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bow1 /bow/ intransitive verb- To bend
- To bend the neck or body in greeting, acknowledging a compliment, etc
- To submit (to)
transitive verb- To bend or incline downwards
- To crush down
- To usher with a bow
- To express by a bow
noun A bending of the neck or body as a formal or respectful greeting, or to acknowledge applause, etc ORIGIN: OE būgan to bend; cognate with L fugere to flee, to yield bowed /bowd/ adjective Bent forward a bowing acquaintance A slight acquaintance bow and scrape To kowtow, to ingratiate oneself sycophantically bow in To make a first appearance in public bow out To withdraw or retire from a place, situation, etc make one's bow - To retire ceremoniously
- To leave the stage
take a bow To acknowledge applause or recognition scrape /skrāp/ transitive verb- To pass a sharp edge over
- To move with a grating sound over
- To smooth, clean, clear, reduce in thickness, abrade, graze, remove, form, collect, bring, render, by such an action
- To get together, collect by laborious effort (often with together or up)
- To achieve with difficulty
- To erase
- Contemptuously, to play (the fiddle)
intransitive verb- To graze (with against or on)
- To scratch the ground
- To grate
- To make a grating sound
- To draw back the foot in making a bow
- To play the fiddle
- To save as much as possible, enduring hardship thereby
- To get by with difficulty (with through, along, home, etc)
noun- An act, process, or period of scraping
- A stroke of a violin, etc bow
- A grating sound
- A stroke (of a pen)
- A scraped place in the ground
- A graze or abrasion, eg on the skin
- A shave (facetious)
- A mass of earth scraped up, eg by a rabbit
- A backward movement of one foot accompanying a bow
- A scraping or thin layer
- Thin-spread butter or margarine
- A fight or other conflict (informal)
- A difficult or embarrassing predicament (informal)
ORIGIN: OE scrapian or ON skrapa scrāpˈer noun - A person who scrapes
- A scraping tool, instrument or machine
- A fiddler (derogatory)
- A barber (derogatory)
- Any of several gallinaceous birds that scrape or scratch the ground
scrāpˈie noun A degenerative disease caused by prions and affecting the central nervous system of sheep, characterized by acute itching, the animals rubbing against trees, etc to relieve it scrāpˈing noun - The action of the verb
- Its sound
- A thin piece scraped off
scrappˈage noun A scheme by which an owner of a car or other piece of equipment can claim towards the cost of replacing it scrapeˈgood noun (archaic) A miser scrapeˈgut noun (archaic) A fiddler scrapeˈpenny noun (archaic) A miser scrapˈerboard noun - A clay-surface board on which drawings can be made by scraping tints off as well as applying them
- Such a drawing
- This method of making drawings
scraper ring noun (motoring) A ring fitted on the skirt of a petrol or oil engine piston to prevent excessive oil consumption (also oil-control ring) bow and scrape To be over-obsequious scrape acquaintance with To contrive somehow to get to know scrape the (bottom of the) barrel see under barrel |