Sow vs. Wow: What's the Difference?
Sow and Wow Definitions
Sow
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
Wow
Used to express wonder, amazement, or great pleasure.
Sow
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
Wow
An outstanding success.
Sow
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
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Wow
Slow variation in the pitch of a sound reproduction resulting from variations in the speed of the recording or reproducing equipment.
Sow
To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.
Wow
To have a strong, usually pleasurable effect on
A performance that wowed the audience.
Sow
To scatter seed for growing.
Wow
An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.
Wow, I sure was surprised!
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Sow
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
Wow
An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration.
Wow! How do they do that?
Sow
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
Wow
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
Wow… good job using all of our supplies on the first day.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
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Wow
To amaze or awe.
He really wowed the audience.
Sow
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
Wow
(informal) Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
He did? That's a wow!
Sow
A female pig.
Wow
(audio) A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
Sow
A female bear, she-bear.
Wow
A joke that seems extremely funny
Sow
A female guinea pig.
Wow
Impress greatly;
The speaker wowed the audience
Sow
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
Sow
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
Sow
A contemptible, often fat woman.
Sow
A sowbug.
Sow
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
Sow
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Sow
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
Sow
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Sow
Obsolete spelling of sew
Sow
To sew. See Sew.
Sow
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
Sow
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
Sow
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
Sow
A sow bug.
Sow
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Sow
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
Sow
An adult female hog
Sow
Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
Sow
Introduce into an environment;
Sow suspicion or beliefs
Sow
Place seeds in or on (the ground);
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds
