(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.
Rainbow
Definition:
(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It felt like my very existence was being denied,” said Hahn Chae-yoon, executive director of Beyond the Rainbow Foundation.
(2) In the saccus dorsalis of the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, the activity of various enzymes (transferase, lyases, oxidoreductases, hydrolases) have been studied in detail.
(3) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(4) In the retina of the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) two types of microtubular structures are demonstrated.
(5) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(6) As the Democrats have often found in the US, when they have tried to construct rainbow coalitions out of class- and colour-defined blocs of the population, groups that can be counted on wholesale in theory often splinter into individuals that it may not be possible to count on at all.
(7) The excretion routes and tissue distribution of [3H]pristane were measured in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, after a single intragastric dose (0.1 mg).
(8) After 36% of hepatic mass removal , rainbow trout recovered its initial liver weight in 20-30 days, i.e., with a regeneration rate clearly lower than in mammals.
(9) Rainbow trout were infused continuously for 24 h with epinephrine in order to elevate circulating levels to those measured during periods of acute extracellular acidosis (about 5 X 10(-8) mol l-1).
(10) Various compounds, with known clinical efficacy against human viruses, were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the growth of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV, a rhabdovirus), and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV, a birnavirus), in rainbow trout cell cultures.
(11) In the rainbow trout hepatoma cell line, ZnCl2 was a better inducer of the MT-B gene, as compared to CdCl2 and CuCl2.
(12) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
(13) Rainbow trout brain extracts contained CCK-li that co-eluted with CCK-8 in gel permeation chromatography whereas CCK-li extracted from the various gut regions exhibited marked molecular heterogeneity.
(14) Another free school, Rainbow Primary in Bradford, opened despite the local authority telling the government that "these additional primary places are not required, especially in light of … plans to expand a number of existing primary schools and the expansion of some existing academies to all-through schools".
(15) Transgenic rainbow trout (RT) were generated in earlier experiments by an in vivo modification of the chromosome-mediated gene transfer technique.
(16) However, reproducing populations of the most sensitive species, rainbow trout, have been observed in surface waters in these regions, indicating no cause for concern.
(17) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
(18) In the rainbow trout intestine, where SP-like material may be released from both nerve fibres and endocrine cells, it is indicated that the contractile effect is in part direct upon the smooth muscle and in part via stimulation of cholinergic and serotonergic neurons.
(19) Rainbow trout are known to be more susceptible to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) hepatocarcinogenesis than coho salmon, or trout pre-fed the carcinogenesis inhibitors beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF), Aroclor 1254 or indole-3-carbinol.
(20) By employing rainbow trout growth hormone cDNA as a probe, the coho salmon cDNA was isolated and the complete nucleotide (nt) sequence determined.