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"ARROWS" is a plural of: arrow. |
Date "ARROWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Arrows At first made of reeds, and then of wood tipped with iron. Arrows are sometimes figuratively put for lightning (Deut. 32:23, 42; Ps. 7:13; 18:14; 144:6; Zech. 9:14). They were used in war as well as in the chase (Gen. 27:3; 49:23). They were also used in divination (Ezek. 21:21). The word is frequently employed as a symbol of calamity or disease inflicted by God (Job 6:4; 34:6; Ps. 38:2; Deut. 32:23. Comp. Ezek. 5:16), or of some sudden danger (Ps. 91:5), or bitter words (Ps. 64:3), or false testimony (Prov. 25:18). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | V-type blocks kept with their vertex on upstream side in the path of flow. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(See also the article on economist Kenneth Arrow.)An arrow is a projectile that is shot with a bow. It predates history and is common to most cultures.
An arrow is a long and thin formerly of wood now, aluminum or carbon fiber matrix are common materials, pointed (or armed with an arrowhead if the purpose is hunting rather than target-shooting) at one end and with a notch in the other. Near the notch end are vanes (often three but amany fletchings have four or even more), originally made from feathers but now often made of plastic, which keep the arrow pointed in the direction of travel.
To shoot an arrow with a conventional (long) bow, place the string of the bow in the notch of the arrow, rest the shaft of the arrow against the body of the bow (on its right side if you are right-handed), if there are an odd number of vanes be sure that the arrow is oriented so that one vane is directly opposite the body of the bow, pull back on the string, and let go. Right-handed people hold the bow with their left hand, have their left side facing the target, sight along the arrow (towards the target) with their left eye, and handle the arrow and string with their right hand. The left wrist should be bent outward so that the returning string doesn't scrape the inside of the wrist or catch on a wrist-guard.
Somebody else supply how-to for using a crossbow and maybe something on how arrows differ from darts.
An arrow is a universally recognized symbol for directional movement.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arrow."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~". |
Prediction | Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve |
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Crosswords: ARROWS |
| English words defined with "ARROWS": archery, arrow wood, arrowsmith, Arrowy ♦ Balistraria, battlement, Belomancy, Bloodflower, bow, bow and arrow ♦ crenelation, crenellation ♦ Fletcher, Flint implements ♦ quiver ♦ southern arrow wood, Springal, Sumpitan ♦ Upas ♦ Viburnum dentatum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ARROWS": Archers, Arowroot, arrow key, ARROW POISON, ARTEMISIA SODIROI, Arthur's Seat, ASTROCARYUM STANDLEYANUM ♦ Belinuncia, BOW MAKER, CUSTOM ♦ carriageway marking, critical path scheduling, CUPID, current rose ♦ Devil's Arrows ♦ Engines ♦ flowchart, FOLLY ♦ GUSTAVIA SUPERBA, GYNERIUM SAGITTATUM, GYNOXYS PARVIFOLIA ♦ Jonathan's Arrows, Juajua ♦ Mont St. Michel ♦ network analysis, network techniques ♦ PENTACLETHRA MACROPHYLLA, Philoctetes ♦ Rat-killer, road marking ♦ Scythian Defiance, Sebastian, Symbols of Saints ♦ Wabun, Workflow Charting ♦ Xy-pic. (references) |
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Screenplays | Okay, I get the picture White Tigers, Lords of Death, guys in funny suits throwing plastic explosives while poison arrows fall from the sky and the pillars of heaven shake, huh (Big Trouble in Little China; writing credit: Gary Goldman; David Z. Weinstein) My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace) Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them (Hamlet; writing credit: William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh) | |
Tongue Twisters | Yellow arrows frilled with reefed leaves are rarely light. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arrows (1974) Red Arrows (1969) Boos and Arrows (1954) Beaus and Arrows (1932) Blazing Arrows (1922) | |
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 | This large (7 by 11 mm) macular lesion displays an irregular, scalloped border, which is indistinct in some areas. In addition to hues of tan and brown, several pink areas (arrows) are present. The presence of pink colors in the macular portion of a melanocytic nevus is quite distinctive for dysplastic nevi. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Transmission electron micrograph showing developing forms of Encephalitozoon intestinalis inside a parasitophorous vacuole (red arrows) with mature spores (black arrows). microsporidiosis, parasite. Credit: CDC. |
