Furrow
noun
A long narrow cut in ground or a surface.
He dug a small furrow in the garden to plant the seeds.
Often appears as...
- dig a furrow
- furrow in the ground
noun
A line or wrinkle on someone's face.
She had deep furrows in her forehead from worrying too much.
Often appears as...
- furrows in forehead
- deep furrows
verb
To make a furrow or furrows in.
The farmer furrowed the land in preparation for planting crops.
Often appears as...
- furrow the field
- furrow the land
verb
To become marked with lines or wrinkles.
His forehead furrowed as he concentrated on the difficult question.
Often appears as...
- furrow the brow
- furrow the forehead
noun
A long narrow cut in ground or a surface.
He dug a small furrow in the garden to plant the seeds.
Often appears as...
- dig a furrow
- furrow in the ground
noun
A line or wrinkle on someone's face.
She had deep furrows in her forehead from worrying too much.
Often appears as...
- furrows in forehead
- deep furrows
verb
To make a furrow or furrows in.
The farmer furrowed the land in preparation for planting crops.
Often appears as...
- furrow the field
- furrow the land
verb
To become marked with lines or wrinkles.
His forehead furrowed as he concentrated on the difficult question.
Often appears as...
- furrow the brow
- furrow the forehead
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Pro Tip 1/2Farming Context
Often used to describe the act of preparing soil for planting.
The tractor made even furrows for the spring planting.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Mark
Refers to a visible, often straight indentation in a surface.
The wheels left deep furrows in the muddy road.
Pro Tip 1/2Farming Context
Often used to describe the act of preparing soil for planting.
The tractor made even furrows for the spring planting.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Mark
Refers to a visible, often straight indentation in a surface.
The wheels left deep furrows in the muddy road.
Pro Tip 1/2Farming Context
Often used to describe the act of preparing soil for planting.
The tractor made even furrows for the spring planting.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Mark
Refers to a visible, often straight indentation in a surface.
The wheels left deep furrows in the muddy road.
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Nuts About Nuts PIPE Tiny...
lots of fat and you can use that fat during the winter but if you're tiny you can't do that so the chipmunk has have another strategy and what it does is it furrows underground and then spends a month or so before the winter comes furiously frantically collecting acorns now collecting acorns for a little creature
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Robert Thurman:...
And that is where you then look at the reality of all the beings you can think of. And you look at them, and you see how they are. And you realize how unhappy they are actually, mostly, most of the time. You see that furrowed brow in people. And then you realize they don't even have compassion on themselves.
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Rana el Kaliouby: This...
Now that was a big smile. Can you try a subtle smile to see if the computer can recognize? It does recognize subtle smiles as well. We've worked really hard to make that happen. And then eyebrow raised, indicator of surprise. Brow furrow, which is an indicator of confusion.
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Laurie Santos: How...
And I'm seeing a lot of furrowed brows out there. So maybe you're having the same intuitions as the subjects that were actually tested in this, which is when presented with these options, people don't choose to play it safe. They actually tend to go a little risky.
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Paul Debevec animates a...
but all sorts of different skin buckling and skin wrinkling occurs. You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture. You can see the furrows in the brow and how the microstructure changes there.
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How fast are you moving...
The Enterprise's speed is warp 7 relative to the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair. But depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of miles/hour relative to Earth's center. When we furrow a brow and ask,
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Safari Live - Day 23 PIPE...
good low angle and after this I'm not sure what our views will be like we've ducked into a little drainage furrow so we should get some great views as he parades through this grass that is of course if he continues in the direction
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Humanity's Search for...
was thought to be what was called an "island universe" beyond the edge of which lay cold, dark nothingness. But when Hubble looked at the photograph the next morning and compared it to previous ones, he furrowed his brow
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Here, Cutting Down...
the ground and then nature will take its course we can see here one of the old Horace tree furrows that would have been plowed gradually that the bulb muscles are filling up over the forestry residue
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
he's aiming for that termite mound what I'm trying to do is get parallel to him he's going to go investigate that furrow all right I'm gonna figure out
Video examples
Nuts About Nuts PIPE Tiny...
lots of fat and you can use that fat during the winter but if you're tiny you can't do that so the chipmunk has have another strategy and what it does is it furrows underground and then spends a month or so before the winter comes furiously frantically collecting acorns now collecting acorns for a little creature
Video examples
Robert Thurman:...
And that is where you then look at the reality of all the beings you can think of. And you look at them, and you see how they are. And you realize how unhappy they are actually, mostly, most of the time. You see that furrowed brow in people. And then you realize they don't even have compassion on themselves.
Video examples
Rana el Kaliouby: This...
Now that was a big smile. Can you try a subtle smile to see if the computer can recognize? It does recognize subtle smiles as well. We've worked really hard to make that happen. And then eyebrow raised, indicator of surprise. Brow furrow, which is an indicator of confusion.
Video examples
Laurie Santos: How...
And I'm seeing a lot of furrowed brows out there. So maybe you're having the same intuitions as the subjects that were actually tested in this, which is when presented with these options, people don't choose to play it safe. They actually tend to go a little risky.
Video examples
Paul Debevec animates a...
but all sorts of different skin buckling and skin wrinkling occurs. You can see that the skin pore structure changes enormously from stretched skin pores to the regular skin texture. You can see the furrows in the brow and how the microstructure changes there.
Video examples
How fast are you moving...
The Enterprise's speed is warp 7 relative to the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair. But depending on where you sit, it is hundreds of miles/hour relative to Earth's center. When we furrow a brow and ask,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 23 PIPE...
good low angle and after this I'm not sure what our views will be like we've ducked into a little drainage furrow so we should get some great views as he parades through this grass that is of course if he continues in the direction
Video examples
Humanity's Search for...
was thought to be what was called an "island universe" beyond the edge of which lay cold, dark nothingness. But when Hubble looked at the photograph the next morning and compared it to previous ones, he furrowed his brow
Video examples
Here, Cutting Down...
the ground and then nature will take its course we can see here one of the old Horace tree furrows that would have been plowed gradually that the bulb muscles are filling up over the forestry residue
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
he's aiming for that termite mound what I'm trying to do is get parallel to him he's going to go investigate that furrow all right I'm gonna figure out
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Quote examples
Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.
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Julia Davis
English Comedian
I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.
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Jim Crace
English Writer
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
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Matthew Stewart
American Philosopher
During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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Amy Heckerling
American Director
When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
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Louis Agassiz
Swiss Scientist
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
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Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian Scientist
A brow furrow is a very important indicator of confusion or concentration, and it can be a negative facial expression.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
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Jean Henri Fabre
French Author
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
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Keith Allen
Welsh Actor
It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.
Quote examples
Julia Davis
English Comedian
I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.
Quote examples
John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.
Quote examples
Jim Crace
English Writer
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
Quote examples
Matthew Stewart
American Philosopher
During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
Quote examples
Amy Heckerling
American Director
When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
Quote examples
Louis Agassiz
Swiss Scientist
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Quote examples
Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian Scientist
A brow furrow is a very important indicator of confusion or concentration, and it can be a negative facial expression.
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Herman Melville
American Novelist
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
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Jean Henri Fabre
French Author
Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
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