name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
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noun
Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
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verb
To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To wrinkle.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: frown
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verb
to become furrowed
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: trench
Narrower terms: cut, gash
noun
a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrinkle, crease, crinkle, seam, line
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
Narrower terms: crow's foot, crow's feet, laugh line, dermatoglyphic, frown line, line of life, life line, lifeline, line of heart, heart line, love line, mensal line, line of fate, line of destiny, line of Saturn
verb
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rut, groove
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dig, delve, cut into, turn over
verb
cut a furrow into a columns
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chamfer, chase
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cut
verb
make wrinkled or creased
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wrinkle, crease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fold, fold up, turn up
History
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Across languages
193 source translations are retained for this English entry.