FURROW


Meaning of FURROW in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (= lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried )

His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

deep

The spouts are placed so as to ensure no seed drops down the deep furrows immediately behind the subsoiler legs.

It scraped enormously over the road, turning a deep furrow in his life.

In fact it was a potato field with two foot deep furrows and tall healthy plants on the tops.

Another sweep along the side of a deep furrow produced a rusted iron belt-buckle of unusual design.

■ VERB

plough

He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles, but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow .

Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.

The one who ploughed the straightest furrow as declared the winner.

We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

plough a lonely/lone furrow

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

All around the furrows in the fields were filled with snow.

The boat's propellers slashed dark furrows in the water.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But when he looked at me, that furrow of care between his eyes turned into a question mark.

Properties within this unit are long and rectangular and there are traces of ridge and furrow in them.

The aim is to create something like this ... and that means the judges methodically comparing furrows.

The forehead is usually divided by a central ridge or furrow as in much of the Negroid work.

The spouts are placed so as to ensure no seed drops down the deep furrows immediately behind the subsoiler legs.

The traffic that had caused the furrows a mile back could not have come this way.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.