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Definition of Bow

Bow To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. To bend; to curve. To stop. To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down. To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow. An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility. Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled. An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string. The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke. An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument. An arcograph. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters. A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea. Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree. To play (music) with a bow. To manage the bow. The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow. One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar. Related Definitions: Altitude, An, And, Any, Anything, Appliance, Arched, Arcograph, Arranging, Arrow, As, Assent, At, Bend, Bending, Bent, Boat, Body, Bow, Bowing, By, Cause, Condescension, Connected, Connecting, Consisting, Controlling, Cord, Crooked, Crush, Curve, Curved, Deep, Depress, Deviate, Doubling, Down, Drill, Elastic, Employed, End, Exercise, Express, For, Form, Formed, Formerly, Forward, From, Fur, Giving, Gratitude, Hair, Head, Homage, Horse, Humility, In, Incline, Inflect, Influence, Instrument, Is, It, Knee, Knot, Made, Make, Manage, Material, Motion, Music, Neck, Number, Oar, Obeisance, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Ornamental, Other, Over, Ox, Part, Piece, Play, Playing, Powerful, Preparing, Projecting, Propelled, Prostrate, Prow, Quadrant, Rainbow, Reciprocating, Respect, Reverence, Ribbon, Rod, Rounded, Rude, Saddletree, Salutation, Sea, Ship, Sort, Stop, Straightness, Stream, Stretched, String, Stringed, Strip, Subdue, Submission, Sun, Taking, Thanks, The, To, Token, Turn, Two, U-Shaped, Used, Weapon, Which, Who, With, Wood, Yoke

Bow Quotations I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Kahlil Gibran I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. Thomas Jefferson Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Kahlil Gibran We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. Simone Weil Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. Bill Gates

Bow Translations bow in Danish is bue, bov bow in Dutch is boog, toog bow in Finnish is kaari bow in French is arc bow in German is Bogen bow in Italian is prua, arco bow in Latin is inflecto inflexi inflectum bow in Portuguese is curva, proa bow in Spanish is inclinarse

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