(v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
(v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
(v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(2) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(3) Sydney defender Jacques Faty constantly seems a defensive accident waiting to happen, while the club are yet to reap full dividend from their attacking imports at the other end of the field.
(4) High quality display devices are essential to reap any benefits from degradation correction.
(5) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
(6) Amid heightening debate about the future of the two bailed-out banks, Stephen Williams, who was the first Lib Dem MP to lend his support to the distribution of shares to all taxpayers, said: "My Lib Dem colleagues and I will not stand by and watch private investors reap all of the benefits once the banks are taken off taxpayer intensive care.
(7) With a solid business environment, supportive policies and the right outcome from Brexit negotiations allowing for trade and ongoing access to skilled workers, manufacturers should be able to overcome the risks, reap future growth rewards and get their business confidence back on track,” it added.
(8) Maybe the first party to dump its leader will reap the advantages of the pioneer, but such changes are often messy and divisive.
(9) Reaping the benefits of a successful speech to Iowa conservatives the preceding weekend, Walker leapfrogged more established candidates and secured 15% of the vote – up from 4% in October.
(10) David Connell Senior research fellow, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, Archipelago Technology • I hope the new £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester will reap some rewards ( Letters , 5 December).
(11) Add to that the news about unemployment; now down to 7.1% , and rising house prices, and the news that the Bank of England will not soon raise interest rates , and one sees how the prime minister is able to frame a narrative about how the strictures of austerity are beginning to reap the benefits.
(12) Allen may be reaping the reward of keeping non-Italian press out of the first screenings (the version released in Italy has a dubbed dialogue track, which Allen is known to dislike) as he tends to get a better response from non-native critics, who are less attentive to implausible details.
(13) Can we see it all the way through to reap the long-term benefits – as individuals, as a society, as humanity?
(14) It means a Green Investment Bank and Carbon Capture and Storage so we reap the financial rewards of the green energy revolution.
(15) Inevitably, it looks as though corners have been cut and supermarkets will reap the whirlwind in reputational damage.
(16) This is the state reaping rewards for years of policy … [It may be] that officials are going further than Beijing expects, but that this is working on top of what is already a volcano."
(17) But on the morning of 26 March 1996, as his team was preparing to start clearance work in a village in the province of Siem Reap, a group of 30 armed Khmer Rouge guerrillas emerged from the nearby forest.
(18) The applications described here demonstrate new ways that the VA is reaping benefits from its infrastructure and its compatible integrated hospital information systems located at its facilities.
(19) Care home employees often work long hours and their jobs can be challenging – any employer who recognises this by paying their lowest paid staff no less than the living wage will certainly reap the benefits,” she says.
(20) His office says work in countries such as Kazakhstan helps fund pro bono work in Africa – and it dismisses reports of reaping £16m in fees from Astana as inflated, and says Blair makes no personal profit.
Sow
Definition:
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(n.) A sow bug.
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
(5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
(13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
(15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
(19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
(20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).