English Dictionary

bow

IPA（発音記号）

/bəʊ/

名詞

A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.

日本語の意味

弓 – 矢を射るために、曲線を描く木材や他の柔軟な素材と弦を用いて作られる武器

She knelt beside the river and carefully strung her bow before practicing her aim.

彼女は川のほとりにひざまずき、射撃の練習をする前に慎重に弓の弦を張った。

意味（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.

意味（2）

A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).

意味（3）

A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.

意味（4）

A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.

意味（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.

意味（6）

Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.

I do set my bow in the cloud.

意味（7）

The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.

意味（8）

Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.

[…] she kept toying with a pair of old sunglasses which lay beside her on the kitchen table. One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked.

意味（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.

意味（10）

(nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

意味（11）

(saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.

意味（12）

The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.

Coordinate term: blade

bows （ plural ）