📖 S — The English dictionary · page 74

sow — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb, rhymes with go) To plant seeds in the ground.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To cause something to start or spread: sow doubt.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, rhymes with cow) An adult female pig.↗ Example: We sowed sunflower seeds in pots.↗ · Farmers sow wheat in autumn.↗ · The sow had ten piglets.↗ · Sow the seeds 2 cm apart.↗ · His lies sowed doubt in our minds.↗ · You reap what you sow.↗ · "Who sowed this sort of corn?"↗ · Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.↗ (Torah GEN.47.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; (Torah EXO.23.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.↗ (Torah GEN.26.12, JPS 1917)↗ · They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.↗ (Writings PSA.126.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.↗ (Writings PSA.107.37, JPS 1917)↗ · According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.↗ (Writings JOB.4.8, JPS 1917)↗

sowest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «sowest» means «you sow», a form of «sow»: (verb, rhymes with go) To plant seeds in the ground.↗ Example: and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.↗ (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917)

sown — Everyday, meaning 1: Sown is the past participle of sow: planted as seeds.↗ The farmer has sown wheat in the field.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Sown with» means spread with something, like a field sown with seeds.↗ Example: The field was sown with 50 kg of seed.↗ · 3 acres have been sown.↗ · How many rows are sown?↗ · Each acre sown needs 2 bags of seed.↗ · The beans were sown in neat rows.↗ · Once the seeds are sown, water them gently.↗ · The farmer had sown corn in the big field.↗ · SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.↗ · And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.↗ (Torah LEV.11.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard.↗ (Torah DEU.22.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.↗ (Torah DEU.21.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.↗ (Writings PSA.97.11, JPS 1917)↗ · For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown; (Prophets EZK.36.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; (Prophets JDG.6.3, JPS 1917)↗

soy — Everyday, meaning 1: Soya beans, the seeds of a plant from East Asia that are rich in protein, used to make many foods.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Soy sauce, a dark salty sauce made from fermented soya beans, used in Chinese, Japanese and other cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Made from soya: soy milk, soy yoghurt.↗ Example: Can I have soy sauce with my sushi?↗ · My cousin drinks soy milk because she can't have cow's milk.↗ · Tofu is made from soy.↗ · Soy is listed as an allergen on the label.↗ · Most soya is fed to farm animals.↗ · Dad marinated the chicken in soy and honey.↗

spa — Everyday, meaning 1: A place with natural mineral water springs, where people go to drink or bathe in the water to feel healthier.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A town that grew up around such springs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A place where people go to relax and have treatments such as massages, saunas and pools.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (US, Australia, NZ) A hot tub, a small heated pool with bubbling water.↗ Example: Bath is a famous spa town with hot springs.↗ · Mum went to a spa for her birthday treat.↗ · The hotel has a pool and a spa.↗ · We sat in the spa in the backyard after swimming.↗ · People once travelled to spas to drink the mineral water.↗ · The spa offers massages and face masks.↗ · Never stay in a hot spa for too long, or you may feel faint.↗

space — Everyday, meaning 1: The area beyond the Earth's air where the planets and stars are.↗ e.g. "outer space".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An empty area.↗ e.g. "a parking space", "space to play".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Room, amount of area available.↗ e.g. "There's no space."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The gap between words or things.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A period of time.↗ e.g. "in the space of an hour".↗ Everyday, meaning 6: As a verb, to put things with gaps between them.↗ Example: Astronauts travel into space.↗ · There is no air in space.↗ · Leave a space between words.↗ · Is there space for one more?↗ · Respect people's personal space.↗ · Space the plants ten centimetres apart.↗ · The International Space Station goes around the Earth.↗ · Find a space and sit down.↗ · He longed to soar through space.↗ · And Laban said to him: 'Surely thou art my bone and my flesh.'↗ And he abode with him the space of a month.↗ (Torah GEN.29.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.'↗ (Torah GEN.32.16, JPS 1917)↗ · 15) According to the author, the space and six dimensions emanated from the ether.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · He stretcheth out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth over nothing.↗ (Writings JOB.26.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them.↗ (Prophets 1SA.26.13, JPS 1917)↗ · to the space above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and on all the wall round about within and without, by measure.↗ (Prophets EZK.41.17, JPS 1917)↗

spacecraft — Everyday, meaning 1: A spacecraft is a vehicle built to travel in space, with or without people on board, such as a rocket capsule, a space probe, a satellite or a space station.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Spacecraft can carry astronauts, explore other planets or orbit the Earth to send back pictures and signals.↗ Example: The spacecraft blasted off from the launch pad.↗ · A robot spacecraft landed on Mars.↗ · The astronauts lived on the spacecraft for six months.↗ · Voyager is a spacecraft that has left our Solar System.↗ · Satellites are spacecraft that orbit the Earth.↗ · Two spacecraft docked with the space station.↗ · The spacecraft sent back photos of Jupiter.↗

spaceship — Everyday, meaning 1: A vehicle that can travel in space, especially one with people inside.↗ Example: The astronauts climbed into the spaceship.↗ · We built a spaceship out of cardboard boxes.↗ · In the story, an alien spaceship landed in the park.↗ · A spaceship needs huge rockets to leave Earth.↗ · The spaceship orbited the Moon.↗ · Draw your own spaceship and label its parts.↗

