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Furrow vs Sulcate - What's the difference?

furrow | sulcate |

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)
  • A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
  • Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
  • Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
  • A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
  • When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a) groove, a cut(s) in (the ground etc.).
  • Cart wheels can furrow roads.
  • To wrinkle
  • To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to worry, concentration etc.
  • Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate.

    See also

    * plough a lonely furrow

    sulcate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.