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Definition of arrow in English: arrownoun ˈarəʊˈɛroʊ 1A weapon consisting of a thin, straight stick with a sharp point, designed to be shot from a bow. I've never used a bow and arrow the road continues straight as an arrow Example sentencesExamples - To get the correct arrow length, use a long arrow and draw the bow to full draw.
- They took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts.
- Viking warriors commonly used bows and arrows, as well as other missile weapons such as throwing-spears and axes.
- She redirected her aim and let the arrow fly in the direction of the animal.
- The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows.
- Imagine an archery target with two arrows sticking in the very centre of it.
- He was dead, on the floor, with an arrow sticking out of his neck.
- They were carrying all sorts of weapons, including arrows, swords and axes.
- It felt as if there was one of Cupid's magical love arrows sticking straight out of my heart.
- Archery is like darts, except that the arrows are launched, not by hand, but by a recurve bow.
- They stood in the trenches, weapons unsheathed and arrows nocked on bows.
- Feathers at the end of the arrow kept its path straight after its release from the bow.
- Koreans on the river banks, aware that the officials had not returned, shot arrows and threw stones in protest.
- There were already numerous arrows flying in both directions with soldiers falling on both sides.
- Lykopis heard the hissing of an arrow and saw the man fall, the same arrow sticking out his neck.
- Hundreds of arrows were stuck into the ground in front of the archers as they took up positions at the rear defensive line.
- Then one of then pulled out a crossbow and shot arrows above my head.
Synonyms shaft, bolt, dart literary reed historical quarrel - 1.1 A mark or sign resembling an arrow, used to show direction or position.
we followed a series of arrows Example sentencesExamples - Small posts with arrows indicate the direction of the nearest phone.
- There wasn't any indication towards where they were going at all, no signs or pointing neon arrows.
- Double arrows mark epidermal adaxial surface at site of angiospermy.
- Block arrows indicate the direction of transcription in this and all other figures.
- I have marked with black arrows the direction in which they could have walked to the spot they eventually stole the cab from.
- The pieces are set up as shown on the drawing and moved in the directions indicated by the arrows.
- On the back of the flyer, Lam drew a map of the area with dates and names and arrows pointing in various directions.
- Now imagine the piece of wood in the diagram spinning in the direction of the arrows.
- The top arrow indicates the direction of increasing density within the gradient.
- Inferred genes are indicated by arrows, indicating direction of transcription.
- Just a few minutes into our trek to Amsterdam we mistakenly followed the way one sign was facing instead of the direction of the arrow on it.
- Continue for a quarter of a mile along the edge of the ridge until a yellow arrow waymarker indicates a path leading down to a house on the left alongside a wall.
- Within each feature set you can navigate with the tab key and the arrow keys.
- For instance, one could assume that the arrows illustrated wind direction or speed.
- Yellow paint lines, arrows and numbers mark the sidewalks where five people died under a Dublin bus last week.
- The way this site has developed means that Kingsclere does not begin right at the junction, hence the arrow on our sign.
- Taking this to mean there would be an emergency phone, I set off walking along the highway in the direction of the arrow.
- Pressing any of the arrow keys turns the cursor into a resize cursor, and moves it to the relevant edge of the window.
- I'm sure by now you all know about the full screen menu you get when pressing the arrow keys on your DSTV remote.
- At end of track, go through gate and straight ahead in the direction of red arrow waymark.
Synonyms pointer, indicator, marker, needle, hand, index
verb ˈarəʊ no object, with adverbial of direction Move or appear to move swiftly and directly. lights arrowed down into the airport Example sentencesExamples - With the ball arrowing towards the top corner, Dudek gets a finger-tip to it.
- From the distant night streaks of fire appeared, arrowing down onto the palace rooftop.
- Gallagher equalised in the 47th minute with a improvised over-head kick then two minutes later it was 4-3 as Morgan tricked his way past a couple of challenges before arrowing a shot past Wayne Henderson.
