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Meanings of plough in English
A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major.
Synonyms
Examples for "Big Dipper"
Examples for "Big Dipper"
1
He looked up and saw the Big Dipper, the Great Bear, Orion.
2
The Big Dipper is the one superstition that everyone can agree on.
3
The Big Dipper, Orion, a bunch of other constellations she couldn't name.
4
Why, nothing but the Big Dipper up there among the stars.
5
Minute after minute passed, but no light flashed out on the Big Dipper.
1
This star is the faintest of the seven which form the Dipper.
2
He looked up and saw the Big Dipper, the Great Bear, Orion.
3
Northern lights, pale and dim, stretched their arc across beneath the Dipper.
4
The Big Dipper is the one superstition that everyone can agree on.
5
For them this was all about payback for that night at Dipper's.
1
We name the same constellation diversely, as Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
2
One witness names the stars 'Great Bear'; one calls them ' Charles's Wain'; one calls them the 'Dipper.'
3
If I wish to ennoble the heavens by the constellations I see there, ' Charles's Wain' would be more true than 'Dipper.'
4
I turn away my head, and look out of the window up at Charles's Wain, and all my other bright old friends.
5
What did she care for the progress of the hours, since the constellation of Charles's Wain showed her that it was past midnight?
1
Mr. Wain suspended tapping operations, and resumed the thread of his discourse.
2
Mr. Wain took up a pen, and began to tap the table.
3
Richard Wain tracked David Kilgour down, and thought getting the artist… Audio
4
Rena, however, was serenely ignorant of any danger from the accommodating Wain.
5
So Mike edged out of the room, and tore across to Wain's.
1
Without a glance in the direction of the Candy Wagon they passed.
2
So, a service industry of food wagons developed to fill the need.
3
The wagon-covers became sticky in the sun, and rigid in the cold.
4
This young lady is unconscious; help me lift her into the wagon.
5
His head was in the clouds; the star was drawing his wagon.
Usage of plough in English
1
The wheel and the plough and the composite bread and cheese culture.
2
Only old men were left to plough the fields in the spring.
3
It comes as demolition crews continue to plough through the sprawling settlement.
4
The Oppenheimers will plough the proceeds into new Africa-focused investments outside diamonds.
5
The plough, the self-binder, the thresher were all invented on the farm.
6
This is land where planning permissions follow money like rooks the plough.
7
Melbourne-based Mayfair 101 plans to plough millions into the sleepy Queensland town.
8
Adone rose and put his hands on the handles of the plough.
9
Soon the spade, the plough, and the axe began their subduing work.
10
The figure of Cincinnatus at the plough appeals powerfully to American manhood.
11
Then, when they put in the plough, it stuck fast on them.
12
The glacier was like a gigantic plough driving irresistibly towards the sea.
13
The plough was of the old Roman model, with an iron point.
14
Another July plumed the maize, where the plough had obliterated Fort Byle.
15
The sword and the plough were friends which fraternised at every settler's.
16
The plough, under the hand of science, is become a new instrument.
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Plough through the time
Plough across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common