What's the difference between bower and dower?

Bower


Definition:

  • (v. & n.) One who bows or bends.
  • (v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
  • (v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
  • (n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
  • (n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
  • (n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
  • (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
  • (v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
  • (v. i.) To lodge.
  • (n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
  • (2) The first experiment replicates the main finding of Gluck and Bower.
  • (3) Photograph: Mike Bowers 5.48am BST National leader Warren Truss would like to know if the Prime Minister will apologise for banning live exports when she's in Jakarta.
  • (4) Chris Bowen gets 94A-ed and yells over the dispatch box during question time in the House of Representatives this afternoon Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers Bowen's ejection has prompted the MPI, the post QT debate, to be cancelled.
  • (5) Not only did the Guardian's stories eventually prove correct, but Jefferson's boss, Cynthia Bower, announced her departure a few months later.
  • (6) Mike Bowers (@mpbowers) Director-General of Security David Irvine and Att.
  • (7) The website’s photographer, Mike Bowers, applied for a visa to visit the island in November and on Tuesday was reportedly sent an email from the director of Nauru’s government information office, Joanna Olsson.
  • (8) In February the CQC's chief executive, Cynthia Bower, announced that she would step down later this year after weeks of criticism.
  • (9) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
  • (10) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
  • (11) Mike Bowers has wandered down the front to capture a bunch of anti-coal seam gas protesters blocking the entrance of the people's house.
  • (12) In contrast to various kinds of elastases that are known to produce emphysematous changes in animals, the elastolytic activity of carrageenan solution did not show any such effects, although in the homogenate of the lobes given carrageenan, a moderate but significant increase in the proteinase activities of alveolar macrophages are said to occur (Bowers et al.
  • (13) Malcolm Bower Gunnislake, Cornwall • It is crazy to have school students reluctant to take language A-levels for fear of low grades and no university place, while university language departments are closing down due to lack of demand from school students.
  • (14) "There may be some legitimate fear about interfering with other people's cultures, but when you talk to the husbands and boyfriends of the women they're not happy that their wives and girlfriends cannot respond sexually – and that's even without going into the misery that the women suffer," says Bowers.
  • (15) Once they've healed she sends them literature on discovering masturbation, and Gary and Bowers give all the patients their phone numbers and email.
  • (16) This year alone, there has been a hostile Blair biography , Broken Vows, by the investigative journalist Tom Bower, which dismissed the inquiry as naive and out of its depth.
  • (17) Bowers tells FGM patients that "there are no guarantees" but that eight out of 10 report improvements in their sex life after her surgery, ranging from eliminating pain and acquiring some pleasure to full-on orgasm.
  • (18) She "did not seem to ask for compassion", as Elizabeth notes at the end of her first visit to the marital bower.
  • (19) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian And Victorian senator John Madigan said “the welfare of Australian families and Australian manufacturing are both important to me, and I will not undermine either to advance the other.” The Coalition proposed deep cuts to family tax benefits in its first budget in 2014 – but about $6bn of those savings remain stalled in the Senate, opposed by Labor, the Greens and a majority of the crossbench.
  • (20) Their demand came after the CQC finally named the three people – former chief executive Cynthia Bower, her deputy Jill Finney, and media manager Anna Jefferson – who were said to be present during a discussion at the health regulator when it was decided to suppress a report that had uncovered critical weaknesses in its inspections of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.

Dower


Definition:

  • (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  • (n.) The property with which a woman is endowed
  • (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
  • (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of these findings and previous reports that complexes bound to a receptor-bearing membrane undergo additional antibody-antigen bond formation [Dower et al., Biochemistry 20, 6326-6334 (1981a) and Leslie, Protides biol.
  • (2) By using these data and the known structure of the combining site of protein MOPC 315 [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977), Nature (London) 266, 31-37] the mode of binding of Tnp derivatives is deduced by ring-current calculations.
  • (3) (Mosley, B., Urdal, D. L., Prickett, K. S., Larsen, A., Cosman, D., Conlon, P. J., Gillis, S., and Dower, S. K. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (4) One method, which was recently described by Dower et al., (J Electrocardiol 1988;21:5182-7), uses modified vectorcardiographic leads and allows for the acquisition of a derived 12-lead ECG of selected rhythm strips during the recording.
  • (5) 262, 2941-2944; Mosley, B., Dower, S. K., Gillis, S., and Cosman, D. (1987) Proc.
  • (6) The contacts expected between epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine and the site on MOPC 315 IgA, on the basis of a recent model for this site [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977) Nature (London) 266, 31--37] were not detected.
  • (7) The inverse transformation matrix of Dower proved to be the best method of synthesis.