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Another word for furrow

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Noun

  1. An indentation or seam on the skin, especially on the face

      1. A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
      2. A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
      3. A different or unexpected development, action, or idea:
      1. A geometric figure formed by a point moving along a fixed direction and the reverse direction.
      2. A thin continuous mark, as that made by a pen, pencil, or brush applied to a surface.
      3. A similar mark cut or scratched into a surface.
      1. To form wrinkles or ripples.
      2. To make a soft crackling sound; rustle.
      3. To cause to crinkle.
      1. A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
      2. In hockey, an area marked in front of the goal in which an offensive player can score a goal only if the puck reaches the area before the player does.
      3. In lacrosse, the circle marked around the goal into which offensive players cannot enter.
    See also:

    smooth

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Another word for furrow

Noun
      1. A long narrow trench or furrow dug in the ground, as for irrigation, drainage, or a boundary line.
      2. To dig or make a long narrow trench or furrow in.
      3. To surround with a long narrow trench or furrow.
      1. The act or process of corrugating.
      2. The state of being corrugated.
      3. A groove or ridge on a corrugated surface.
      1. The bed of a stream or river.
      2. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
      3. A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.
      1. A sunken track or groove made by the passage of vehicles.
      2. An uninspired routine or pattern of behavior that one continues unthinkingly or because change is difficult.
      3. To make ruts in (a path, for example).
    See also:

    wrinkle

    trench

    groove

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Sentence Examples

  • "ploughing his furrow alone," as he afterwards phrased it.

  • Between the Takht Mountain and the Siwaliks, the intervening belt of ridge and furrow has been greatly denuded by transverse drainage - a system of drainage which we now know to have existed before the formation of the hills, and to have continued to cut through them as they gradually rose above the plain level.

  • A narrow deep furrow is usually run immediately in advance of the planter, to break up the soil under the seed.

  • Following in the furrow of an ordinary plough it breaks through the sub-soil to a depth of several inches, making it porous and penetrable by plant roots.

  • (I) The right and left carotids converge towards the middle and extend up the neck, imbedded in a furrow along the ventral surface of the cervical vertebrae.

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