- Midway through the second half a kick which might have won the game was cruelly whipped to the left of the upright, having spent most of its trajectory arrowing right between them.
- He was hardly back on his feet again when he had to claw out a Sara header arrowed at the base of his left-hand post.
- Just as the ball appeared to be arrowing into the top corner of the net, Colgan palmed the ball behind to safety.
- Somewhere in the forest, an owl arrowed down to catch a mouse.
- The kingfisher came arrowing along the shoreline, saw the heron, and made a screeching halt in midair.
- The flick header from the centre half was arrowing for the bottom corner but Achterberg managed to bat it down and then won the scramble with Wetherall to cling on to the skipper's close-range prod from the rebound.
- His conversion five minutes earlier had come from virtually exactly the same spot on the right touchline, and had arrowed between the posts.
- And once again his shot was true, arrowing past the despairing McKenzie.
- At the other end, Magdalen always looked the more likely to get the next goal with Chris Woodcock arrowing a long range effort wide and Jones spurning a good chance.
- Then he saw Collingwood's throw arrowing in towards the wicketkeeper, and his stride quickened.
- A long throw from Bailey arrowed on to the head of the giant Ben Futcher loitering on the penalty spot.
- A corner was worked short by Quinton Fortune, the South African international, and Beckham sent the ball arrowing into the area.
- This time the striker didn't need any assistance with his superb 25-yard shot arrowing into the top corner.
- Colgan's kick was flicked on by Lehmann and the ball arrowed into a channel between Oueifio and Greg Strong.
- The beam arrowed down and rent the landscape in two.
- Another shows a diver's slender body arrowing into a pool at an exact vertical, her fingertips just breaking the surface of the water.
- It was travelling at more than 140 mph as it arrowed along the 1.9 miles of tarmac at Elvington Airfield, near York.
Phrases arrow of time (or time's arrow) The direction of travel from past to future in time considered as a physical dimension. Example sentencesExamples - It's not a method of somehow reversing the arrow of time.
- In the late twentieth century, an arrow of time may have been discovered at the subatomic level.
- So in the physics department we have classes on the arrow of time, quantum mechanics for everyone.
- I learned something about the psychological arrow of time from David Albert.
- I'm still at NYU, giving a seminar this afternoon on inflation and the arrow of time.
- The circles of periodicity are really spirals, stretched out along the arrow of time that flies only in one direction, and sooner or later brings down every creature.
- If the thermodynamic arrow of time [for periods much shorter than Poincare's recurrence time] is to be explained by entropy increase, as Boltzmann hoped, then we want to know why entropy was so low in the past.
- In physics, a question which often bothers theoreticians is the origin of an arrow of time.
- Some recent changes have been of the kind that make you wish time's arrow could be less relentless.
- After all, to play most sports, even at the level of the village green or recreational field, is to be reminded ceaselessly of time's arrow: of the ruthless, inexorable, uni-directionality of our lives.
- Follow the giant arrow of time from the origin of the universe, through the creation of stars, planets, human life, modern culture and beyond into the future.
- There was a conference on Wheeler Feynman electrodynamics and the arrow of time, in 1963.
- The idea that time's arrow is unidirectional is really an observation.
- In whichever direction a writer shoots time's arrow, though, the bowstring is human nature, a relative constant.
- In other words, in the microworld, there is no intrinsic arrow of time, distinguishing the future from the past.
- The recognition of these patterns of eclipses in the archives then would have allowed them to reverse the arrow of time, and project the cycles into the future.
- There are at least two other branches of physical theory in which raise the question of the arrow of time, as it is sometimes called.
Derivatives adjective ‘Me too,’ says Christopher and we rejoin the arrowed path and wander off in vaguely the direction we think we came from earlier. Example sentencesExamples - The UI is clearly touchscreen, but it is presumably cheaper to not use a touchscreen and use arrowed buttons that point at the bits of the screen you'd touch if it were a touchscreen.
