What's the difference between arrow and bow?

Arrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
  • (3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
  • (4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
  • (5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
  • (6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
  • (7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
  • (8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
  • (9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
  • (10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
  • (11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
  • (12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
  • (13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
  • (14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
  • (15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
  • (16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
  • (17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
  • (18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
  • (19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
  • (20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.

Bow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
  • (v. t.) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
  • (v. t.) To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
  • (v. t.) To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
  • (v. t.) To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
  • (v. i.) To bend; to curve.
  • (v. i.) To stop.
  • (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
  • (v. i.) To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
  • (v. t.) The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) An arcograph.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
  • (sing. or pl.) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
  • (v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
  • (v. i. ) To manage the bow.
  • (n.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
  • (n.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (2) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (3) We have urged the government not to bow to the pressure of the opposition against this law.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
  • (5) We see central bank leaders seemingly bowing to political pressures .
  • (6) The tangential force caused massive swelling and one week later bowing of the forearm was noticed.
  • (7) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
  • (8) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
  • (9) A case of acute plastic bowing fractures of both the fibula and tibia in a child is presented.
  • (10) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
  • (11) At 12, Focus E15 were served with a notice to appear in Bow magistrates court at 2pm.
  • (12) Labour's Michael Dugher said he welcomed the prime minister "bowing down to public pressure".
  • (13) We report four patients with unilateral bowing of the lower leg, affecting only the fibula.
  • (14) Isolated bowing of the ulna is rare, yet its occurrence, particularly in conjunction with congenital dislocation of the radial head, has been documented.
  • (15) Tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), when isolated from human colon fibroblast (hcf) cells, is N-glycosylated differently than when isolated from the Bowes melanoma (m) cell line (Parekh et al., 1988).
  • (16) President Obama's speech on Thursday seemed to put a neat bow on the past four years.
  • (17) Before negotiations have even started, the proposed trade deal between the EU and United States has been heralded as a game-changer: an unprecedented stimulus package for the European economy, a shot across the bow for British Eurosceptics and a chance for Europe and the US to set the standard for global trade before China beats us to it.
  • (18) Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows at the Tyndall centre for climate change research at Manchester University say global carbon emissions are rising so fast that they would need to peak by 2015 and then decrease by up to 6.5% each year for atmospheric CO2 levels to stabilise at 450ppm, which might limit temperature rise to 2C.
  • (19) On Saturday the president said he had no intention of bowing to critics' calls for him to step down.
  • (20) The present study was undertaken for the purpose of detecting the influence on upper first molars by the dynamic behavior originated in face-bow construction.

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