(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.
Roundhouse
Definition:
(n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
(n.) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
(n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
(n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tickets for the Roundhouse shows are on sale from 12pm on Tuesday 3 June from ticketmaster.co.uk , with a maximum of four tickets per person allowed.
(2) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(3) There were other disappointments, such as the failure in the 1960s of his arts organisation Centre 42, planned to have a home in the Roundhouse, in north London.
(4) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
(5) I do everything live myself so maybe if I win it would be a consideration to get more artists onstage but I quite like pushing the concept of a one man band as far as I can.” The overall winner of the 2014 Prize will be announced at the Barclaycard Mercury prize awards show at the Roundhouse in London on Wednesday 29 October 2014.
(6) That went to the RSC for its ensemble cycle of Shakespeare's Histories directed by Michael Boyd and staged at the Roundhouse in north London.
(7) In his first five minutes he name-checked Picasso, quoted a poem by the Russian dissident Osip Mandelstam – not, he hoped, any relation of Lord Mandelson – and raved about both the play Jerusalem, and the anarchic cabaret La Clique, a show he saw at the Roundhouse.
(8) At least he is if by "heart of the action" what you actually mean is "sat underneath the Roundhouse in Camden watching the action unfold on a 46-inch Panasonic flatscreen TV".
(9) • Review: Lady Gaga at London's Roundhouse • More about Lady Gaga
(10) Flowers transferred to London, then New York, Australia, and back to London for a six-month run at the Roundhouse in repertory with Kemp's new work, a full-scale Salome.
(11) "I hid in my house," she explains matter-of-factly when I meet her before the opening night of the iTunes festival at the Roundhouse in north London.
(12) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(13) How they compare Eton Pupils 1,300 Motto Floreat Etona Location It graciously allows a Berkshire riverside town to share its premises Former students William Gladstone, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harold Macmillan, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Princes William and Harry And the ones who turned bad Guy Burgess, Darius Guppy, Lord Lucan Haverstock Pupils 1,250 Motto None Location Prime spot near Camden Market, the Roundhouse, and Hampstead Former students David and Ed Miliband, Oona King , Tom Bentley, Zoe Heller, Steve McFadden, John Barnes, Joe Cole, Tulisa and Dino Contostavlos from N-Dubz And the ones who turned bad John Duffy and David Mulcahy (the Railways Rapists)
(14) Best production: Michael Boyd's RSC eight-play Shakespeare History Cycle at Stratford's Courtyard and London's Roundhouse.
(15) Norman, a last-minute entrant in the five-man ballot to succeed John Whittingdale, is a director of the Hay Festival and a trustee of London performing arts space the Roundhouse, which was founded by his father.
(16) Even now, his schedule remains punishing: his production of Berlioz's Damnation Of Faust has just premiered in Paris, a work centring on Frida Kahlo should surface in Canada later this year, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel called Zulu Time will arrive at the Roundhouse early next year.
(17) With Camden Market, the Roundhouse and Hampstead on its doorstep, Haverstock's catchment area ticks many north London stereotypes: trendy, arty and liberal.
(18) Despite Lauren Laverne mistakenly introducing him on stage as James Blunt during a televised ceremony at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London, Blake beat stars including David Bowie to win the £20,000 prize for Overgrown, his second album.
(19) An equally monumental second album, Commune, is just out, plus they headline the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia tonight and play London’s 1,700-capacity Roundhouse on Friday.
(20) Bookies will be hoping for another surprise result following James Blake’s win last year.” The winner of the £20,000 prize, which in recent times has gone to Alt-j, PJ Harvey and the xx, will be announced live tonight (29 October 2014) at the Roundhouse in London.