 | Firing on attacking Japanese aircraft (marked by arrows), during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. Credit: NAVY. |  | Seven young women aiming arrows at target, with another young woman standing in front of the target, at Camp Greystone, Tuxedo, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chief Standing Bear (possibly Luther Standing Bear) full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding bow and arrows. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Annapolis, Maryland. Statue of man with quiver of arrows and partial inscription "Figurehead of U.S.S. ..." in Annapolis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Archers competition. A.L. Taylor of Potomac Archers Association and target on which he scored five bull's-eyes out of six arrows. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Red Arrows" by Mike Ambrose Commentary: "Red Arrows over Bournemouth." | "Arrows" by Gábor Suhajda Commentary: "Arrows on the road." |
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 | Typical excerpt from an action movie scene complete with flying arrows,. |
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Anonymous Miscellaneous | Envy slays itself by its own arrows. |
Blair | How blunt are all the arrows of adversity in comparison with those of guilt! |
Buddha | As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. |
| As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. | |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not by reason of any small serjeancy which anyone may hold of us by the service of rendering to us knives, arrows, or the like, have wardship of his heir or of the land which he holds of another lord by knight's service. (reference) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms a gainst a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them |
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Health | The arrows indicate positions of positive bands. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chad | The eight unknown attackers, armed with arrows, batons, and machetes, injured three passengers (one seriously), including Bidi. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. Folly! although Erasmus praised thee once In a thick volume, and all authors known, If not thy glory yet thy power have shown, Deign to take homage from thy son who hunts Through all thy maze his brothers, fool and dunce, To mend their lives and to sustain his own, However feebly be his arrows thrown, Howe'er each hide the flying weapons blunts. All-Father Folly! be it mine to raise, With lusty lung, here on his western strand With all thine offspring thronged from every land, Thyself inspiring me, the song of praise. And if too weak, I'll hire, to help me bawl, Dick Watson Gilder, gravest of us all. Aramis Loto Frope |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | On the Presidential Coat of Arms, the American eagle holds in his right talon the olive branch, while in his left he holds a bundle of arrows. |
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| "ARROWS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ARROWS" is used about 595 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 595 | 10,710 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Five Arrows Australia Fund Limited | Japan | United Arrows Ltd. |
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Expressions using "ARROWS": by arrows ♦ slings and arrows. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ARROWS": fire-arrows, Red-arrows. | |
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| Language | Translations for "ARROWS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 箭头 (Arrow, Arrowhead, arrow-head). (various references) | |
German | Pfeile. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyílzápor (storm of arrows). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 矢玉 (ammunition, arrows and bullets), 矢種 (one's supply of arrows), 矢叫び (yell made by archers when firing a volley of arrows, yell which opens a battle), 弓箭 (bows and arrows, war). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうせん (armistice, bows and arrows, hades, nether regions, truce, war), やたけび (yell made by archers when firing a volley of arrows, yell which opens a battle), やさけび (yell made by archers when firing a volley of arrows, yell which opens a battle), やだま (ammunition, arrows and bullets), やだね (one's supply of arrows). (various references) | |
