bow

Noun

bow (plural bows)

1. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
2. A bow-shaped bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
3. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
4. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces, apron strings, etc.

Synonyms:

• (of a ship): prow

Antonyms:

• (of a ship): [[aft]], [[poop]], [[stern]]

3 letters in word "bow": B O W.

No anagrams for bow found in this word list.

Words found within bow:

bo ob ow wo

• Definitions:
• a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands, used in playing certain stringed instrument front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" curved piece of resilient wood with taut cord to propel arrows something curved in shape bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head; "He bowed before the King"; "She bowed her head in shame" bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame submit: submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure" an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting; "He bowed before the King" a decorative interlacing of ribbons crouch: bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse" play on a string instrument
• A boat is a craft or vessel designed to float on, and provide transport over, water.
• The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is most forward when the vessel is underway. The adjectives fore/forward and aft mean towards the bow and stern, respectively.
• In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound.
• Bow is a fictional character in the animated television series . He is a member of The Great Rebellion. In one episode he is referred to as the best archer in all of Etheria. He is famed for the accuracy of his shot. He works along side Arrow, his horse. ...
• A bow is an ancient weapon that shoots arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow. Energy is stored in the limbs of the bow and transformed into rapid motion when the string is released, with the string transferring this motion to the arrow. ...
• the front of a ship.
• The bow occurs in heraldry occasionally, though not as frequently as might have been expected, it was once an essential weapon of war.
• The distortion of lumber in which there is a deviation, in a direction perpendicular to the flat face, from a straight line from end to end of the piece.
• The girl with the bow in her hair was told to bow deeply when greeting her superiors.
• The forward end of the boat, the pointy end
• Forward end of a boat.
• The front part of the ship.
• The front or forward end of the kayak.
• pointed front of the boat.
• (bow) (bo) [AS boga bow, arch] an arched or curved appliance or device.
• The Front of a boat.
• the front section of a boat.
• The forward section of the boat; the end that crosses the finish line first. Also refers to the first seat rower, who occupies the seat farthest forward.
• The fore end of a vessel.
• The front of a canoe or kayak.
• The end of the boat nearest the direction of travel.
• The deviation from flatness of a board characterized by a roughly cylindrical or spherical curvature such that, if the product is rectangle, its four corners are in the same plane.
• Bow is a banjo neck condition caused by long term string pressure curving the neck so that the neck curves upward as you approach the nut. Most old banjos have some bow in the neck. Slight bow can be corrected by placing a thin wooden shim between the neck and the pot at the top of the pot. ...
• the foremost end or part of a ship, the opposite of stern.
• A specific type of warping. Plank or strip has a curvature from end to end, flatwise. Specific types of bowing are horns up (the ends of the strip or plank are pointing upward or sometimes called end lift) and horns down (the ends of the strip or plank are pointing downward.)
• Forward part of the boat
• Projected window with a curved surface often in the glass itself.
• i) The fore-end of a boat or a ship, 'ship's bow', ii) A slip-knot with double loop.
• of a semiconductor wafer, the deviation of the center point of the median surface of a free, unclamped wafer from a median-surface reference plane established by three points equally spaced on a circle with diameter a specified amount less than the nominal diameter of the wafer. ...
• Longitudinal curvature of rod, bar, shapes, and tube. Bow is measured after allowing the weight of the extrusion to minimize the deviation. ...

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