bow

1. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.Examples: "The shelf bowed under the weight of the books."; "How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shall be slaine all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence."intransitive

2. (transitive) To make something bend or curve.Examples: "[…] as when we bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their naturall ſtraitneſſe."; "The whole nation […]bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny."transitive

3. (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.Examples: "Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion."; "not to bow and bias their opinions"figurativelytransitive

4. (transitive, figurative) To humble or subdue, to make submit.Examples: "Know thou the secret of a spirit Bow’d from its wild pride into shame."figurativelytransitive

1. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.Examples: "The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green silk gown, entered the room. She had lovely green hair and green eyes, and she bowed low before Dorothy as she said, "Follow me and I will show you your room.""; "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite."; "That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason."intransitive

2. (transitive and intransitive) To debut.Examples: "The show bowed in the first week of December, 1951. Dinah was ready, and so were the technicians who put on her makeup […]"; "SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December."intransitivetransitive

3. (intransitive) To defer (to something).Examples: "I bow to your better judgement in the matter."intransitive

4. (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.Examples: "“This way, monsieur,” he said, and led the way up the broad, marble staircase. In another moment he had opened a door, and, drawing aside a heavy curtain, obsequiously bowed Tarzan into a dimly lighted apartment. Then Jacques vanished."; "Poirot rose gallantly, bowed her into the seat opposite him."; "He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea."transitive

1. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.Examples: "Holonyms: watercraft < vessel"; "Meronyms: beak, beak, beakhead"; "The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity."Synonyms: stem, forestem, fore, prow, proreAntonyms: stern, aft, poop

2. (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.

1. (computational linguistics) Initialism of bag of words.Examples: "However, despite these shortcomings, due to its simplicity and ease of implementation, BoW is a commonly used text representation scheme, especially for text classification among other NLP problems."abbreviationalt-ofinitialism

1. (computational linguistics) Alternative letter-case form of BOW.alt-of