Korean | 화살 (Arrow). (various references) | |
Manx | sideyragh (shooting with arrows). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arrowsay.(various references) | |
Swedish | pilar. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sagittarii, sagittariis, sagittario, sagittariorum, sagittarios, sagittarius. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 18 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut noxius est qui mittit lanceas et sagittas et mortem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As gilti he is, that sendith speres and arwes in to deth; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows, and death, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 26, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maingon sa usa ka nabuang tawo nga nagasalibay sa mga agipo, Mga udyong, ug kamatayon, |
| Croatian | Kao bjesomuènik koji baca zublje, strelice i sije smrt, |
| Danish | Som en vanvittig Mand, der udslynger Gløder, Pile og Død, |
| Dutch | Gelijk een, die zich veinst te razen, die vuursprankelen, pijlen en dodelijke dingen werpt; |
| Finnish | Kuin mieletön, joka ammuskelee tulisia surmannuolia, |
| French | Comme un furieux qui lance des flammes, Des flèches et la mort, |
| German | Wie ein Unsinniger mit Geschoß und Pfeilen schießt und tötet, |
| Hungarian | Mint a balga, a ki tüzet, nyilakat és halálos szerszámokat lövöldöz, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang menipu, lalu berkata, "Aku hanya bergurau saja," sama dengan orang gila yang bermain dengan senjata berbahaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti orang yang pura-pura main gila, tetapi dilontarkannya api dan anak panah dan segala perkakas kematian berkeliling, |
| Italian | Come un pazzo che scaglia tizzoni e frecce di morte, |
| Maori | ¶ Rite tonu ki te haurangi e makamaka ana i nga mea mura, i nga pere, i te mate, |
| Norwegian | Lik en gal mann som kaster ut brandpiler og skyter og dreper, |
| Portuguese | Como o louco que atira tições, flechas, e morte, |
| Rumanian | Ca nebunul care aruncq sqgeyi aprise wi ucigqtoare, |
| Russian | лБЛ РТЙФЧПТСАЭЙКУС РПНЕЫБООЩН ВТПУБЕФ ПЗПОШ, УФТЕМЩ Й УНЕТФШ, |
| Spanish | Como el que enloquece y arroja dardos y flechas de muerte, |
| Swedish | Lik en rasande, som slungar ut brandpilar och skjuter och dödar, |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "ARROWS": barrows, farrows, handbarrows, harrows, marrows, narrows, sparrows, wheelbarrows, yarrows. (additional references) | |
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"ARROWS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aarow, Aarrow, agrow, aprow, ardow, Arnowsky, arow, Arraw, arrewes, arrons, arrowy, Darrow, errow, farrows, orrow, urrow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ARROWS" (pronounced a"rōz) |
| 4 | a" r ō z | barrows. |
| 3 | -r ō z | borrows, bureaus, heroes, heros, intros, micros, narrows, pedros, pharaohs, sorrows, sparrows, superheroes, tiros, wheelbarrows, zeroes, zeros. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: arrow, roars, sowar. | |
-2 letters: oars, orra, osar, raws, roar, rows, soar, sora, wars. | |
-3 letters: ars, oar, ora, ors, ras, raw, row, saw, sow, war, was, wos. | |
-4 letters: ar, as, aw, or, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: barrows, farrows, harrows, marrows, narrows, sparrow, yarrows. | |
+2 letters: artworks, crowbars, earworms, forswear, forwards, ragworts, sparrows, starwort, warhorse, warlords, warriors, warworks, wooraris. | |
+3 letters: airpowers, armyworms, drawbores, farmworks, foreswear, forewarns, forswears, hairworks, hairworms, harrowers, ironwares, narrowest, overdraws, overwarms, overwears, rackworks, roadworks, rosewater, scarecrow, shoreward, spearwort, starworts, swearword, wardrobes, wardrooms, warerooms, warhorses, warpowers, workfares, yardworks. | |
+4 letters: afterwords, arrowheads, arrowroots, arrowwoods, arrowworms, breastwork, broadsword, caseworker, cornerways, courseware, drawnworks, earthworks, earthworms, foreswears, forwarders, forwardest, frameworks, frontwards, heartworms, marrowfats, masterwork, narrowness, northwards, overwaters, paperworks, scarecrows, shorewards, spearworts, sportswear, starflower, swearwords, vaporwares, warehouser, warlordism, warmongers, warrantors, waterworks, worrywarts. | |
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