I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ploughed field
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It was difficult walking across the ploughed field.
plough a field (= make long deep lines in the ground so that you can grow crops )
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The farmer was using a tractor to plough the field.
snow plough
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a snow plough turn
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
snow
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After a few falls we all managed to get to the bottom of the slope in a snow plough position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Half a million acres came newly under the plough between 1761 and 1792, one million more during the Napoleonic Wars.
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I just took a plough over the whole field.
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Inland, the rich red of the plough fields glowed in the sunshine.
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Nos. 44 and 48 passed to London Transport still with bogie mounted plough carriers.
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Otherwise a simple plough was used.
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The introduction of the plough made possible much greater density of population, concentrated in villages and manors.
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They were more commonly called plough-bullocks from the fact that they pulled the plough in the procession.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
back
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The profits made by the sale of goods are ploughed back into wild bird conservation.
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Money ploughed back , no change for pleasures, the food on the table always plain.
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Savings made through greater efficiency will be ploughed back into the Service.
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In 1989 £60 million worth of parish or diocesan contributions was ploughed back into stipends.
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Even the sooty thatch from the houses was ploughed back into the land.
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The profits of the news business were never substantial and much was ploughed back into expansion.
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He says the fibrous nature of Linseed makes it impossible to plough back into the soil.
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Receipts from the sale of the licences would be ploughed back into the provision of improved public transport.
on
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He ploughed on , trying to outline his plans for the paper, and engage Sutton's attention.
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At any rate, we ploughed on and in due course reached the designated spot.
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Liz smiled to herself, triumphant, and ploughed on towards Kate.
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But evolution ploughed on remorselessly, enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage.
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While here at home the Liederene ploughs on , Though many punters think the magic's gone.
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Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year.
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The trawler ploughed on , leaving the fishermen clinging to pieces of wreckage.
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At Fobney the light has gone so we stop and fit the torch and then plough on once more.
up
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Often they are ploughed up from agricultural land, lone victims, their bodies incomplete.
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It was like a huge farm implement ploughing up one pale flower, not quite crushing it.
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Rules allowing farmers to cut set-aside fields to control weeds have resulted in many nests being ploughed up or crushed by machinery.
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There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago.
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They were ploughing up one of the fields near the river.
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Suddenly, Ted was aware that he was ploughing up something other than earth.
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Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake, they were all ploughed up .
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No one tried to plough up the minefield.
■ NOUN
field
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It would have been easier to drive across a ploughed field .
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There was no more open country now; we camped always on dark, ploughed fields .
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These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields .
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The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.
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In Suffolk it was customary until recent years to plough a field in stetches or lands of varying widths.
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He went back as directed, and found the man he had in mind, who was ploughing his family fields .
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Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field .
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How can we have grain without oxen to plough the fields ?
furrow
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He did not merely walk barefoot in the pine needles, but dug his toes in so that they ploughed a shallow furrow .
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Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware.
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The one who ploughed the straightest furrow as declared the winner.
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We called ploughing the last furrow in a stetch taking up the brew.
land
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Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser - all you had to do was to plough it into the land .
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The sun had baked the ploughed land into a grey mass, with little cracks running through it.
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Often they are ploughed up from agricultural land , lone victims, their bodies incomplete.
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After careful consideration Ted decided to deep plough the land and prepare it for cultivation.
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Even the sooty thatch from the houses was ploughed back into the land .
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He has ploughed the land many times and could have set something off at any time.
profit
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During that period, dearer rents were not entirely ploughed into higher profits for the development companies and institutional landlords.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The fields are ploughed as soon as the winter crop is removed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.
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Farming practice in recent years has moved to autumn ploughing and early sowing of oil-seed rape and winter wheat.
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It appears their chair had ploughed into the back of another.
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It was like a huge farm implement ploughing up one pale flower, not quite crushing it.
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Koju was an illiterate villager who had spent his life in the desert ploughing dust with oxen.
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Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.
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The land is ploughed and then the seed is sown, the crop sprayed, the harvest taken, and so on.