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单词 mow
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mow1

verbmowed, mown məʊmoʊ
[with object]
  • 1Cut down (grass) with a machine.

    用机器给(长草的地方)割(或刈)草

    Roger mowed the lawn

    罗杰给草坪刈草。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later that day I saw Kristen again while I was outside mowing the yard.
    • It was a hot day and the windows were open and the smell of newly mown grass wafted in from the playing fields.
    • They wake up to note their freshly mowed lawn grew back while they slept.
    • Is your course manicured with tightly mown fairways, fast, firm greens and deep greenside bunkers?
    • Was it possible that even the most enterprising farmer could be mowing his meadows in March?
    • As I walked up the freshly mowed lawn, I saw the usual sight.
    • Don't regularly mow the outer few feet of your lawn.
    • I have a back room that I'm now living out of and the grounds are nicely mowed and clipped.
    • The grass verges were neatly mowed and the signage was good.
    • The results showed that mowing at 0.125 inches regardless of the bentgrass variety produced weaker, stressed plants.
    • They did a wonderful job of keeping the greens neatly mowed and weeded.
    • When they did sit down to eat, they were surrounded by the smell of newly mown grass.
    • While we mowed the fairway, we'd make at least one pass around the green.
    • You also may want these firms to regularly mow and water your lawn.
    • Very princely of him to surprise her with a freshly mowed lawn.
    • The large park was neatly mown and the large trees provided a pleasant view from the road.
    • Is it newly mown grass, pies baking, or a favorite aunt's perfume?
    • I mowed my yard a few days ago and didn't wear a shirt.
    • Keep infants and young children away from newly mown grass.
    • She sat there and watched as the sun settled on her newly mowed grass.
    Synonyms
    cut, cut down, scythe, shear, trim
    1. 1.1historical Cut down (grass or a cereal crop) with a scythe.
      〈主史〉用镰刀割(草,谷类作物)
      they mowed green corn, to give the blades to horses
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We know of several people who mow lawns with a scythe.
      • In the mosque courtyard, workers mowed grass, raked out brush and freshened up old flower beds with new green plants.
      • The illustrations in such medieval prayer books represented the work of the season: here a peasant mows a meadow.
      • The scythe has been used since Roman times to mow hay.
      Synonyms
      cut, cut down, scythe, shear, trim

Phrasal Verbs

  • mow someone down

    • 1Kill someone with a fusillade of bullets or other missiles.

      (用枪等将人)撂倒;扫灭;残杀

      he was mown down in a hail of machine-gun bullets
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's about one of the prisoners who did escape as they were marched out there, blindfolded and put before mass graves, and they mowed them down and they buried them.
      • The peacekeepers rushed out of the shuttle onto the planet, weapons drawn and ready to mow down any hostiles.
      • They can't shoot at you so mowing them down is even easier.
      • Then he ‘bared himself to the enemy’ an advancing German combat group-and mowed them down with enfilade fire.
      • An army megaphone promises fair treatment for peaceful surrender; when the three comply, gunfire mows them down.
      • It is not surprising that they were mown down by machine-gun fire.
      • Multiple natives are mowed down by automatic gunfire.
      • There may have been a few more assassins along the way, but Chris was confident he could mow them down with ease.
      • But as the paratroopers entered the main gateway to the Temple they were mown down.
      • Convicted felons could be encouraged to run across a distance of, say, a hundred metres, while the marksmen took turns to mow them down.
      • The women turned to face the pit and the appellant mowed them down with the machine gun.
      • You can't just start mowing down civilians to stop a mob.
      • With incredible skill, she took aim again and again, firing at the attackers, mowing them down like a harbinger of death.
      • I screamed, firing back, emptying my weapon into the fleeing figures: mowing several down like scythed wheat.
      • On Friday, 20 guerrillas captured 8 policemen at a checkpoint near the city, took them to their offices, and mowed them down with gunfire.
      • Howling voices broke into the silence, and the Orcs swept across the land like a tornado, ready to mow down anything and everything that might stand in their way.
      • If I had to spend our time constantly comforting them, they would mow us down with machine guns before you could say Big Bertha.
      Synonyms
      kill, gun down, shoot down, cut down, cut to pieces, butcher, slaughter, massacre, decimate, annihilate, exterminate, liquidate, wipe out, destroy
      informal blow away
      North American informal smoke
      literary slay
      1. 1.1Recklessly knock down someone with a car or other vehicle.
        (用汽车等)撞倒
        a father-of-four was mown down and killed as he cycled home from work
        Example sentencesExamples
        • At the conclusion of the coming six-part series, he is mown down by a female motorist and dies.
        • A road accident victim has died two years after the tragedy that left him comatose - but the man convicted of mowing him down will escape the maximum possible sentence 10 years.
        • His 80-year-old mother-in-law suffered a broken leg when a speeding car mowed her down last year.
        • The road seemed clear when she crossed but suddenly a police van appeared, seemingly from nowhere, on the wrong side of the road and mowed her down.
        • I had to get away from the van that would mow me down in a second if I gave it the chance.
        • The temptation to mow them down with a car was just too great.
        • Two sons said yesterday they had forgiven the car thieves who killed their father by mowing him down on his garage forecourt.
        • A hero who attempted to stop a thief stealing laptops from a college was killed after the would-be robber mowed him down in a car.
        • Last August, Fletcher landed in intensive care after a car mowed him down while he was crossing a street in Carmel Valley, California.
        • And then, some drunk driver mowed him down on his skateboard last night.
        • Example: you've just jumped out of the way of a speeding car, seconds before it might have mowed you down.
        • If you're still on Birdcage Walk at 8am tomorrow morning, watch out for the rush hour traffic trying to mow you down.
        • The family of an interior designer mown down by a hit-and-run driver are urging witnesses to help police catch him.
        • The gates are now closed from 10.00 till 17.00 and 4-wheeled vehicles can no longer mow us down.
        • A father has described the horror of seeing his six-year-old boy mowed down by a hit-and-run driver.
        • The customer service worker said: ‘Not only could he have mown us down but he could have hurt other innocent victims as he drove like a maniac in the busy centre roads.’
        • Five other activists testified that the driver must have seen Corrie before mowing her down.

