The difference between Bow and Curve

When used as nouns, bow means a weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows, whereas curve means a gentle bend, such as in a road.

When used as verbs, bow means to play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow, whereas curve means to bend.

Curve is also adjective with the meaning: bent without angles.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bow and Curve

  1. Bow as a noun:

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

  2. Bow as a noun:

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

  3. Bow as a noun:

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

  4. Bow as a noun:

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

  5. Bow as a noun:

    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.

  6. Bow as a noun:

    Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.

  7. Bow as a noun:

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

  8. Bow as a noun:

    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.

  9. Bow as a noun (nautical):

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

  10. Bow as a noun (saddlery):

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

  11. Bow as a noun:

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

  1. Bow as a verb:

    To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.

    Examples:

    "The musician bowed his violin expertly."

  2. Bow as a verb (intransitive):

    To become bent or curved.

    Examples:

    "The shelf bowed under the weight of the books."

    "RQ:King James Version Psalms 62 3 passage=How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shall be slaine all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence."

  3. Bow as a verb (transitive):

    To make something bend or curve.

  4. Bow as a verb (transitive, figurative):

    To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

  5. Bow as a verb (intransitive):

    To premiere.

    Examples:

    "Cronenberg’s "Cosmopolis" bows in Cannes this week."

  1. Bow as a verb (intransitive):

    To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.

    Examples:

    "That singer always bows towards her audience for some reason."

  2. Bow as a verb (transitive, and, intransitive):

    To debut.

  3. Bow as a verb (intransitive):

    To defer (to something).

    Examples:

    "I bow to your better judgement in the matter."

  4. Bow as a verb (transitive):

    To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.

  1. Bow as a noun:

    A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence

    Examples:

    "He made a polite bow as he entered the room."

  1. Bow as a noun (nautical):

    The front of a boat or ship.

  2. Bow as a noun (rowing):

    The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.

  1. Curve as an adjective (obsolete):

    Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

    Examples:

    "a curve [[line]]"

    "a curve [[surface]]"

  1. Curve as a noun:

    A gentle bend, such as in a road.

    Examples:

    "You should slow down when approaching a curve."

  2. Curve as a noun:

    A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

    Examples:

    "She scribbled a curve on the paper."

  3. Curve as a noun:

    A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

    Examples:

    "The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve."

  4. Curve as a noun (analytic geometry):

    A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.

  5. Curve as a noun (geometry):

    A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.

  6. Curve as a noun (algebraic geometry):

    An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.

  7. Curve as a noun (topology):

    A one-dimensional continuum.

  8. Curve as a noun (informal, usually, in the plural):

    The attractive shape of a woman's body.

  1. Curve as a verb (transitive):

    To bend; to crook.

    Examples:

    "to curve a line"

    "to curve a pipe"

  2. Curve as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to swerve from a straight course.

    Examples:

    "to curve a ball in pitching it"

  3. Curve as a verb (intransitive):

    To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

    Examples:

    "the road curves to the right"

  4. Curve as a verb:

    To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

    Examples:

    "The teacher will curve the test."

  5. Curve as a verb (slang):

    To reject, to turn down romantic advances

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