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bowing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bowing has 2 senses
- bowing(n = noun.communication) bow, obeisance - bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting; Array is a kind of reverence, gesture, motion
- bowing(n = noun.act) Array - managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument; "the violinist's bowing was excellent" is a kind of playing
has particulars: genuflection, genuflexion, kotow, kowtow, scrape, scraping, salaam
has particulars: spiccato, spiccato bowing
Adjective bowing has 1 sense
- bowing(s = adj.all) bowed - showing an excessively deferential manner; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
bowing, n.
- The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. [1913 Webster]"Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc." [1913 Webster]
- In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting. [1913 Webster]
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