Origin

Old English māwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maaien, German mähen 'mow', also to mead2.

Rhymes

allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, endow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou

mow2

noun məʊmaʊ
North American dialect
  • 1A stack of hay, corn, or other crop.

    〈北美或方〉干草(或谷物)堆

    a hay mow
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The main theme of his article was about how hay knives were used to cut sections from the stack or mow.
    • And before night they'd finished threshing the whole mow of wheat.
    • Most often it was set up in a barn beside the mow of loose hay.
    1. 1.1 A place in a barn where a stack of hay, corn, etc. is put.
      (谷仓内)干草(或谷物等的)堆积处
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A small, freshly planked room below the straw mow was filled with oats, enough to last until next August.
      • If the moisture content of hay placed in the mow is below 26%, it is not likely that the temperature will rise beyond 65°C (150°F).
      • Here are the cats that live in the hay mow.
      • The brick, gambrel-roof barn features ground-floor pens for calves and plenty of space for hay storage in the mow.
      • By July 15th or 20th, the hay was all stowed away in the barn mows.
      • Seventy and more years ago, loose hay for feed and straw for bedding were lifted into the mows by a system of knives and pulleys.
      • The mow stores baled straw and hay for emergencies and provides insulation for the livestock area below.

Origin

Old English mūga; of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish and Norwegian muga 'heap'.

mow1

verbmoʊ
[with object]
  • 1Cut down (an area of grass) with a machine.

    用机器给(长草的地方)割(或刈)草

    Roger mowed the lawn

    罗杰给草坪刈草。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Was it possible that even the most enterprising farmer could be mowing his meadows in March?
    • As I walked up the freshly mowed lawn, I saw the usual sight.
    • When they did sit down to eat, they were surrounded by the smell of newly mown grass.
    • She sat there and watched as the sun settled on her newly mowed grass.
    • It was a hot day and the windows were open and the smell of newly mown grass wafted in from the playing fields.
    • While we mowed the fairway, we'd make at least one pass around the green.
    • You also may want these firms to regularly mow and water your lawn.
    • I have a back room that I'm now living out of and the grounds are nicely mowed and clipped.
    • They wake up to note their freshly mowed lawn grew back while they slept.
    • The grass verges were neatly mowed and the signage was good.
    • The results showed that mowing at 0.125 inches regardless of the bentgrass variety produced weaker, stressed plants.
    • Don't regularly mow the outer few feet of your lawn.
    • Very princely of him to surprise her with a freshly mowed lawn.
    • Is your course manicured with tightly mown fairways, fast, firm greens and deep greenside bunkers?
    • They did a wonderful job of keeping the greens neatly mowed and weeded.
    • I mowed my yard a few days ago and didn't wear a shirt.
    • Is it newly mown grass, pies baking, or a favorite aunt's perfume?
    • The large park was neatly mown and the large trees provided a pleasant view from the road.
    • Later that day I saw Kristen again while I was outside mowing the yard.
    • Keep infants and young children away from newly mown grass.
    Synonyms
    cut, cut down, scythe, shear, trim
    1. 1.1historical Cut down (grass or a cereal crop) with a scythe or a sickle.
      〈主史〉用镰刀割(草,谷类作物)
      they mowed green corn, to give the blades to horses
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The illustrations in such medieval prayer books represented the work of the season: here a peasant mows a meadow.
      • We know of several people who mow lawns with a scythe.
      • In the mosque courtyard, workers mowed grass, raked out brush and freshened up old flower beds with new green plants.
      • The scythe has been used since Roman times to mow hay.
      Synonyms
      cut, cut down, scythe, shear, trim

Phrasal Verbs

  • mow someone down

    • 1Kill someone with a fusillade of bullets or other missiles.

