plow

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But I'd like far fewer people to plow ahead and implement their own broken stuff.

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Quick take

a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plow gathered in one view.

noun

a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

verb

to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

verb

act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plow.

noun

a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

verb

to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

verb

act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"

See also: cover, treat, handle, deal, address

verb

move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water"

Example sentences

But I'd like far fewer people to plow ahead and implement their own broken stuff.

" Thomas Paine"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.

Once I get working on something, I'll plow through it like a bullet through jelly.

I end up with an email folder full of those, and a couple weeks later manage to plow through them.

You need to keep any and all overhead low and plow as much as possible into development.

Horseless carriages are hardly going to plow a field?Content for readers was never the business they were in true.

I get the impression he didnt even recognize that the field he decided to plow was a minefield.

Hoping to launch another project like that in the near future and plow some of the profits back into AR - people are expensive.

In both games there's an easy and obvious way to get a bulletproof character: plow everything you have into vitality and endurance.

In order to get it done in a reasonable amount of time you can't spend all day optimizing or constructing beautiful algorithms - you have to plow through as quickly as possible.

I will own up to being wrong, I will turn that into a "teaching moment" for the audience, I will plow forward confident in the spirit of Kipling's "If" knowing that while I may have screwed up I did so in a good-faith effort at taking the lead and making things happen for an audience that chose to follow.