What's the difference between scow and stow?

Scow


Definition:

  • (n.) A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
  • (v. t.) To transport in a scow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to Adam Scow, California director of Food and Water Watch , the governor and state agencies could in theory disregard the legislature and act on the California constitution which bars “waste or unreasonable use” of the state’s water supply.
  • (2) We need to start managing and protecting groundwater as a public resource,” Scow said.
  • (3) In each group 60 and 90% pancreatectomies were performed in accordance with Scow's method, and the simple laparotomy group was used as control.
  • (4) It certainly makes sense for everybody to reduce their water use – we’re not against these proposals,” said Adam Scow, the California director of Food & Water Watch, who has been critical of the governor’s plan.

Stow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
  • (v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
  • (2) "Stowe was one of the most important political gardens of the 18th century, open to the public then, and still open today," she says.
  • (3) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
  • (4) His successor must also respond to a world in which more and more screens are stowed in the pocket and viewed on the move.
  • (5) The CO2 electrode concept had occurred to Gesell in 1925, but for measurement of gas only, and to Gertz and Loeschcke, who were unaware of the Stow-Severinghaus electrode, in 1958.
  • (6) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
  • (7) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
  • (8) He decided he would start stowing away rare indigenous grape varieties with the goal of preserving as much diversity as he could.
  • (9) The classrooms have hooks on the back wall to stow jackets and bags, to stop them getting in the way.
  • (10) Southwark Cathedral, once the parish church of St Mary Overie, doesn’t seem particularly far away, it has to be said but this could, nonetheless, be what Stow was talking about.
  • (11) It's manual labor, basically doing inventory counts or stowing inventory," he explains.
  • (12) Trump’s plane does without the emergency medical facilities secreted on Air Force One, which has an operating table discreetly stowed in a wall like a fold-up bed.
  • (13) A Metropolitan police spokesman said today that he was arrested for stowing away in an aircraft contrary to the Air Navigation Order 2009.
  • (14) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
  • (15) According to the Civil Aviation Authority, 2.4m tonnes of air cargo has been carried in and out of the UK in the year to date, two-thirds of it stowed in the holds of passenger planes.
  • (16) The man who crashed to earth in a south-west London suburb on Sunday made his doomed attempt to stow away to Heathrow on a British Airways plane flying from Luanda, the Angolan capital, flight data records and a handful of money suggest.
  • (17) New reports documenting the dangers of the camp are published every week; on Monday Unicef research suggested that the Calais refugee children were risking their lives 2,000 times a week to reach Britain, trying to stow away in lorries or jump on trains.
  • (18) Speaking just days after it emerged British police stepped in to rescue a seven-year-old Afghan boy who had stowed in a lorry from the French port, after he sent a text he was suffocating, Alf Dubs has called on the prime minister to take urgent action to provide a safe passage for child refugees.
  • (19) One Sudanese man said: “I would never try in Belgium because there the port is international, you wouldn’t know where you’re going if you stowed away.” Several were afraid of going to the Netherlands for fear that, if they were caught by police, they would be forced to declare asylum on the spot.
  • (20) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.

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