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Definition: Furrow |
FurrowNoun1. A long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow). 2. A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles". Verb1. Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil". 2. Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow". 3. Cut a furrow into a columns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "furrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Furrow an opening in the ground made by the plough (Ps. 65:10; Hos. 10:4, 10). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Narrow ditches made by cultivation implements between rows of crops. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | A fissure which penetrates into a continental or insular shelf in a direction more or less perpendicular to the coast line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FurrowSynonyms: crinkle (n), line (n), seam (n), chamfer (v), chase (v), crease (v), groove (v), rut (v), wrinkle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furrow | Verb: furrow; Noun: flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in. |
Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole. | |
Interval | Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness. |
Probity | Verb: be honorable; Adjective: deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth; (veracity); draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty; (virtue). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Furrow |
| English words defined with "furrow": Cell division, chamfer, Chamfret, channel, chase, Contorniate, Cross furrow, cut ♦ fissure of Rolando, flute, fluting, Furrowing ♦ gash, Gauge wheel, Gonidium, groove ♦ Lister, lister plough, lister plow ♦ middle buster, middlebreaker, moldboard, mouldboard ♦ Plough, Ploughfoot, plow ♦ ridge, rut ♦ Subsoil plow, Sulcation ♦ Underfurrow ♦ vallecula ♦ Water furrow, Wheel plough, Wheel plow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "furrow": BLEACH PACKER ♦ cast-off unploughed strip ♦ dead furrow ♦ earth furrow ♦ FARM-MACHINE OPERATOR, FARMWORKER, VEGETABLE II ♦ garden worker, Gunpowder ♦ KNIFE SETTER ♦ laborer, vegetable farm, Low-flow irrigation systems ♦ open furrow ♦ plough body, plough carriage, plow bottom, plow carriage, plow share ♦ sclerae, sole furrow, sulcus sclerae, surface irrigation ♦ tree-shaped method ♦ vegetable worker ♦ watering under the vines. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "furrow": Zastrugi. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Life's Furrow (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A farmer adjusts siphon tubes on furrow irrigated lettuce near Phoeniz, AZ. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Furrow irrigation using siphon tubes from a lateral waterway. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | An NRCS technician adjusts a flow meter used to measure the flow rate of irrigation water in a furrow. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Furrow flood irrigation on a field of broccoli raised for seed. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Level furrow irrigation on a field of lettuce. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Siphon tubes used for furrow irrigation on Romaine lettuce. Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Hunger rising from the furrow and disease rising from the river |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Various water saving techniques are employed on only about 10 percent of surface-irrigated land using land leveling, small ditch or furrow irrigation, canal and ditch leakage prevention, and closed conduit water transportation. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels. Moreover, it has the hearty concurrence of the Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson became interested in gunpowder through an event that occurred on the Government experimental farm in the District of Columbia. One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the sed of the Flashawful flabbergastor, a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate. The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil. This he at once proceeded to do, and had made a continuous line of it all the way across a ten-acre field, when he was made to look backward by a shout from the generous donor, who at once dropped a lighted match into the furrow at the starting-point. Contact with the earth had somewhat dampened the powder, but the startled functionary saw himself pursued by a tall moving pillar of fire and smoke and fierce evolution. He stood for a moment paralyzed and speechless, then he recollected an engagement and, dropping all, absented himself thence with such surprising celerity that to the eyes of spectators along the route selected he appeared like a long, dim streak prolonging itself with inconceivable rapidity through seven villages, and audibly refusing to be comforted. "Great Scott! what is that?" cried a surveyor's chainman, shading his eyes and gazing at the fading line of agriculturist which bisected his visible horizon. "That," said the surveyor, carelessly glancing at the phenomenon and again centering his attention upon his instrument, "is the Meridian of Washington." H |
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| "Furrow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.22% of the time. "Furrow" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.22% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "furrow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Furrow | Last name | 1,000 | 14,324 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "furrow". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Talmai | N/A | Biblical | My furrow |
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Expressions using "furrow": Cross furrow ♦ dead furrow ♦ earth furrow ♦ furrow slice ♦ open furrow ♦ sole furrow ♦ To draw a straight furrow ♦ water furrow. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "furrow": furrow-drawing. | |
Ending with "furrow": twelve-furrow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
furrow | 38 |
auction furrow | 6 |
furrow irrigation | 4 |
furrow plow | 3 |
furrow building material | 3 |
buford furrow | 3 |
furrow lumber | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "furrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vazhdë (rail, rut, signs, trace, track, trail, trench), rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, crease, Crinkle, pucker, ruckle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle), rrudh (corrugate, shirr), hulli (rib, stria), hap brazda (plough, plow), brazdë (drill, groove). (various references) | |
