Plowed vs Flowed - What's the difference?
plowed | flowed |
(plow)
Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
(figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
(US, informal) Drunk.
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(flow)
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
As verbs the difference between plowed and flowed
is that plowed is past tense of plow while flowed is past tense of flow.As an adjective plowed
is turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).plowed
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* ploughedVerb
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- We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed .
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- Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed . That was my week of being "on the wagon."
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- I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed .
Synonyms
* (drunk) see also .flowed
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* *flow
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* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.