Meaning of bow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
2. Initialism of bag of words.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Alternative letter-case form of BOW.
   alt-of
4. ISO 639-3 language code for Rema
5. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
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.
7. The front of a boat or ship.
8. Obsolete spelling of bough.
   alt-of, obsolete
9. Ellipsis of bow-wow
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
10. A surname
11. A place name:
    countable, uncountable
12. A place in the United Kingdom
    countable, uncountable
13. A suburb of eastern London in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3782).
    countable, uncountable
14. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows
15. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
16. The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
17. A place in the United Kingdom A suburb of eastern London in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England . A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England . A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon . A hamlet in Stanford in the Vale parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England
18. A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7201).
    countable, uncountable
19. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow)
20. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
21. A suburb of eastern London in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England
22. A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8156).
    countable, uncountable
23. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments
24. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
25. A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England
26. A hamlet in Stanford in the Vale parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3494).
    countable, uncountable
27. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking
28. 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.
29. A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon
30. A place in the United States
    countable, uncountable
31. An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky.
    countable, uncountable
32. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
33. A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
    countable, uncountable
34. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
35. An unincorporated commmunity in Skagit County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
36. Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
37. Ellipsis of Bow Creek
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
38. 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.
39. Ellipsis of Bow Street
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
40. A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
41. Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
42. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
43. Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.

Equivalents

Examples

“Holonym: bow and arrow”

“Bows come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and cultures, and what is true of one, is not necessarily true of another, so we're gonna be stereotyping here, but, in general, a bow is a way of launching a pointy stick at somebody that you don't like.”

“I do set my bow in the cloud.”

“[…] 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.”

“He made a polite bow as he entered the room.”

“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.”

“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.”

“[Y]ou are to faſten that line to any bow neer to a hole where a Pike is, or is likely to lye, or to have a haunt, […]”

“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.”

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