(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.
Helm
Definition:
(n.) See Haulm, straw.
(n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.
(n.) The place or office of direction or administration.
(n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.
(n.) A helve.
(v. t.) To steer; to guide; to direct.
(n.) A helmet.
(n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
(v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(3) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(4) Hours later, Nixon called in his CIA chief, Richard Helms, and, according to Helms's handwritten notes, ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration.
(5) Furthermore, Representative Hogan and Senator Helms have entered into both houses a constitutional amendment designed to protect the fetus "from the moment of conception."
(6) Dominic Chappell’s Retail Acquisitions consortium, which was at the helm when BHS called in the administrators, received payments of at least £17m from the retailer in just 13 months, according to evidence seen by MPs.
(7) With him at the helm, Tesco not only risks missing out on female talent, it will also alienate customers.
(8) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
(9) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
(10) Now it appears to have been reactivated with Greengrass at the helm, just as the director's latest film, Captain Phillips , is due to premiere at the Toronto film festival.
(11) António Horta-Osório, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, has completed a "clean sweep" of the executive team he inherited when he took the helm in March.
(12) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(13) The change follows an approach by Sky News to Buckingham Palace last year and is something of a coup for the broadcaster, which will take the helm over a two-year period which will see two royal weddings, the diamond jubilee and the London Olympic Games.
(14) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
(15) The call to Andrew Bailey – who took the helm of the FCA in July after a long career at the Bank of England – is made in a report published on Tuesday which says there should be an overhaul of the way financial regulators are run.
(16) My miscommunication on a number of points has caused upset and offence, and for this I am sorry.” Roberts, who is from Lancashire, has been at Saatchi & Saatchi’s helm for 20 years and is also the company’s head coach, a mentoring role.
(17) (1986) observed no such effects using cell kinetic methods with 3H-thymidine instead of the stathmokinetic method applied by Tutton and Helme.
(18) Lille were a club whose glory days of the 1940s and 1950s seemed a distant memory but Puel transformed them into genuine title contenders in his six years at the helm, finishing as runners-up in 2004-05.
(19) As a former colleague, Sarah Helm, has recalled : “Johnson’s half-truths created a new reality … correspondents witnessed Johnson shaping the narrative that morphed into our present-day populist Euroscepticism.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Trump supporter at a campaign rally in Maryland in April.
(20) Although football's political structures showed faith in the man at the helm, there are questions whether the storm has yet abated.