A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
Holonym: bow and arrow
A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
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.
The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
Obsolete spelling of bough.
Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck 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, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
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Initialism of bag of words.
However, despite these shortcomings, due to its simplicity and ease of implementation, BoW is a commonly used text representation scheme, especially for text classification among other NLP problems.
To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
The musician bowed his violin expertly.
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A surname.
A place name:
From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Booge (“arch, bow, curve”), West Frisian bôge (“arc, arch...
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To bend or curve, particularly downward.
The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
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."
To debut.
The show bowed in the first week of December, 1951. Dinah was ready, and so were the technicians who put on her makeup […]
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