Sow vs Culture - What's the difference?
sow | culture |
A female pig.
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
(derogatory, slang) A contemptible, often fat woman.
A sowbug.
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
* Addison
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
* Sir M. Hale
* Milton
The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp)
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
(botany) Cultivation.
* http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
(computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
As verbs the difference between sow and culture
is that sow is to scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds) while culture is .As a noun sow
is a female pig.sow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sowe, from (etyl) sugu, from (etyl) (ae)). See also swine .Noun
(en-noun)- In England, it was generally termed a 'sow' , if the weight was above 10 cwts., if below, it was termed a 'pig' from which the present term 'pig iron' is derived.
- (Craig)
Usage notes
The plural form swine is now obsolete in this sense.Synonyms
* (mass of metal solidified in a mold) ingot * (contemptible woman) bitch, cowDerived terms
* make a silk purse of a sow's earSee also
* boar * hog * pigEtymology 2
From (etyl) sowen, from (etyl) .Verb
- When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
- As you sow , so shall you reap.
- And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
- The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
- [He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Synonyms
* plant, scatterDerived terms
* reap what one sows *culture
English
(Culture) (Culture) (Culture) (Culture)Noun
(en noun)Farming as rocket science, passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.