Mow vs Far - What's the difference?
mow | far |
To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
*, 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
To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
* Tyndale
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.
Remote in space.
Remote in time.
Long.
More remote or longer of two.
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Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
* F. Anstey
(computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
Distant in space, time or degree.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
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(lb) Very much.
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English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )Verb
- He mowed the lawn .
Derived terms
* mow downEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Make mows at him.
Verb
(en verb)- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing .
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
See also
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiesfar
English
(wikipedia far)Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther.
Antonyms
* (remote in space) close, nearDerived terms
* afar * as far as * by far * faraway * far from * far off * how far * so far * thus farAdverb
(en-adv)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.}}
