Kowtow vs Submit - What's the difference?
kowtow | submit |
To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
To bow very deeply.
(figuratively) To act in a very submissive manner.
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
* '>citation
(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
In lang=en terms the difference between kowtow and submit
is that kowtow is to bow very deeply while submit is or to enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.As verbs the difference between kowtow and submit
is that kowtow is to kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground while submit is to yield or give way to another.As a noun kowtow
is the act of kowtowing.kowtow
English
Alternative forms
* kotowVerb
(en verb)See also
* prostratesubmit
English
Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.