"bow wave" meaning in English

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      "form": "bow waves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "bow wave (plural bow waves)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1942, Neville Shute, chapter 11, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co",
          "text": "But in the half light of dawn, at about half past four, a destroyer came towards them from the west, throwing a deep, feathery bow wave of white foam aside as she cut through the water, bearing down on them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 April 20, “Network News: MPs pursue updates on progress of National Rail Contracts”, in RAIL, number 955, page 17",
          "text": "\"They are not able to service every railway contract going to the market at the same time. It creates an artificial bow-wave of work and in some cases, like TransPennine, the nature of the infrastructure work means we want some continuity,\" he said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wave that forms at the bow of a ship as it moves through the water, and defines the outer limits of the ship's wake."
      ],
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          "bow",
          "bow"
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          "ship",
          "ship"
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          "wake",
          "wake"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "word": "头波"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "word": "弓形波"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "bovbølge"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Bugwelle"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "word": "piha"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
          "word": "pihapiha"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bow wave"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bow wave"
}

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    {
      "form": "bow waves",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1942, Neville Shute, chapter 11, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co",
          "text": "But in the half light of dawn, at about half past four, a destroyer came towards them from the west, throwing a deep, feathery bow wave of white foam aside as she cut through the water, bearing down on them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 April 20, “Network News: MPs pursue updates on progress of National Rail Contracts”, in RAIL, number 955, page 17",
          "text": "\"They are not able to service every railway contract going to the market at the same time. It creates an artificial bow-wave of work and in some cases, like TransPennine, the nature of the infrastructure work means we want some continuity,\" he said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wave that forms at the bow of a ship as it moves through the water, and defines the outer limits of the ship's wake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bow",
          "bow"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "wake",
          "wake"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bow wave"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "word": "头波"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "word": "弓形波"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bovbølge"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bugwelle"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "word": "piha"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a wave coming off the bow of a ship as it moves through the water",
      "word": "pihapiha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bow wave"
}