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Bowing   /bˈoʊɪŋ/  /bˈaʊɪŋ/   Listen
Bowing

noun
1.
Bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting.  Synonyms: bow, obeisance.
2.
Managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument.
adjective
1.
Showing an excessively deferential manner.  Synonym: bowed.


Bow

verb
(past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)
1.
Bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head.  Synonym: bow down.  "She bowed her head in shame"
2.
Yield to another's wish or opinion.  Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit.
3.
Bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting.
4.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
5.
Play on a string instrument with a bow.



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"Bowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... many men than drink. They prefer gambling with their lives to gambling with their money. They have the gambler's faith in their lucky star. They are preoccupied with the vision of victory to the exclusion of all timid thoughts. They have a dramatic sense that sets them anticipatorily on a stage, bowing to the applause of the multitude. It is the applause, I fancy, rather than the peril itself, that entices them. The average boy who performs a deed of derring-do performs it before his admiring fellows. Even in so small a thing as ringing a bell and running away ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd
... was spread out to view—rich landscapes and sloping meadows, clothed in green, waving their heavy burden in the morning breeze. The dew lay heavily upon the earth, and the thick foliage of the trees sparkled with the glittering dewdrops bowing ...
— Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer • Avis A. (Burnham) Stanwood
... stood by the desk, and said eagerly, "Now, Aunty, I am ready," and fell to smiling and bowing with all the persuasiveness and elegance ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... of the suave, amused drawl, and looked upon a dark, slim young man of picturesque appearance. He was bowing to her with an obvious intention of overdoing it. Voice and manner had the habit of the South rather than of the West. A kind of indolent irony sat easily upon the swarthy face crowned with a ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine
... in command, and this being his first visit to the arsenal since his return from a tour round the world, he was received by the officials with manifestations of delight. We had another opportunity of seeing the bowing practice in its fullest development. The various foremen as they approached bowed three times almost to the ground, and in some cases they went first upon their knees and struck the floor three times with their foreheads. We were afterward informed that only a few years ago these would have added ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie


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