- Orientations of transcription for each gene are represented by arrowed boxes.
- Martine summoned one of them with the press of an illuminated, arrowed button.
- The possible refinements of TB positions are indicated by arrowed lines.
adjective After a long ramble through the dense encumbered woods I emerged upon a smooth meadow full of sunshine like a lake of light, about a mile and a half long, a quarter to half a mile wide, and bounded by tall arrowy pines. Example sentencesExamples - Near the end of March, 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall, arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber.
Origin Old English arewe, arwe, from Old Norse. This is from Old Norse, but is only indirectly the source of the plant called arrowroot (late 17th century). The tubers of this Caribbean plant were used to absorb poison from arrow wounds. The word is an alteration of Arawak aru-aru (literally ‘meal of meals’) to conform with the more familiar words arrow and root.
Rhymes barrow, farrow, harrow, Jarrow, marrow, narrow, sparrow, taro, tarot, Varro, yarrow Definition of arrow in US English: arrownounˈerōˈɛroʊ 1A shaft sharpened at the front and with feathers or vanes at the back, shot from a bow as a weapon or for sport. his ability to launch an arrow accurately Example sentencesExamples - Koreans on the river banks, aware that the officials had not returned, shot arrows and threw stones in protest.
- He was dead, on the floor, with an arrow sticking out of his neck.
- Then one of then pulled out a crossbow and shot arrows above my head.
- They were carrying all sorts of weapons, including arrows, swords and axes.
- Hundreds of arrows were stuck into the ground in front of the archers as they took up positions at the rear defensive line.
- To get the correct arrow length, use a long arrow and draw the bow to full draw.
- They took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts.
- They stood in the trenches, weapons unsheathed and arrows nocked on bows.
- Archery is like darts, except that the arrows are launched, not by hand, but by a recurve bow.
- Lykopis heard the hissing of an arrow and saw the man fall, the same arrow sticking out his neck.
- She redirected her aim and let the arrow fly in the direction of the animal.
- There were already numerous arrows flying in both directions with soldiers falling on both sides.
- Viking warriors commonly used bows and arrows, as well as other missile weapons such as throwing-spears and axes.
- It felt as if there was one of Cupid's magical love arrows sticking straight out of my heart.
- The Sultan's army was primarily light cavalry armed with crossbows that shot poisoned arrows.
- Imagine an archery target with two arrows sticking in the very centre of it.
- Feathers at the end of the arrow kept its path straight after its release from the bow.
- 1.1 A mark or sign resembling an arrow, used to show direction or position; a pointer.
we drove in the main gate and followed a series of arrows as modifier you can use the up and down arrow keys Example sentencesExamples - Small posts with arrows indicate the direction of the nearest phone.
- The top arrow indicates the direction of increasing density within the gradient.
- On the back of the flyer, Lam drew a map of the area with dates and names and arrows pointing in various directions.
- I'm sure by now you all know about the full screen menu you get when pressing the arrow keys on your DSTV remote.
- For instance, one could assume that the arrows illustrated wind direction or speed.
- Inferred genes are indicated by arrows, indicating direction of transcription.
- There wasn't any indication towards where they were going at all, no signs or pointing neon arrows.
- The way this site has developed means that Kingsclere does not begin right at the junction, hence the arrow on our sign.
- Continue for a quarter of a mile along the edge of the ridge until a yellow arrow waymarker indicates a path leading down to a house on the left alongside a wall.
- Double arrows mark epidermal adaxial surface at site of angiospermy.
- Taking this to mean there would be an emergency phone, I set off walking along the highway in the direction of the arrow.
- At end of track, go through gate and straight ahead in the direction of red arrow waymark.
- Pressing any of the arrow keys turns the cursor into a resize cursor, and moves it to the relevant edge of the window.
- The pieces are set up as shown on the drawing and moved in the directions indicated by the arrows.
