Bend vs. Bowing

To cause to assume a curved or angular shape

To bend or curve downward; stoop.

To bring (a bow, for example) into a state of tension by drawing on a string or line.

To incline the body or head or bend the knee in greeting, consent, courtesy, acknowledgment, submission, or veneration.

To force to assume a different direction or shape, according to one's own purpose

To yield in defeat or out of courtesy; submit.

To misrepresent; distort

To bend (the head, knee, or body) to express greeting, consent, courtesy, acknowledgment, submission, or veneration.

To relax or make an exception to

To convey (greeting, for example) by bending the body.

To cause to swerve from a straight line; deflect

To escort deferentially

To render submissive; subdue

To cause to acquiesce; submit.

To apply (the mind) closely

To overburden

(Nautical) To fasten

To bend (something) into the shape of a bow.

To deviate from a straight line or position

(Music) To play (a stringed instrument) with a bow.

To assume a curved, crooked, or angular form or direction

To bend into a curve or bow.

To incline the body; stoop.

(Music) To play a stringed instrument with a bow.

To make a concession; yield.

An inclination of the head or body, as in greeting, consent, courtesy, acknowledgment, submission, or veneration.

To apply oneself closely; concentrate

A bent, curved, or arched object.

The act or fact of bending.

A weapon consisting of a curved, flexible strip of material, especially wood, strung taut from end to end and used to launch arrows.

The state of being bent.

An archer.

Something bent

Archers considered as a group.

A knot that joins a rope to a rope or another object.

(Music) A rod having horsehair drawn tightly between its two raised ends, used in playing instruments of the violin and viol families.

Bends The thick planks in a ship's side; wales.

A stroke made by this rod.

Bends (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Decompression sickness. Used with the.

A knot usually having two loops and two ends; a bowknot.

A band passing from the upper dexter corner of an escutcheon to the lower sinister corner.

A frame for the lenses of a pair of eyeglasses.

(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

The part of such a frame passing over the ear.

(intransitive) To become curved.

A rainbow.

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

An oxbow.

(intransitive) To change direction.

All senses

(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.

The act of bending at the waist, as a sign of respect or greeting.

To stoop.

A bending.

(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

A technique for using the bow on a string instrument such as a violin.

(transitive) To force to submit.

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

(intransitive) To submit.

In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.

Bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame

(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

Managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument;

(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

Showing an excessively deferential manner

To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

To swing the body when rowing.

A curve.

Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

(heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.

(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.

The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.

The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

To apply closely or with interest; to direct.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

To jut over; to overhang.

To be inclined; to be directed.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.

Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

Hard, indurated clay; bind.

Same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.

A band.

One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.

A circular segment of a curve;

Movement that causes the formation of a curve

Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

An angular or rounded shape made by folding;

A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range

Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left

Form a curve;

Change direction;

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;

Bend one's back forward from the waist on down;

Turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest

Bend a joint;