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Bow   /baʊ/  /boʊ/   Listen
Bow

noun
1.
A knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces.  Synonym: bowknot.
2.
A slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments.
3.
Front part of a vessel or aircraft.  Synonyms: fore, prow, stem.
4.
A weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow.
5.
Something curved in shape.  Synonym: arc.
6.
Bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting.  Synonyms: bowing, obeisance.
7.
An appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience.  Synonym: curtain call.
8.
A decorative interlacing of ribbons.
9.
A stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments.
verb
(past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)
1.
Bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head.  Synonym: bow down.  "She bowed her head in shame"
2.
Yield to another's wish or opinion.  Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit.
3.
Bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting.
4.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
5.
Play on a string instrument with a bow.



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"Bow" Quotes from Famous Books



... following close upon some such enthusiastic moment that Max rose, crossed the room, and taking a violin and bow from where they lay upon a wooden bench against the wall, carried them silently ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... broken; it bursts forth in the banners thick as the gorgeous leaves of the October forests that have blossomed all over eighteen or twenty States; it shows itself in the passion of the noble Union men of the South who will not bow to Baal; it floats on every frigate that rides the sea to protect our shipping; it leaps forth and brightens in the sacred steel which patriots by the hundred thousand are dedicating, not to ravage, not to murder, ...
— Starr King in California • William Day Simonds
... Bow's office of Cotton Loan Agent has been taken away from him for alleged irregularities, the nature of which is not clearly stated by the new Secretary of the Treasury, who announces his removal to the Secretary ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... in design was unescapably revealed. A man, save he be fat, i.e., of womanish contours, usually looks better in uniform than in mufti; the tight lines set off his figure. But a woman is at once given away: she look like a dumbbell run over by an express train. Below the neck by the bow and below the waist astern there are two masses that simply refuse to fit into a balanced composition. Viewed from the side, she presents an exaggerated S bisected by an imperfect straight line, and so she ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken
... my best, sir," said Mr. Thwaite, making his bow. Thomas Thwaite, as he went along the streets alone, determined that he would perform this new duty imposed upon him without ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope


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