spacesuit — Everyday, meaning 1: A special suit an astronaut wears in space; it gives air to breathe, keeps the right pressure and temperature, and protects from harmful rays.↗ Example: The astronaut put on her spacesuit for the spacewalk.↗ · A spacesuit gives astronauts oxygen to breathe.↗ · My costume is a silver spacesuit.↗ · Spacesuits are very heavy on Earth.↗ · The spacesuit protects from the Sun's rays.↗ · It takes hours to put on a spacesuit.↗

spacious — Everyday, meaning 1: A spacious room, house or car has a lot of space inside it; it is big and roomy.↗ Example: Our new classroom is bright and spacious.↗ · The car is spacious enough for five people.↗ · They live in a spacious flat by the sea.↗ · A room 6 m by 5 m has 30 square metres, so it is quite spacious.↗ · The hotel had spacious rooms with big windows.↗ · The tent was more spacious than we expected.↗ · Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden.↗ · That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.↗ (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917)↗

spade — Everyday, meaning 1: A spade is a garden tool with a long handle and a flat metal blade, used for digging.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A spade is a small plastic tool for digging in sand at the beach.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Spades are one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards, shown by a black ♠ shape.↗ Example: Dad dug a hole with the spade to plant the tree.↗ · I took my bucket and spade to the beach.↗ · The ace of spades is a black card.↗ · Clean the spade after you use it.↗ · We used a spade to dig up potatoes.↗ · She likes to call a spade a spade and say what she thinks.↗ · There are 13 spades in a pack of cards.↗ · The spade struck against a hard substance; it was a stone, that shone dazzling white.↗

spaghetti — Everyday, meaning 1: Spaghetti is a kind of pasta made in long, thin strings, which is boiled and eaten with a sauce.↗ Example: We had spaghetti for dinner.↗ · I twirl spaghetti round my fork.↗ · Spaghetti comes from Italy.↗ · Dry spaghetti snaps easily.↗ · We built a bridge from spaghetti and marshmallows.↗ · Spaghetti bolognese is my favourite.↗ · The wires were tangled like spaghetti.↗

spake — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Said words aloud, in the past.↗ Example: Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:--↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And she spake to her and said:↗ (The Pink Fairy Book) · Thus spake the old man, and straightway disappeared.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore)

spam — Everyday, meaning 1: Spam is unwanted messages sent to many people at once, usually emails or texts trying to sell something or trick you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To spam means to send lots of unwanted messages, or to post the same thing again and again.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Spam is a brand of tinned cooked pork meat.↗ Example: My email filter sent the message to the spam folder.↗ · Never click links in spam.↗ · Stop spamming the chat with emojis!↗ · He kept spamming the same attack in the game.↗ · The spam said I had won a prize, but it was a trick.↗ · Grandad remembers eating Spam sandwiches.↗ · Report the account if it sends spam.↗

span — Everyday, meaning 1: A span is the length of time something lasts: a life span, an attention span.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A span is the distance from one end of something to the other: the span of a bridge, a bird's wingspan.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To span something is to stretch across it or last over it: the bridge spans the river.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A hand span is the distance from the tip of your thumb to the tip of your little finger when your hand is spread out.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Span new is an old way of saying brand new, as if something has never been used.↗ Example: An albatross has the biggest wingspan of any bird.↗ · Measure your hand span with a ruler.↗ · A mayfly's life span is only a day or two.↗ · The bridge spans the whole river.↗ · Small children have a short attention span.↗ · The story spans three generations of a family.↗ · After tidying, my room was spick and span.↗ · So now, here's the play, brin-bran-span new!↗ · Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · It was four-square; they made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double.↗ (Torah EXO.39.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.12, JPS 1917)↗

spang — Everyday, meaning 1: Spang means exactly, right on, or directly: it landed spang on my head.↗ Example: The stone fell spang on the roof.↗ · The ball hit me spang in the middle of the back.↗ · He landed spang in the pond.↗

spangled — Everyday, meaning 1: Spangled means covered with small, shiny bits, like sparkling spots or stars.↗ Example: The dress was spangled with silver stars.↗ · The leaves glittered, diamond-spangled in the sun.↗ · The night sky was spangled with stars.↗

spaniard — Everyday, meaning 1: A person from Spain.↗ Example: My football coach is a Spaniard from Valencia.↗ · Rafael Nadal is a famous Spaniard who plays tennis.↗ · The Spaniards built forts across Central and South America.↗ · Two Spaniards and a Portuguese sailor joined the crew.↗ · Many Spaniards eat dinner late in the evening.↗ · The Spaniard on our team scored two goals.↗ · "It might be an Italian or a Spaniard," remarked the clergyman.↗

spaniel — Everyday, meaning 1: A dog with long soft ears that hang down and a silky coat; breeds include the cocker spaniel, springer spaniel and King Charles spaniel.↗ Example: Our spaniel loves running through puddles.↗ · The cocker spaniel has long floppy ears.↗ · A springer spaniel helps the police find lost things.↗ · King Charles spaniels are small and gentle.↗ · The spaniel wagged its whole body when we came home.↗ · Spaniels need lots of walks.↗ · He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel, with silken ears and curly hair.↗