bowing
English
Pronunciation
- (bending at the waist): IPA(key): /ˈbaʊɪŋ/
Audio (US) /ˈbaʊɪŋ/: (file)
- (becoming bent; playing a string instrument):
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈboʊɪŋ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbəʊɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
- Hyphenation: bow‧ing
Verb
bowing
- Template:en-ing form of (all senses)
Noun
bowing (countable and uncountable, plural bowings)
- The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.
- The courtier had practiced his bowing.
- A bending.
- The heavy books caused a bowing in the shelf.
- A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461:
- The bowing arm, the fingers on the strings, and then the violin itself polished brown, and the soloist's chin pillowed on it.
Translations
the act of bending as a sign of respect
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