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Moded vs Mowed - What's the difference?

moded | mowed |

As verbs the difference between moded and mowed

is that moded is (mode) while mowed is (mow).

As an adjective moded

is (slang) put in an embarrassing situation.

moded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (mode)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Put in an embarrassing situation.
  • outmoded.

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    mowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mow)

    • mow

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )

    Verb

  • To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
    • He mowed the lawn .
    Derived terms
    * mow down

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
  • *:Those that paint them dyingdelineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Make mows at him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make grimaces, mock.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
  • * Tyndale
    • Nodding, becking, and mowing .

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
  • The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To put into mows.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a seagull)
    • (Webster 1913)

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