furrow

  • 61plough a furrow — Brit literary ◇ If you plough your own furrow, you do something that is different from what other people do. She was not afraid to plough her own furrow. [=to act independently; to do something no one else has done] If you plough the same furrow …

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  • 62Cleavage furrow — In this electron micrograph of a cell, the cleavage furrow has nearly completely divided the cell …

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  • 63Peppery furrow shell — Taxobox name = Peppery furrow shell image width = 240px regnum = Animalia phylum = Mollusca classis = Bivalvia subclassis = Heterodonta ordo = Veneroida superfamilia = Tellinoidea familia = Semelidae genus = Scrobicularia genus authority =… …

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  • 64dead furrow — noun : a double furrow left in the middle of a field or between two lands in plowing * * * dead furrow, the furrow that remains open in the center of a field in plowing …

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  • 65water furrow — noun Etymology: Middle English water forowe, from Old English wæterfurh, from wæter water + furh furrow more at water, furrow : a furrow for conducting or diverting water …

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  • 66Cross furrow — Cross Cross (kr[o^]s), a. 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. [1913 Webster] The cross refraction of the second prism. Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster] 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected;… …

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  • 67Water furrow — Wa ter fur row (Agric.) A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 68Rig and furrow — was a type of cultivation practised in upland areas of the British Isles which differs slightly from the more common ridge and furrow in that it appears to have been created through excavation by spade rather than plough.The technique improved… …

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  • 69toothed furrow — (Subclass Mystacocarida): Pair of elongate, toothed depressions, one in dorsolateral surface of each thoracoabdominal somite, in maxillipedal somite (maxillipedal lateral toothed furrow), and in posterior region of cephalon (maxillary lateral… …

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  • 70plough a lone furrow — plough a lone/lonely furrow mainly British, literary to do something alone and without help from other people. He d always been happier working in isolation, ploughing a lone furrow …

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