Mower
noun
A machine or person that cuts grass.
He uses a mower to keep his lawn neat and tidy.
Often appears as...
- lawn mower
- grass mower
noun
A type of bird known as a 'Mower'.
The field was filled with mowers foraging for food.
Often appears as...
- common mower
- mower bird
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A machine or person that cuts grass.
He uses a mower to keep his lawn neat and tidy.
Often appears as...
- lawn mower
- grass mower
noun
A type of bird known as a 'Mower'.
The field was filled with mowers foraging for food.
Often appears as...
- common mower
- mower bird
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Machine vs Person
Understand that 'mower' can refer to both a person who mows and the machine they use.
Tom, the mower, finishes work before the mower needs refueling.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Mowers
'Mower' can mean different types—some are pushed manually, others you can ride on.
The groundskeeper chose a riding mower for the large park.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Usage
'Mower' is often used in a casual context when talking about garden maintenance.
Could you start the mower and cut the grass?
Pro Tip 1/3Machine vs Person
Understand that 'mower' can refer to both a person who mows and the machine they use.
Tom, the mower, finishes work before the mower needs refueling.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Mowers
'Mower' can mean different types—some are pushed manually, others you can ride on.
The groundskeeper chose a riding mower for the large park.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Usage
'Mower' is often used in a casual context when talking about garden maintenance.
Could you start the mower and cut the grass?
Pro Tip 1/3Machine vs Person
Understand that 'mower' can refer to both a person who mows and the machine they use.
Tom, the mower, finishes work before the mower needs refueling.
Pro Tip 2/3Types of Mowers
'Mower' can mean different types—some are pushed manually, others you can ride on.
The groundskeeper chose a riding mower for the large park.
Pro Tip 3/3Colloquial Usage
'Mower' is often used in a casual context when talking about garden maintenance.
Could you start the mower and cut the grass?
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Cicadas: The dormant...
In fact, if you happen to be using a chain saw or a lawn mower, male cicadas will flock to you, thinking that you're one of them. Now, like most things in nature, the cicadas don't arrive without a posse. There are all sort of awesome and gross predators and parasites that come along with the buzzing bugs.
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John Hockenberry: We are...
and why it was important. Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
course of the life of this animal we put a big tongue in here because in fact almost all dinosaurs have two big tongue bones that indicate they did have a loose and free tongue that was used for manipulating plant matter this was a dinosaur that was a this was a fern mower it was dedicated and an eating
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Haunted House in...
so hard and then after I start hollering a sign to stop I realized that he was in the bedroom he'd been asleep so he wasn't knocking on the mower and everybody else is upstairs asleep and it was it housed him after he moved into this house it he started seeing things
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then a lawn mower or a weed whacker is
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Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
a sit on lawn mower and she went below one of our apricot trees and there was a swarm of bees that attacked her and she got stung must have been about twenty or twenty-five tomczak watch quite excessive anyway she went inside she got
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Can plants talk to each...
especially when they're under attack. These signals take two through the air, and through the soil. When plant leaves get damaged, whether by hungry insects or an invading lawn mower, they release plumes of volatile chemicals.
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Bargaining for Boards PIPE...
need those supplies I see Walt ants cook stoves and so forth so that's why they buy it from us you interested in that they can't host interfere yeah I got a lawn mower I'd sell a pair of them for 90 40 for
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"Lawn Mower" Dinosaur...
I'm gonna tell a story from the mesozoic today and for that we need a Mesozoic stage that's about 110 million year old dinosaur dubbed the fern mower for its
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Giant Vacuum to Help...
collection of the arthropod food web and we do this by vacuum sampling so we have a backpack with a lawn mower engine on it and it connects to a big hose and
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Cicadas: The dormant...
In fact, if you happen to be using a chain saw or a lawn mower, male cicadas will flock to you, thinking that you're one of them. Now, like most things in nature, the cicadas don't arrive without a posse. There are all sort of awesome and gross predators and parasites that come along with the buzzing bugs.
Video examples
John Hockenberry: We are...
and why it was important. Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
Video examples
Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
course of the life of this animal we put a big tongue in here because in fact almost all dinosaurs have two big tongue bones that indicate they did have a loose and free tongue that was used for manipulating plant matter this was a dinosaur that was a this was a fern mower it was dedicated and an eating
Video examples
Haunted House in...
so hard and then after I start hollering a sign to stop I realized that he was in the bedroom he'd been asleep so he wasn't knocking on the mower and everybody else is upstairs asleep and it was it housed him after he moved into this house it he started seeing things
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
have a situation you want to have long grass and have I don't know why you'd want actually fetching grass in this it's a farm area I don't know or maybe you like the wilderness feel in your backyard but otherwise if you don't then a lawn mower or a weed whacker is
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Safari Live - Day 190 PIPE...
a sit on lawn mower and she went below one of our apricot trees and there was a swarm of bees that attacked her and she got stung must have been about twenty or twenty-five tomczak watch quite excessive anyway she went inside she got
Video examples
Can plants talk to each...
especially when they're under attack. These signals take two through the air, and through the soil. When plant leaves get damaged, whether by hungry insects or an invading lawn mower, they release plumes of volatile chemicals.
Video examples
Bargaining for Boards PIPE...
need those supplies I see Walt ants cook stoves and so forth so that's why they buy it from us you interested in that they can't host interfere yeah I got a lawn mower I'd sell a pair of them for 90 40 for
Video examples
"Lawn Mower" Dinosaur...
I'm gonna tell a story from the mesozoic today and for that we need a Mesozoic stage that's about 110 million year old dinosaur dubbed the fern mower for its
Video examples
Giant Vacuum to Help...
collection of the arthropod food web and we do this by vacuum sampling so we have a backpack with a lawn mower engine on it and it connects to a big hose and
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Neal Asher
English Writer
The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.
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Barry Jenkins
American Director
My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
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Chip Gaines
American Entertainer
In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.
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Neal Asher
English Writer
The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.
Quote examples
Barry Jenkins
American Director
My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower out, walk down the neighborhood, cut grass.
Quote examples
Chip Gaines
American Entertainer
In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.
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