      (用枪等将人)撂倒;扫灭;残杀

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If I had to spend our time constantly comforting them, they would mow us down with machine guns before you could say Big Bertha.
      • The peacekeepers rushed out of the shuttle onto the planet, weapons drawn and ready to mow down any hostiles.
      • Multiple natives are mowed down by automatic gunfire.
      • Convicted felons could be encouraged to run across a distance of, say, a hundred metres, while the marksmen took turns to mow them down.
      • It is not surprising that they were mown down by machine-gun fire.
      • It's about one of the prisoners who did escape as they were marched out there, blindfolded and put before mass graves, and they mowed them down and they buried them.
      • Howling voices broke into the silence, and the Orcs swept across the land like a tornado, ready to mow down anything and everything that might stand in their way.
      • There may have been a few more assassins along the way, but Chris was confident he could mow them down with ease.
      • The women turned to face the pit and the appellant mowed them down with the machine gun.
      • Then he ‘bared himself to the enemy’ an advancing German combat group-and mowed them down with enfilade fire.
      • You can't just start mowing down civilians to stop a mob.
      • But as the paratroopers entered the main gateway to the Temple they were mown down.
      • I screamed, firing back, emptying my weapon into the fleeing figures: mowing several down like scythed wheat.
      • An army megaphone promises fair treatment for peaceful surrender; when the three comply, gunfire mows them down.
      • With incredible skill, she took aim again and again, firing at the attackers, mowing them down like a harbinger of death.
      • They can't shoot at you so mowing them down is even easier.
      • On Friday, 20 guerrillas captured 8 policemen at a checkpoint near the city, took them to their offices, and mowed them down with gunfire.
      Synonyms
      kill, gun down, shoot down, cut down, cut to pieces, butcher, slaughter, massacre, decimate, annihilate, exterminate, liquidate, wipe out, destroy
      1. 1.1Recklessly knock down someone with a car or other vehicle.
        (用汽车等)撞倒
        Example sentencesExamples
        • If you're still on Birdcage Walk at 8am tomorrow morning, watch out for the rush hour traffic trying to mow you down.
        • The family of an interior designer mown down by a hit-and-run driver are urging witnesses to help police catch him.
        • Five other activists testified that the driver must have seen Corrie before mowing her down.
        • At the conclusion of the coming six-part series, he is mown down by a female motorist and dies.
        • A father has described the horror of seeing his six-year-old boy mowed down by a hit-and-run driver.
        • Two sons said yesterday they had forgiven the car thieves who killed their father by mowing him down on his garage forecourt.
        • The road seemed clear when she crossed but suddenly a police van appeared, seemingly from nowhere, on the wrong side of the road and mowed her down.
        • Last August, Fletcher landed in intensive care after a car mowed him down while he was crossing a street in Carmel Valley, California.
        • A hero who attempted to stop a thief stealing laptops from a college was killed after the would-be robber mowed him down in a car.
        • And then, some drunk driver mowed him down on his skateboard last night.
        • Example: you've just jumped out of the way of a speeding car, seconds before it might have mowed you down.
        • The gates are now closed from 10.00 till 17.00 and 4-wheeled vehicles can no longer mow us down.
        • I had to get away from the van that would mow me down in a second if I gave it the chance.
        • A road accident victim has died two years after the tragedy that left him comatose - but the man convicted of mowing him down will escape the maximum possible sentence 10 years.
        • The customer service worker said: ‘Not only could he have mown us down but he could have hurt other innocent victims as he drove like a maniac in the busy centre roads.’
        • The temptation to mow them down with a car was just too great.
        • His 80-year-old mother-in-law suffered a broken leg when a speeding car mowed her down last year.

Origin

Old English māwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maaien, German mähen ‘mow’, also to mead.

mow2

nounmoumaʊ
North American dialect
  • 1often with modifier A stack of hay, grain, or other similar crop.

    〈北美或方〉干草(或谷物)堆

    a hay mow
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The main theme of his article was about how hay knives were used to cut sections from the stack or mow.
    • Most often it was set up in a barn beside the mow of loose hay.
    • And before night they'd finished threshing the whole mow of wheat.
    1. 1.1 A place in a barn where a stack of hay or grain is put.
      (谷仓内)干草(或谷物等的)堆积处
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here are the cats that live in the hay mow.
      • The brick, gambrel-roof barn features ground-floor pens for calves and plenty of space for hay storage in the mow.
      • If the moisture content of hay placed in the mow is below 26%, it is not likely that the temperature will rise beyond 65°C (150°F).
      • A small, freshly planked room below the straw mow was filled with oats, enough to last until next August.
      • By July 15th or 20th, the hay was all stowed away in the barn mows.
      • Seventy and more years ago, loose hay for feed and straw for bedding were lifted into the mows by a system of knives and pulleys.
      • The mow stores baled straw and hay for emergencies and provides insulation for the livestock area below.

Origin

Old English mūga; of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish and Norwegian muga ‘heap’.

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