SOW  播種種

AGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to CAUSE PLANTS TO BEGIN to GROW..
PLANTSCATTERSPREADDISPERSESTREWDISSEMINATEDISTRIBUTEBROADCASTDRILLSEED
Hypernym
  • AGRICULTUREWORK IN FIELDS TO REAR USEFUL PLANTS. 
    • WORKMake an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY.
      • EFFORTDELIBERATE DILIGENT TRY:attempt to SUCCEED in an ACTION.
        • TRYACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING....
Hyponym
  • TO PLANT　SOW so as to PUT INTENSELY YOUNG PLANTS into the EARTH FOR:in order to CAUSE them to GROW.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    1. The current word for sowing is zhòng 種 (ant. shōu 收 "harvest").

    2. Bō 播 focusses on the spreading of seeds over a field.

    3. Jià 稼 (ant. sè 穡 "harvest") refers specifically to the sowing of grain.

    4. Shù 樹 is marginal in this group because the word refers generally to planting seedlings rather than sowing.

    5. Yì 藝 can occasionally be used to refer specifically to the planting of rice seedlings and the like.

    6. Zhí 殖 (ant. huò 獲 "harvest") includes the planting as well as the ensuing cultivation of domesticated plants.

    7. Zāi 栽 refers to placing of seedlings of any kind or provenance in the earth as part of agricultural cultivation, and the word first became current in Eastern Han times.

    8. Shí 蒔 refers to the replanting of seedlings from one cultivated patch to another.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    播種 is the current modern word for sowing seeds, and the word focusses on the spreading of the seed.

    下種 focusses on putting the seeds down.

    點種 is to dibble in seeds.

    點播 refers nominally to dibble-seeding.

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    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • SYNONYMES FRANÇOIS, LEURS DIFFÉRENTES SIGNIFICATIONS, ET LE CHOIX QU'IL EN FAUT FAIRE Pour parler avec justesse ( GIRARD 1769) p. 1.419; 1.377

      SEMER.ENSEMENCER

    • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 111 and 276

    Words

    樹  shù OC: djoʔ MC: dʑi̯o 19 AttributionsWD

    Shù 樹 is marginal in this group because the word refers generally to planting seedlings rather than sowing.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe plantingCH
    • vadNSHI 76: planted
    • viactplant trees
    • vtoNunmarked nominalisation: the planting of NCH
    • vtoNfigurativesow the seeds of (warfare etc)
    • vtoNobject=plantSHI 198: plant (trees)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2plant (something N1) (with N2, i.e.trees etc)
    • vttoN1.+prep+N2figurativeemplant N1 in N2
    種  zhòng OC: tjoŋs MC: tɕi̯oŋ 15 AttributionsWD

    The current word for sowing is zhòng 種 (ant. shōu 收 "harvest").

      Syntactic words
    • vido the sowing, sow the fields
    • vt(oN)figurativeplant the seeds of the contextually determinate N
    • vtoNto sow (seeds of a plant); to plant (a tree)
    • vtoNfigurativelay the foundations of, "plant"; BUDDH: plant the seeds of
    殖  zhí OC: djɯɡ MC: dʑɨk 11 AttributionsWD

    Zhí 殖 (ant. huò 獲 "harvest") includes the planting as well as the ensuing cultivation of domesticated plants.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactsowing, putting seed in the ground
    • viactto plant; to cultivate
    • vtoNsow, plant, cultivate
    • vtoNfigurative"plant"
    • vtoNpassivebe planted; be cultivated
    播  bō OC: paals MC: pʷɑ 4 AttributionsWD

    Bō 播 focusses on the spreading of seeds over a field.

      Syntactic words
    • viactsow seed
    • vtoNsow
    稼  jià OC: kraas MC: kɣɛ 3 AttributionsWD

    Jià 稼 (ant. sè 穡 "harvest") refers specifically to the sowing of grain.

      Word relations
    • Contrast: 耕/AGRICULTURE Gēng 耕 refers to any agricultural work involved in the growing of crops of any kind; however, the term also refers specifically to ploughing and thus turning over and loosening the ground for cultivation.

      Syntactic words
    • viactsow grain; to farm
    • vtoNsow grain
    蓺  yì OC: ŋeds MC: ŋiɛi 3 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • visow; plant (SHI)
    • vtoNsow; plant
    • vttoN1.+N2plant (some place N1) with (something N2)
    栽  zāi OC: skɯɯ MC: tsəi 2 AttributionsWD

    Zāi 栽 refers to placing of seedlings of any kind or provenance in the earth as part of agricultural cultivation, and the word first became current in Eastern Han times.

      Syntactic words
    • viplant
    • vtoNplant
    滋  zī OC: tsɯ MC: tsɨ 1 AttributionWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsow (flowers, orchids)
    藝  yì OC: ŋeds MC: ŋiɛi 1 AttributionWD

    Yì 藝 can occasionally be used to refer specifically to the planting of rice seedlings and the like.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNcultivate
    • vtoNactcultivate; sow grain
    植  zhí OC: djɯɡ MC: dʑɨk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNplant
    稙  zhì OC: tɯɡ MC: ʈɨk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNsow early ????
    蒔  shì OC: ɡljɯs MC: dʑɨ 0 AttributionsWD

    Shì 蒔 refers to the replanting of seedlings from one cultivated patch to another.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNreplant seedlings from one patch where they were reared in another where they are to grow for later harvesting

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