Arabic | غصنة, حرث (cultivate, dig, farm, plough, ploughing, plow, stave, till), تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crinkle, crumple, pucker, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), خدد (channel, flute, groove, gully, rut, spline), جعدة (crumple, pucker, wrinkle), جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, ruckle, ruffle, rumple), إتلم (rut), أخدود (channel, flute, fluting, groove, pothole, rut), ثلم (blunt, chase, groove, nick, notch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | улей (gutter, headrace, lead, penstock, quirk, rabbet, run, runway, spout), орна земя (arable, plough, ploughland, plow), оран (ploughing, ploughing-time, tillage, tilth), ора (plough, plow, till), набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, crumple, pucker, purse, ruck, rumple, seam), набраздявам (gully, gutter, line, rib, ridge, seam), бразда (drill, groove, line, notch, rut, score, sulcus), правя бразди (rib), поря (busk, cleave, knife, plough, rip, slice), дълбока бръчка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 犁沟, 畦 (small plot of farm land). (various references) | |
Czech | rýha (Dent, groove, score, stria), brázda (wake), žlábek (cannelure, groove, rabbet). (various references) | |
Danish | læg (calf, wrinkle), fold (fold, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Dutch | voor (as, at, because of, before, by, during, for, for sake of, in, in front of, in order to, like, of, on, on account of, owing to, per, previous to, through, to, toward, towards, until, upon, whereas, while, whilst, wrinkle), rimpelen (wrinkle), geul (wrinkle), fronsen (wrinkle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sulko (wrinkle), sulki (wrinkle). (various references) | |
Faeroese | foyra (wrinkle), rukka (crease, crumble, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Finnish | vako (furrows). (various references) | |
French | sillon (furrows), ride, rider, raie (ploughed furrow). (various references) | |
Frisian | fâld (fold, wrinkle). (various references) | |
German | furche (channel, corrugation, drill, glyph, groove, line, rut, trench, wrinkle), Rille (flute, glyph, groove, score, slot), Nut (groove, notch, rabbet), furchen (furrows, line, rut). (various references) | |
Greek | αυλάκι (channel, ditch, drain, groove, rut, trough, wake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מע ית (sulcus), לתלם (ridge), לקמט (crumple, crush, ruckle, wrinkle), לפלח א"מ" (plough), לחרוש (plough, plow, till), ל' " (strip of field), תלם (groove, ridge, rut). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vápa (gorge, pan, score), vájat (channel, chase, cove, gorge, gouge, groove, gutter, hollow, nick, score, slot), ránc (crease, Crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, pleat, plica, pucker, puckering, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle), huzagolás (chase, rifle, rifling, score, twist), hornyolás (channelling, scallop), hajósodor (wake, wash), hajó nyoma, bevágás (channelling, chase, cut, gorge, incision, indent, kerf, mortice, mortise, Nick, score, scotch, slit, snick), barázda (chase, gouge, groove, gutter, lining, open furrow). (various references) | |
Indonesian | runut (groove, trace), menggangsir (dig a tunel, undermine), kerut (crimp, wreath, wrinkler), galur (channel, groove), alur (channel, gully, plot, slot). (various references) | |
Italian | solco (chute, groove, gully, gutter, line, rut). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 轍 (rut, wheel track), 畝" (room with ridged roof). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うねま (room with ridged roof), わ ち (rut, wheel track). (various references) | |
Korean | 밭 랑. (various references) | |
Manx | traaue (cleave; tilling, plough, plough up, ploughing; leisured), giarrey ny tonnyn, furrey, cur furrey ayn, creagh (stack), craplag (fold, line, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fure (groove), lage furer i. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urrowfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sulco (cannelure, rut, wake, wrinkle), sulcar (channel, rut, wrinkle), rego (drain, gully, race, wrinkle), enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, pucker, ripple, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãgaş (channel, groove, gully, path, rut, track, track of wheels, trend), urmã (atom, clew, clue, footmark, footprint, impress, impression, imprint, indent, jot, Mark, patent office, print, pug, rear, rearward, relic, remnant, rut, scent, seal, shadow, sign, slot, spoor, stamp, step, trace, track, trail, vestige, wake), tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), se zbârci (shrivel up, wrinkle), rid (line, wrinkle), dungã (bar, border, edge, fold, streak, stripe, wrinkle), dârã de corabie, brazdã (balk, baulk, bed, clod, list, rut, swath, trace, track, turf, wake), brãzdãturã, brãzda (gutter, line, plough, ridge, score, slice, streak, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Russian | глубокая морщина, борозда (groove, rut, slot, stria), бороздить борозда, бороздить (busk, plough, plow), пахать (plough, plow, till). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgrìob (a scratch, draw scratches, mark, scratch, trip or, walk), clais (a furrow, ditch, groove). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izbrazdati, brazda (crease, rill, rut, wake). (various references) | |
Spanish | surco (groove, line, stria). (various references) | |
Swedish | fåra (chamfer, groove, line). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เป็นร่อง (rut). (various references) | |
Turkish | tekerlek izi (rut, track), saban izi (groove), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırışık (corrugation, crease, Crinkle, crinkly, crisp, crispy, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), iz açmak, çizgi bırakmak, çizgi (bar, drawing, grain, groove, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, stripe, wheal). (various references) | |
Turkmen | keюlemek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укривати зморшками, колія (rut, track), глибока зморшка, орати (cultivate, plough, plow, till), борозна (fissure, rill, thorough), борознити (channel, plough, plow). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đường rạch (slit). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhych (groove, rut), cwys (furrow slice), atgor (plow, plowingteam, return). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ab-sin. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ara, arabant, arabas, arabes, arabimini, arabis, arabit, arabitur, arabum, arandum, arans, arantem, arantes, arantibus, ararat, arare, arari, aras, arassetis, arastis, arat, arata, arem, ares, aroditarum, sisara, sulci, sulcis, sulcos, versibus, versum, versumque, versus, versuum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "furrow": furrowed, furrower, furrowers, furrowing, furrows, furrowy. (additional references) | |
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"Furrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ducrow, farow, forro, Fugro, furbow, Furlow, furon, furrel, furro, furrown, Furtok, ufdrop, urro, urrow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "furrow" (pronounced fer"ō) |
| 2 | -er" ō | burro, burrow, thorough. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-r-r-u-w" | |
-1 letter: furor. | |
-2 letters: four, frow. | |
-3 letters: for, fou, fro, fur, our, row. | |
-4 letters: of, or, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-r-r-u-w" | |
+1 letter: furrows, furrowy. | |
+2 letters: furrowed, furrower. | |
+3 letters: furrowers, furrowing, sorrowful. | |
+5 letters: sorrowfully. | |
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