bow

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbəʊ̯/|/ˈbɵʊ̯/    美 /ˈboʊ̯/|/ˈbɔʊ̯/|/ˈbəʉ̯/|/ˈbɐ̝ʉ̯/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
    — He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
  2. The front of a boat or ship.
    — Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
  3. Obsolete spelling of bough. alt-of,obsolete
    — Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I, / In a Cowſlips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
  4. Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads alt-of,alternative
  5. Ellipsis of bow-wow abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  6. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
    — Holonym: bow and arrow
  7. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
  8. The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
  9. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
  10. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
  11. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
  12. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
    — I do set my bow in the cloud.
  13. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
  14. Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
    — […] she kept toying with a pair of old sunglasses which lay beside her on the kitchen table. One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked.
  15. 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 hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
  16. A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
  17. Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
  18. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
  19. Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
动词 v.
  1. about to auxiliary
  2. Ellipsis of bow-wow abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  3. To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference. intransitive
    — 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."
  4. To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
    — The musician bowed his violin expertly.
  5. To debut. intransitive,transitive
    — The show bowed in the first week of December, 1951. Dinah was ready, and so were the technicians who put on her makeup […]
  6. To bend or curve, particularly downward. ergative
    — The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
  7. To defer (to something). intransitive
    — I bow to your better judgement in the matter.
  8. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue. figuratively,transitive
    — Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
  9. To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing. transitive
    — “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.
  10. To give up or cease resisting. intransitive
    — I'll never bow to that tyrant.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Ellipsis of bow-wow abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis

词形变化

bows plural bows present,singular,third-person bowing participle,present bowed participle,past bowed past bows present,singular,third-person bowing participle,present bowed participle,past bowed past bows plural bows plural bows plural bows plural bao alternative bau alternative bows plural bows present,singular,third-person bowing participle,present bowed participle,past bowed past

词汇关系

下位词
composite bow compound bow crossbow longbow recurve bow selfbow shortbow stock-bow Turkish bow
衍生词
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相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Booge (“arch, bow, curve”), West Frisian bôge (“arc, arch, bow”), Dutch boog (“arc, arch, bow”), German Bogen (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Luxembourgish Bou (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Vilamovian böga (“arc, arch, bend, bow, curve”), Yiddish בויגן (boygn, “arc, arch, bow, curve”), Danish bue (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Faroese and Icelandic bogi (“arch, bow, vault”), Jamtish buga (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål bue (“arc, arch, bow”), Norwegian Nynorsk boge (“arc, arch, bow”), Swedish båge (“bow”), Crimean Gothic boga (“bow”).
词源 2
From Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots boo, bou (“to bend, bow”), Dutch buigen (“to bow”), German biegen (“to bow”), Low German bugen (“to bow”), Luxembourgish béien (“to bow”), Danish bue (“to curve, arch”), Swedish buga (“to bow”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (biugan, “to bend, bow”).
词源 3
PIE word
*bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Middle English bowe, bowgh, a borrowing from Middle Low German bôch and/or Middle Dutch boech, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰus (“arm”). Doublet of bough.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch boeg (“bow”), German Bug (“bow, prow (of a ship); shoulder joint (of an animal)”), Luxembourgish Buch, Bou (“shoulder joint (of an animal)”), Danish bov (“bow”), Icelandic bógur (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål baug (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bog (“bow; shoulder (of an animal)”).
词源 4
See bough.
词源 5
Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1).
词源 6
Clipping of boutta, itself a contraction of about to.
词源 7
Clipping of bow-wow
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