Plough
noun
A big tool that farmers use to prepare their land for growing crops by breaking and turning over the soil.
The farmer was using the plough to prepare the field for planting.
Often appears as...
- pull a plough
- plough a field
verb
To cut into or turn over the earth with a plough, especially before sowing.
We will plough the field tomorrow before we plant the seeds.
Often appears as...
- plough a field
- plough a furrow
verb
To move forcefully and continuously forward, especially through a difficult condition or situation.
He had to plough his way through the crowded market.
Often appears as...
- plough through a crowd
- plough into a task
verb
To invest a lot of money into a project or purpose.
They decided to plough all their savings into their new business.
Often appears as...
- plough money into
- plough resources into
verb
In UK, to fail in an examination or test.
I'm afraid I'm going to plough in my physics test tomorrow.
Often appears as...
- plough in a test
- plough in an exam
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A big tool that farmers use to prepare their land for growing crops by breaking and turning over the soil.
The farmer was using the plough to prepare the field for planting.
Often appears as...
- pull a plough
- plough a field
verb
To cut into or turn over the earth with a plough, especially before sowing.
We will plough the field tomorrow before we plant the seeds.
Often appears as...
- plough a field
- plough a furrow
verb
To move forcefully and continuously forward, especially through a difficult condition or situation.
He had to plough his way through the crowded market.
Often appears as...
- plough through a crowd
- plough into a task
verb
To invest a lot of money into a project or purpose.
They decided to plough all their savings into their new business.
Often appears as...
- plough money into
- plough resources into
verb
In UK, to fail in an examination or test.
I'm afraid I'm going to plough in my physics test tomorrow.
Often appears as...
- plough in a test
- plough in an exam
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Term
Primarily used for farming activities, evokes rural life imagery.
The antique plough at the museum shows farming history.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical device
Often found in history or geography textbooks describing old farming techniques.
Students learn how the plough revolutionized agriculture.
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Term
Primarily used for farming activities, evokes rural life imagery.
The antique plough at the museum shows farming history.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical device
Often found in history or geography textbooks describing old farming techniques.
Students learn how the plough revolutionized agriculture.
Pro Tip 1/2Agricultural Term
Primarily used for farming activities, evokes rural life imagery.
The antique plough at the museum shows farming history.
Pro Tip 2/2Historical device
Often found in history or geography textbooks describing old farming techniques.
Students learn how the plough revolutionized agriculture.
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Resilient people,...
plough the mother of Agriculture which turns the soil but has been proven to be a very important source of degrading carbon the largest source of carbon emissions in the world water scarcity loss of biodiversity this is copying nature with minimum disturbance this is a technology that is similar to the
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What I discovered in New...
and interviewed people in offices and facilities all over the city, and I learned a lot, but I was still an outsider. I needed to go deeper. So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now. I drove the trucks. And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.
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Here, Cutting Down...
people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very
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Why I choose humanism...
The good life that we desire will not fall like manna from heaven. My parents did not erect a block apartment by wishing and dreaming. They worked hard, they failed, they tried again. They toiled with rolled-up sleeves, with their hands deep in debt, they plowed ahead,
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John Hunter: Teaching...
and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen. And we'd come in from playing, he'd come in from plowing and working, and we'd sit around that table every night. And as I grew up, I heard so much knowledge and so many insights and so much wisdom
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How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
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From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's really vast so we did this we got the plow we transformed the planet it's the
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The myth of the Sampo—...
its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.
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Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans
well versus look elsewhere for meals using their green tusks to plow into the soft underwater terrain to extract claims worms and other tasty morsels and deep within the heart of the arctic
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Underground Labyrinth Of...
where it's too steep to plow this is the badgers refuge from the modern world it's where they live as they have always done
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Resilient people,...
plough the mother of Agriculture which turns the soil but has been proven to be a very important source of degrading carbon the largest source of carbon emissions in the world water scarcity loss of biodiversity this is copying nature with minimum disturbance this is a technology that is similar to the
Video examples
What I discovered in New...
and interviewed people in offices and facilities all over the city, and I learned a lot, but I was still an outsider. I needed to go deeper. So I took the job as a sanitation worker. I didn't just ride in the trucks now. I drove the trucks. And I operated the mechanical brooms and I plowed the snow.
Video examples
Here, Cutting Down...
people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been plowed through the peat lines are very
Video examples
Why I choose humanism...
The good life that we desire will not fall like manna from heaven. My parents did not erect a block apartment by wishing and dreaming. They worked hard, they failed, they tried again. They toiled with rolled-up sleeves, with their hands deep in debt, they plowed ahead,
Video examples
John Hunter: Teaching...
and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen. And we'd come in from playing, he'd come in from plowing and working, and we'd sit around that table every night. And as I grew up, I heard so much knowledge and so many insights and so much wisdom
Video examples
How to use rhetoric to...
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed
Video examples
From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's really vast so we did this we got the plow we transformed the planet it's the
Video examples
The myth of the Sampo—...
its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.
Video examples
Arctic PIPE Exploring Oceans
well versus look elsewhere for meals using their green tusks to plow into the soft underwater terrain to extract claims worms and other tasty morsels and deep within the heart of the arctic
Video examples
Underground Labyrinth Of...
where it's too steep to plow this is the badgers refuge from the modern world it's where they live as they have always done
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Jerry Spinelli
American Author
Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
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Kate Beckinsale
English Actress
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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George Orwell
British Author
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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Andrew Taylor Still
American Scientist
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
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Augusten Burroughs
American Writer
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
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Abraham Maslow
American Psychologist
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Ernest Gaines
American Writer
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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Sojourner Truth
American Activist
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?
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Jerry Spinelli
American Author
Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.
Quote examples
Kate Beckinsale
English Actress
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
Quote examples
George Orwell
British Author
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Quote examples
Andrew Taylor Still
American Scientist
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
Quote examples
Augusten Burroughs
American Writer
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Quote examples
Abraham Maslow
American Psychologist
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
Quote examples
Ernest Gaines
American Writer
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
Quote examples
Katharine Hepburn
American Actress
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Quote examples
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Quote examples
Sojourner Truth
American Activist
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?
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