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Take A Bow

Definitions: Take A Bow

Take A Bow

Verb

1. Acknowledge praise or accept credit; "They finally took a bow for what they did".

2. Acknowledge applause by inclining the head, as of an artist after a performance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Take A Bow

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Take a bow, the night is over ("Take A Bow"; performing artist: Madonna)

Paint the town take a bow ("Then The Morning Comes"; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Movie/TV Titles

Baby Take a Bow (1934)

Song Titles

Take A Bow (performing artist: Madonna)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Take A Bow

DomainTitle

Books

  • Shebeens take a bow! : a celebration of South Africa's Shebeen lifestyle (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Shirley Temple Gift Set (Heidi, Curly Top, Baby Take a Bow) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Take A Bow

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

take a bow

46

baby take a bow

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Take A Bow

Language Translations for "take a bow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

sich verneigen (bow, curtsy, to take a bow), sich verbeugen (bow, to take a bow), sich für Beifall bedanken (to take a bow). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aketay aay owbay.(various references)

   

Thai

  

โค้งให้กับ, ยอมรับ (countenance, hold by, own, receive, take). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Take A Bow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-k-o-t-w"

-3 letters: abate, awake, awoke, tweak.

-4 letters: abet, bake, bate, beak, beat, beta, boat, bota, kata, keto, taka, take, teak, toea, toke, twae, wake, weak, weka, woke.

-5 letters: aba, abo, ate, awa, awe, baa, bat, bet, boa, bot, bow, eat, eta, kab, kae, kat, kea, koa, kob, oak, oat, obe, oka, oke, owe, tab, tae, tao, taw, tea, tew, toe, tow, twa, two, wab, wae, wat, web, wet, woe, wok, wot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Take A Bow


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 6B 65      41      42 6F 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000010 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006B 0065      0041      0042 006F 0077

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

546777712352368189

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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