Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Scatter seed broadly by hand.
Modern meaning
Transmit media widely.
Research lens
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Meaning trail
Root
scatter broadly
The body motion came first.
Older sense
sow seed
A farm term of distribution.
Now
transmit widely
Signals inherited the sowing metaphor.