bowed
/boʊd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of bow
verb
simple past and past participle of bow
adj
Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
Example Sentences
- "The viol, he argued, was in essence a bowed guitar, the result of a cross-fertilisation between the 15th-century Spanish plucked instrument known as the vihuela de mano and the medieval fiddle."
- "Heading over to the MacLeod Centre for some fresh air and a quick bowl of soup— forcing myself out of my little office, narrow work-self, out of the head-down attitude that I must finish what I;ve started — and turning the corner, I see a woman in a gold lame/ jacket and woollen hat with earflaps, playing some sort of stringed instrument in the sun. A bowed sultry, somebody says. 'A bowed what?' 'Psalter — as in psalm.'"
- "a bowed instrument"
- "The value 16/49 is evidently of importance as it corresponds to the first principal mode of vibration of a bowed string."
- "The mode of vibration of a bowed string is peculiar, since it is not a simple harmonic motion."
- "Today, the behavior of bowed string instruments is reasonably well understood, and efficient synthesis algorithms allow us to reproduce most of the phenomena that appear in real instruments."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /boʊd/
- British English: /bəʊd/