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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: loupe

Etymology 1

From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run", literally, "a leap”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap.

Noun

loop (plural loops)

1. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
2. The opening so formed.
3. A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.

   Arches, loops, and whorls are patterns found in fingerprints.

4. A ring road or beltway.
5. An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
6. A complete circuit for an electric current.
7. (programming) A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
8. (graph theory) An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
9. (topology) A path that starts and ends at the same point.
10. (transport) A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
11. (rail transport) A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
12. (algebra) A quasigroup with an identity element.
13. A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
14. An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
15. A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
16. Alternative form of loup (mass of iron).
17. (biochemistry) A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.

Hypernyms

• control structure

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• loophole
• loop line, loopline

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun.

Verb

loop (third-person singular simple present loops, present participle looping, simple past and past participle looped)

1. (transitive) To form something into a loop.
2. (transitive) To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
3. (transitive) To fly an aircraft in a loop.
4. (transitive) To move something in a loop.
5. (transitive) To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
6. (transitive) To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
7. (transitive) To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
8. (intransitive) To form a loop.
9. (intransitive) To move in a loop.

   The program loops until the user presses a key.
10. To place in a loop.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• loop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Appendix:Parts of the knot

Anagrams

• OOPL, Polo, Pool, polo, pool

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??p/

Etymology 1

From Dutch lopen, from Middle Dutch lôpen, from Old Dutch l?pan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run”).

Verb

loop (present loop, present participle lopende, past participle geloop)

1. (intransitive) to walk

Alternative forms

• loep (Western Cape)

Etymology 2

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Noun

loop (plural lope, diminutive lopie)

1. walking, gait
2. (of events) course
3. (of guns) barrel
4. (informal) business end (of a rifle, etc.)
5. (music, usually in diminutive) run: a rapid passage in music, especially along a scale

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?p/
• Hyphenation: loop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *l?p.

Noun

loop m (plural lopen, diminutive loopje n)

1. course, duration
2. a river course
3. course of a projectile
4. barrel (of a firearm)

Derived terms

Related terms

• lopen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: loop
• ? Indonesian: lop

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

loop

1. first-person singular present indicative of lopen
2. imperative of lopen

Anagrams

• Pool, pool

Portuguese

Noun

loop m (plural loops)

1. (computing) loop (repeating sequence of instructions)
2. loop (aircraft manoeuvre)

Synonyms

• (programmed sequence of instructions): ciclo, laço
• (aircraft manoeuvre): looping

Derived terms

• in loop