Bend
[bend] or [bɛnd]
Definition
(noun.) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.).
(noun.) diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left.
(noun.) a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range.
(noun.) a circular segment of a curve; 'a bend in the road'; 'a crook in the path'.
(verb.) change direction; 'The road bends'.
(verb.) form a curve; 'The stick does not bend'.
Inputed by Elisabeth--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
(v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
(v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
(v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
(v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
(v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
(v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
(v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
(v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
(n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
(n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
(n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
(n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
(n.) A band.
(n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Curve, crook, bow, incurvate, make crooked.[2]. Direct, turn towards, incline towards.[3]. Exert, apply earnestly, direct attentively.[4]. Subdue, cause to yield, bring to submission, make submissive.[5]. (Naut.) Fasten, make fast.
v. n. [1]. Crook, be crooked, be bent, be curved.[2]. Lean, incline, turn.
n. [1]. Curve, curvity, curvature, flexure, angle, elbow, crook, incurvation, ARCUATION.[2]. Bight, coil.
Checked by Gerald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Curve, deviate, incline, tend, swerve, diverge, mold, persuade, influence,bias, dispose, direct, lower, subordinate_to, lean, deflect, bow, condescend,yield, stoop, submit
ANT:Proceed, continue, extend, advance, stand, stiffen, break, crush, resist
Typist: Mabel
Definition
n. in leather half a butt cut lengthwise.
v.t. to curve or bow: to make crooked: to turn or incline—mostly in passive to be inclined to towards to be given to: to subdue: to direct to a certain point: to apply closely to strain to nerve one's self to: (naut.) to tie fasten make fast.—v.i. to be crooked or curved: to incline in any direction: to stoop: to lean: to bow in submission (with to before towards):—pa.p. bend′ed or bent.—n. a curve or crook: the bent part of anything; (her.) one of the nine ordinaries consisting of the space contained between two parallel lines crossing the shield diagonally from dexter chief to sinister base. It is said to occupy a fifth part of the shield unless charged when it occupies a third part—its diminutives are the Bendlet Cotise and Ribbon.—Bend sinister an occasionally occurring variety of the bend drawn from sinister chief to dexter base.
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- And with that I commenced to bend him back across my knee and tighten my grip upon his throat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He coughed and spat and listened to the heavy machine gun hammer again below the bend. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What Makes a Stick Seem to Bend in Water? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I only hear of you in town as active and wilful, quick to originate, hasty to lead, but slow to persuade, and hard to bend. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is a chain of my hair and a talisman attached to keep you from harm, so bend your head, my knight, and I will give it to you. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rinaldi bent it more. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was bent on writing to Ponsonby. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Boultby heard and deliberated with bent brow and protruded under lip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He bent down so low to frown at his boots, that he was able to rub the calves of his legs in the pause he made. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Here, bending towards Mr. Pickwick, he whispered in a deep, hollow voice, 'A Buff ball, Sir, will take place in Birmingham to-morrow evening. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was bending forward when I saw it first; and when I spoke, it darted away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The greater the refractive power of the lens, the greater the bending, and the nearer the principal focus to the lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The bending or deviation of light in its passage from one substance to another is called refraction. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They sit down, Mr. Bagnet as if he had no power of bending himself, except at the hips, for that purpose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The aneroid barometer is an air-tight box whose top is made of a thin metallic disk which bends inward or outward according to the pressure of the atmosphere. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Analytical Chemist again bends and whispers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Rosa bends down on the footstool at my Lady's feet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When we hold a stick partly in the water, it looks as though the stick bends just where it enters the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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