different between adore vs bow

English

Etymology

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin ad?r?, from ad (“to”) + ?r? (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dô?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?dôr?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?d?r?, IPA^(key): /??do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??do??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: adore

Verb

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. To worship.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[1]

     Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?

   • 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,^[2]

     [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.

   • 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,^[3]

     Come and behold him

     Born the King of Angels:

     O come, let us adore Him,

     Christ the Lord.

   Antonym: disdain

2. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,^[4]

     The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

   Antonym: disdain

3. To be very fond of.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

4. (obsolete) To adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,^[5]

     […] and likewise on her hed

     A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

     From vnder which the deawy humour shed,

     Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore

     Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

   Antonym: disdain

Derived terms

Related terms

• adorable
• adoration

Translations

Anagrams

• E-road, O'Dare, Roade, dorea, oared, oread

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do.?e/

Noun

adore

1. energy
2. courage

Declension

Synonyms

• kemen

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of adorer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
3. second-person singular imperative of adorer

Anagrams

• éroda

Galician

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

Verb

adore

1. adore
2. worship

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [?äd????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [???d????]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?do?.re/, [ä?d?o???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?do.re/, [??d?????]

Noun

adore or ad?re n

1. ablative singular of ador

Portuguese

Verb

adore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of adorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of adorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of adorar

Romanian

Verb

adore

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?do?e/, [a?ð?o.?e]

Verb

adore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adorar.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bowe, bo?e, from Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bog?, from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Danish bue, Norwegian boge, bue, Swedish båge.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /b??/
• (US) enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /bo?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: beau

Noun

bow (plural bows)

1. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
2. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
3. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
4. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
5. 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.
6. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.

   • I do set my bow in the cloud.

7. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
8. Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
9. 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.
10. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
11. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
12. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.

    Coordinate term: blade

Synonyms

• (bow-shaped bend): arc, bend, curve
• (tool for playing stringed instruments): fiddlestick
• (a type of stringed instrument): musical bow

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)

1. To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.

   The musician bowed his violin expertly.

2. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.

   The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
3. (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
   • 1843, William H. Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico

     The whole nation […] bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Atheism

     Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.

   • not to bow and bias their opinions

Derived terms

• bower
• diddley bower

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bowen, buwen, bu?en, from Old English b?gan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beugan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with Dutch buigen, German biegen, Danish bue.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bou, IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: bough

Verb

bow (third-person singular simple present bows, present participle bowing, simple past and past participle bowed)

1. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     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."

2. (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
   • 2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", West End Word, volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:

     SCP recently announced that How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.

3. (intransitive) To defer (to something).

4. (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.

Hypernyms

• (gesture): gesture; congee, congé, conge

Derived terms

Related terms

• buxom

Translations

Noun

bow (plural bows)

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.

Hypernyms

• (gesture): gesture; congee, congé, conge

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bowe, bowgh, a borrowing from Middle Low German bôch and/or Middle Dutch boech, from Proto-Germanic *b?guz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???us (“arm”). Cognate with Dutch boeg (“bow”), Danish bov (“bow”), Swedish bog (“bow”). Doublet of bough.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bou, IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Homophone: bough

Noun

bow (plural bows)

1. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
2. (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.

Synonyms

• (of a ship): prow

Antonyms

• (of a ship): poop, stern

Derived terms

• bow rudder
• bow shock
• shot across the bow, shot across the bows

Usage notes

• Often used in the plural, the ship being considered to have starboard and port bows, meeting at the stern.

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

bow (plural bows)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of bough

   • Ariell:

     Where the Bee ?ucks, there ?uck 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, ?hall I liue now

     Vnder the blo??om that hangs on the Bow.

See also

• coll'arco
• curtsy
• kowtow
• Wikipedia article on bows (weapons)
• Wikipedia article on bows used to play string instruments
• Wikipedia article on bows (the knots)
• Wikipedia article on musical bows
• Wikipedia article on bows, the gestures of respect
• Wikipedia article on the bows of ships
• Bow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• WBO

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Dutch bouwen (“to build”).

Verb

bow

1. to build
2. (figuratively, with tapu) to trust, to depend on

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?f/

Noun

b?w f (plural bowa)

1. woman
2. wife