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单词 bowheads
释义

bow2 /bō/

noun
  1. A piece of flexible wood or other material for shooting arrows, bent by means of a string stretched between its ends
  2. Anything of a bent or curved shape, such as the rainbow
  3. A bow-shaped strip for collecting current from an overhead wire (elec eng)
  4. A yoke (Shakespeare)
  5. A rod (orig curved but now nearly straight) strung with horsehair, by which the strings of a violin, etc are played
  6. A ring of metal forming a handle
  7. The frame surrounding the lenses, or the curved end of the leg of spectacles (US)
  8. A bowknot
  9. A looped knot of ribbons
  10. A bow tie
  11. A single movement (up or down) or stroke of the bow in playing an instrument
intransitive verb

To handle the bow in playing

transitive verb
  1. To play (an instrument) with a bow
  2. To mark (for stringed instruments) which notes should be played downbow and which upbow
ORIGIN: OE boga; cognate with Ger Bogen

bowˈing noun

  1. The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a bow
  2. The marking of the upbows and downbows

bowˈyer noun

  1. A bowman
  2. A maker of bows for archery

bowˈ-backed adjective

With bent back

bowˈbent adjective (Milton)

Bent like a bow

bowˈ-boy noun

  1. A boy archer
  2. Cupid (Shakespeare)

bowˈ-compasses plural noun

A small pair of compasses, often with a bow-shaped spring instead of a hinge

bowˈfin noun

A N American freshwater fish (genus Amia) of the order Holostei

bowˈ-fronted adjective

Having a convex front

bowˈ-hand noun

The hand in which the bow is held, normally in archery, the left, in stringed instrument-playing, the right

bowˈhead noun

An Arctic right whale (Balaena mysticetus), with a large head and arched jaw

bowˈknot noun

A (usu decorative) knot with one or two loops

bow leg noun

A bandy leg like a bow

bowˈ-legged /-legd or -leg-id/ adjective

bowˈman noun

An archer

bowˈsaw noun

  1. A saw with a narrow blade stretched like a bowstring in a strong bow-shaped frame (also logˈ-saw)
  2. A saw with a narrow blade stretched in an H-shaped frame and held taut by tightening a cord at the opposite end of the frame

bowˈshot noun

The distance to which an arrow can be shot from a bow

bowˈstring noun

  1. The string by which a bow is drawn
  2. A string with which the Turks strangled offenders (historical)
  3. A horizontal tie on a bridge or girder

transitive verb (pat and pap bowˈstringed, sometimes bowˈstrung)

To strangle with a bowstring

adjective

Of, for or having a bowstring

bowˈstring-hemp noun

The genus Sansevieria or its fibre

bow tie noun

A necktie tied in a two-looped bowknot, often for formal wear

bowˈ-tied adjective

Wearing a bow tie

bow window noun

  1. A window projecting in a curve
  2. A pot-belly (obs sl)

bow-winˈdowed adjective

draw the long bow

To make extravagant statements

on the bow hand

Wide of the mark

two strings to one's bow

An alternative in reserve
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