director & COO of the Ploughshares Fund Daryl Kimball Photograph: NK News Daryl Kimball : Near zero chance of premeditated attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons test explosion on 12 February 2013 – its third – has been the single-most worrisome development in recent years .
  • (7) It would be a useful change, but I just can’t see them doing it in the last few months of the administration.” Even staunch arms control advocates such as Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund said the administration may have left it too late to make meaningful changes.
  • (8) The martial Sikh – no one could doubt his valour or patriotism – had taken up, if not the ploughshare, then the latest fertiliser (although a disproportionately large number of soldiers in the Indian army were and are Sikh), and achieved successes on farmland comparable to battles fought and won.
  • (9) Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund , a Washington-based non-proliferation organisation, said: "The main beneficiaries of the Amano reign have been US policy and the Japanese nuclear power industry.

Plowman


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Ploughman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main issue is coping with Brexit,” said John Plowman, a local resident.
  • (2) [BBC comedy executive producer] Jon Plowman wasn't sure what Asian comedy was – and neither were we, we just knew what made us laugh.
  • (3) When they fund, and nurture and guide Graham Linehan, Adam Curtis, Nira Park, John Lloyd, Steven Moffat, Charlie Brooker, Julia Davies, Iain Morris, Simon Cowell, Jon Plowman, Shane Meadows, Aardman Animation, and hundreds more like them, producers and writers, many of whom are not household names, but who have a consistent passion for striking ideas, all part of the collective and exceptional TV talent in the UK.
  • (4) Epithelin 1 and 2 were originally purified from rat kidneys based on their ability to inhibit the growth of A-431 human epidermoid carcinoma cells (Shoyab, M., McDonald, V.L., Byles, C., Todaro, G.J., and Plowman, G.D. (1990) Proc.
  • (5) People were heavily and passionately against them,” Plowman said.
  • (6) Parents should look for apps produced by broadcasters or companies that know a great deal about this age group.” Fellow researcher Lydia Plowman, from Edinburgh University, added: “It may seem surprising that in homes with a tablet, nearly a third of under-fives have their own device.
  • (7) Cattrall said she was attracted to the project following a meeting with the BBC's comedy chief at the time, Jon Plowman, citing Absolutely Fabulous and Extras as inspiration.
  • (8) Billy Edwin Plowman Streeten died on 19 September 1995, aged two years and two months.

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