arrow
See also: Arrow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English arow, arwe, from Old English earh, arewe, arwe, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv, ørvur (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “a dart”), Latin arquus, arcus (“bow”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ar‧row
Audio (US, without Mary-marry-merry merger): (file) Audio (US, with Mary-marry-merry merger): (file) - Rhymes: -ærəʊ
Noun
arrow (plural arrows)
- A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
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- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- A sign or symbol used to indicate a direction (e.g. →).
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (colloquial, darts) A dart.
- 2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night (page 182)
- The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
“Good arrows!” came from all around the room. Total silence came from the opposition corner.
- The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
- 2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night (page 182)
- (computing) The -> symbol, which has specific meanings in various programming languages.
- (botany) The inflorescence or tassel of a mature sugar cane plant.
- 1921, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer[1], volume 67, page 187:
- When the bulb of the “blowing ball” is operated, a gentle spray, much like what happens in Nature when a sugar cane arrow is shaken by the wind or gently tapped, is given out at the free end of the capsule and can be directed to any portion of the arrow as desired.
Synonyms
- (projectile): streal
- (in graph theory): arc, directed edge
Derived terms
Terms derived from arrow
Translations
projectile
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symbol
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in graph theory — see directed edge
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See also
Arrows in Unicode (hexadecimal range 0x2190–0x21ff)
Verb
arrow (third-person singular simple present arrows, present participle arrowing, simple past and past participle arrowed)
- (intransitive) To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow)
- (transitive) To let fly swiftly and directly
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- Jermain Defoe dinked in an equaliser and Gareth Bale hit the crossbar for the hosts before Elliott Bennett arrowed in Norwich's winner.
- (intransitive, botany, of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence.
- 1848, Louis Antoine A.G. De Verteuil, Three essays on the cultivation of the sugar-cane in Trinidad[3], page 12:
- The more vigorous and luxuriant the vegetation of a field of canes, the less will the tendency to flowering be shewn; whereas nearly all the canes will be found to arrow if the soil be poor and the vegetation meagre.
- 1903, Planter and Sugar Manufacturer[4], volume 30, page 374:
- In some sugar cane countries efforts are made to harvest the cane crops before the period of arrowing, and in Barbados it is thought that a considerable loss occurs in the yield of sugar if the harvest be delayed and only completed through the arrowing season.
- 1905, Sugar-Cane Experiments in the Leeward Islands[5]:
- It is easily grown and arrows freely. It appears to be of moderate merit only, but might be cautiously tried on a small scale.
- (computing, intransitive) To navigate using the arrow keys.
- Arrow left until you reach the start of the text you want to delete.
Etymology 2
Representing pronunciation.
Contraction
arrow
- (obsolete) Contraction of ever a (sometimes used with a redundant a or an).
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 153:
- though he hath lived here this many years, I don't believe there is arrow a servant in the house ever saw the colour of his money.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 153:
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