What's the difference between bow and painter?

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.

Painter


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
  • (n.) The panther, or puma.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to paint
  • (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
  • (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
  • (2) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
  • (3) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (5) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
  • (6) Closing volume in relation to vital capacity (CV%) was increased in car painters, suggestive of a "small airways disease" on Monday before work and tended to increase during a work week.
  • (7) Statistically significant increases were detected in the elution rates of male smoking automobile mechanics and male smoking painters compared to non-smoking controls.
  • (8) Dr Atl is better known for his work as a landscape painter who portrayed the horizons of the valley of Mexico.
  • (9) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
  • (10) That in turn helps to bring an income stream to creative artists, painters and many others.” At the event, Corbyn also vowed to defend the BBC , suggesting it could be lost, and UK broadcasting could end up commercialised like in the US, due to cuts made by the Conservative government.
  • (11) Thoma, who was born in the Black Forest in southern Germany in 1839 and died in 1924, started out as a painter of clock faces and built a reputation for his depictions of rural life.
  • (12) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (13) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
  • (14) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
  • (15) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
  • (16) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
  • (17) Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) is recognized as one of the most famous Norwegian painters of his time.
  • (18) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
  • (19) The son of an architect and older brother of broadcaster Clement Freud, the painter was married to Kathleen Garman for four years.
  • (20) "I saw Picasso, Matisse, but Paul Klee was the big influence," he told me, "because he was so steeped in Indian philosophy he had made himself almost an Indian painter."

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