| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb furrow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (furrow) | 1. Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil".[Wordnet]. 2. Make wrinkled or creased; "furrow one's brow".[Wordnet]. 3. Cut a furrow into a columns.[Wordnet]. 4. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.[Websters]. 5. To mark with channels or with wrinkles.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: furrowing, furrowed, furrows, furrower, furrowers, furrowingly and furrowedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FURROWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1503. (references) |
Specialty Definition: furrow
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A trench in the earth made by a plow.. | 2: [Noun] A long narrow trench or channel in wood or metal; a groove.. | 3: [Noun] A hollow made by wrinkles in the face.. | 4: [Verb] To cut a furrow; to make furrows in; to plow.. | 5: [Verb] To make long narrow channels or grooves in.. | 6: [Verb] To cut; to make channels in; to plow; as, to furrow the deep.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | 1: A long, narrow, shallow trench made in the ground by a plow for planting and irrigation. (references) | 2: A natural or man-made narrow depression in the earth's surface. A narrow trenchlike plowed depression in the earth surface to keep surface water away from the slopes of cuts. (references) | |
| Bible | Furrow an opening in the ground made by the plough (Ps. 65:10; Hos. 10:4, 10). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Food & Agriculture | Narrow ditches made by cultivation implements between rows of crops. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: A fissure which penetrates into a continental or insular shelf in a direction more or less perpendicular to the coast line. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Furrow is geographically located in Ireland. Its features include a locality (a minor area or place of unspecified or mixed character and indefinite boundaries). Its geographic coordinates are 52.279444 degrees North latitude and 8.188056 degrees West longitude. (references) | 3: Furrow is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include an intermittent stream. Its geographic coordinates are 28.783333 degrees South latitude and 29.616667 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Mining | See tillage, furrow; irrigation, furrow. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A deep line in the skin of the face, especially on someone's forehead. When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead. (references) | 2: [Noun] A line cut in the soil, especially when plowed in order to plant a crop. Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field. (references) | 3: [Verb] (About someone's brows or eyebrows) to pull them together due to worry, concentration, etc. Leave me alone so I can furrow my brows and concentrate. (references) | 4: [Verb] To make a cut in the ground. Cart wheels can furrow roads. (references) |
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Common Expressions: furrow
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cleavage furrow | In cell biology, the cleavage furrow is the indentation that begins the process of cleavage, by which animal cells undergo cytokinesis. The same proteins responsible for muscle contraction, actin and mysin, begin the process of forming the cleavage furrow. Plant cells do not form a cleavage furrow. Instead, plant cells begin cytokinesis with the formation of a cell plate. (references) | ||
| Cross furrow | A furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Peppery furrow shell | The Peppery furrow shell Scrobicularia plana is the only species currently recognized by ITIS in the genus Scrobicularia; however some sources recognise other species such as Scrobicularia cottardi. It is a bivalve mollusc commonly found on sandy or muddy sea coasts and estuaries in northern Europe, the Mediterranean and West Africa. They may be found at quite high densities. (references) | ||
| Ridge and furrow | The term ridge and furrow is often used by archaeologists and others to describe the uniquely British pattern of peaks and troughs created in a field and caused by the system of ploughing used during the Middle Ages. Early examples date to the immediate post-Roman period and the method survived until the seventeenth century in some areas. (references) | ||
| Rig and furrow | Rig and furrow was a type of cultivation practised in upland areas of the British Isles which differs slightly from the more common ridge and furrow in that it appears to have been created through excavation by spade rather than plough. (references) | ||
| To draw a straight furrow | To live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. --Lowell. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Water furrow | A deep furrow for conducting water from the ground, and keeping the surface soil dry. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: furrow
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cleavage furrow | Geology | A furrow which forms on an animal cell, indicating imminent cell division into two daughter cells, especially during the first few cellular divisions of a newly-fertilized animal zygote. (references) | |
| Furrow Dams | Administration | Small earth ridges or rows used to impound water in furrows. (references) | |
| Furrow diking | Environment | Water-saving agricultural irrigation practice in which a long, narrow groove or trench is made in the earth by a plow. The dike is usually placed at one end of the field to collect runoff. (Kromm, D. E., and S. E. White. 1990. Adoption of water-saving practices by irrigators in the High Plains. Water Resources Bulletin 26(6):999-1012.). (references) | |
| Furrow Irrigation | Administration | Spreading water by directing it into small channels across the field. Also referred to as Corrugation Irrigation. (references) | |
| Furrow irrigation | Aerospace | See irrigation methods. (references) | |
| Furrow irrigation | Agriculture | Small, shallow channels guide water across the surface of a leveled field. Crops are typically grown on a ridge or raised bed between the furrows. This is the major irrigation system that is based on gravity. (references) | |
| Furrow Irrigation | Environment | Irrigation method in which water travels through the field by means of small channels between each groups of rows. (references) | |
| Furrow irrigation | Geology | A type of surface irrigation where water is applied at the upper end of a field and flows in furrows to the lower end. (references) | |
| Furrow mulching | Mining | See erosion, furrow mulching. (references) | |
| Furrow Stream | Administration | The size of water flow released into the furrow; the size of the stream is adjusted to prevent erosion, limited in amount to the capacity of the furrow, and as needed for the intake rates of the soil involved. (references) | |
| Open furrow | Building & Civil Engineering | A double furrow left in the middle of the field or between two lands in plowing. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: furrow | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Ridge and furrow | 9 | Cleavage furrow | 3 | |
| Peppery furrow shell | 6 | Peppery furrow shell | 6 | |
| Rig and furrow | 4 | Ridge and furrow | 9 | |
| The Furrow | 3 | Rig and furrow | 4 | |
| Cleavage furrow | 3 | The Furrow | 3 | |
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