Furrow vs Sulcate - What's the difference?
furrow | sulcate |
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
To wrinkle
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.14:
*:The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.
As a noun furrow
is a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.As a verb furrow
is to make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc).As an adjective sulcate is
having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.furrow
English
(Plough)Noun
(en noun)- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Verb
(en verb)- Cart wheels can furrow roads.
- Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.