- Block arrows indicate the direction of transcription in this and all other figures.
- I have marked with black arrows the direction in which they could have walked to the spot they eventually stole the cab from.
- Just a few minutes into our trek to Amsterdam we mistakenly followed the way one sign was facing instead of the direction of the arrow on it.
- Now imagine the piece of wood in the diagram spinning in the direction of the arrows.
- Yellow paint lines, arrows and numbers mark the sidewalks where five people died under a Dublin bus last week.
- Within each feature set you can navigate with the tab key and the arrow keys.
Synonyms pointer, indicator, marker, needle, hand, index
Phrases arrow of time (or time's arrow) The direction of travel from past to future in time considered as a physical dimension. Example sentencesExamples - After all, to play most sports, even at the level of the village green or recreational field, is to be reminded ceaselessly of time's arrow: of the ruthless, inexorable, uni-directionality of our lives.
- In other words, in the microworld, there is no intrinsic arrow of time, distinguishing the future from the past.
- In whichever direction a writer shoots time's arrow, though, the bowstring is human nature, a relative constant.
- The recognition of these patterns of eclipses in the archives then would have allowed them to reverse the arrow of time, and project the cycles into the future.
- In physics, a question which often bothers theoreticians is the origin of an arrow of time.
- The idea that time's arrow is unidirectional is really an observation.
- In the late twentieth century, an arrow of time may have been discovered at the subatomic level.
- So in the physics department we have classes on the arrow of time, quantum mechanics for everyone.
- There was a conference on Wheeler Feynman electrodynamics and the arrow of time, in 1963.
- If the thermodynamic arrow of time [for periods much shorter than Poincare's recurrence time] is to be explained by entropy increase, as Boltzmann hoped, then we want to know why entropy was so low in the past.
- I learned something about the psychological arrow of time from David Albert.
- There are at least two other branches of physical theory in which raise the question of the arrow of time, as it is sometimes called.
- Follow the giant arrow of time from the origin of the universe, through the creation of stars, planets, human life, modern culture and beyond into the future.
- It's not a method of somehow reversing the arrow of time.
- Some recent changes have been of the kind that make you wish time's arrow could be less relentless.
- I'm still at NYU, giving a seminar this afternoon on inflation and the arrow of time.
- The circles of periodicity are really spirals, stretched out along the arrow of time that flies only in one direction, and sooner or later brings down every creature.
Perfectly straight, with no deviation. Example sentencesExamples - Ayako sat down on the plush red couch and sat at attention, her back straight as an arrow.
- Adela Breton, there she is, one of a vanished breed of tough Englishwomen, dressed neatly in the full Edwardian regalia of the day, every hair in place, and spine straight as an arrow!
- Kat continued straight as an arrow on her course.
- A track doubles back and angles up Northdale Rigg, straight as an arrow and into the heather.
- There was one perfect crack that was in varying girth, but straight as an arrow.
- The river sliced through the scoop, straight as an arrow, to the precipice, where, with great tumult and crescendo, it dropped into the abyss.
- In Afghanistan, where the roads run straight as an arrow across baking plains, they came across an accident.
- The giant stood in one place - straight as an arrow and tense as a string on a bow.
- It doesn't go right or left or this or that; it just goes straight as an arrow.
- Trudy stood straight as an arrow, pure hatred glowing in her face.
- Don's swing was straight as an arrow throughout the backswing, down to the release point.
- The rope flew down, straight as an arrow into the stranger's hands.
- They know the proper streamline is with the head looking down, hands together and the body straight as an arrow, with the head just under the water surface.
- The road leading down from the hill was straight as an arrow and connected directly to the docks.
- He wore his hair short to the skull with a narrow, little part shaved up one side straight as an arrow, and he had a pencil-thin mustache, like Errol Flynn, folds in the back of his neck like fat pleats, and beady black rat eyes.
Origin Old English arewe, arwe, from Old Norse. |