(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.
Bowyer
Definition:
(n.) An archer; one who uses bow.
(n.) One who makes or sells bows.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2004, Adrian Bowyer invented a machine that could print around 50% of its own parts, and in 2008 it successfully managed to print itself.
(2) 2) Relative distances of the individual redox active centers to the P-side and N-side surfaces of the reconstituted Complex III proteoliposome were measured by our paramagnetic probe method (Blum, H., Bowyer, J. R., Cusanovich, M. A., Waring, A. J., and Ohnishi, T. (1983) Biochim.
(3) Szczensy would have been sent off in the second minute for bringing down Lee Bowyer, following a pass from Zigic, had it not been for the mistake by the assistant referee Ron Garfield in raising the flag for offside.
(4) That recent indifferent run has now seen them win just once in the last eight but Bowyer believes with the correct application, the play-offs are still achievable.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Unite union representative Dave Bowyer outside the Docks Cafe.
(6) But after scoring 20 goals in 39 Championship appearances as Gary Bowyer’s side finished ninth, the Benin international has his heart set on leaving Ewood Park and is understood to want to join Quique Flores’s newly-promoted side despite interest from Norwich City.
(7) After the trial of the Leeds United footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate the spotlight has been on the public behaviour of footballers, particularly once they have drunk alcohol, and the game has been marred by a series of embarrassing incidents.
(8) "Bowyer was aggrieved because he would be blasted for a challenge like that," McLeish said.
(9) Blackburn 2-1 Leeds Gary Bowyer was delighted with his Blackburn side’s “best win of the season” as they recovered from a goal down and a man down to win.
(10) "In our last game against Arsenal he was banned for a stamp on Bacary Sagna and there were headlines saying that Bowyer was a naughty boy.
(11) "We were on the receiving end of it tonight," said Blackburn's manager Gary Bowyer.
(12) Bowyer was found not guilty of the attack but the court heard that the footballers had drunk large amounts of alcohol.
(13) Dave Bowyer, a 40-year veteran of the plant and member of trade union Unite’s executive council, said: “Central government … has been very weak.
(14) Susannah Bowyer, research and development manager, Research in Practice : “Staff across all services need support to build knowledge and skills in key areas – such as recognition of neglect and assessing parents’ capacity to change.
(15) They are divided into 4 groups according to the classification of Shinebourne, Anderson and Bowyer.
(16) Processing of the D1 precursor has been recently postulated to play a regulatory role in the light-dependent migration of photosystem II units from the unstacked to the stacked thylakoids (Bowyer, J. M., Packer, J. C. L., McCormack, B.
(17) It is for this reason that Bowyer decided to make his designs open source (so anyone can access them), and subsequently build their own printer, using materials costing around £250.
(18) Szczesny might have been sent off in the second minute for a foul inside the penalty area on Lee Bowyer only for play to be pulled back for an erroneous offside flag.
(19) Koscielny was perhaps also fortunate to escape with yellow for an ugly lunge at Bowyer.
(20) Vik Olliver, a long-time collaborator with Bath University's Adrian Bowyer on the RepRap project and seller of 3D printer consumables , points to another elusive goal: as a self-replicating machine, the RepRap was envisaged as colonising to the developing world, where it would be used to make the consumer goods that sustain modern life but which are often inaccessible to poor communities.