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What (who) is bend - definition
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Bend (disambiguation); Bend (album)
Bend
·noun Hard, indurated clay; bind.
II. Bend ·noun A Band.
III. Bend ·noun Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
IV. Bend ·vi To be inclined; to be directed.
V. Bend ·vi To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
VI. Bend ·vi To jut over; to Overhang.
VII. Bend ·noun ·same·as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
VIII. Bend ·vt To apply closely or with interest; to Direct.
IX. Bend ·noun The best quality of sole leather; a butt. ·see Butt.
X. Bend ·vt To cause to yield; to render submissive; to Subdue.
XI. Bend ·noun A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
XII. Bend ·vi To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to Bow.
XIV. Bend ·vt 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.
XV. Bend ·noun 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.
XVI. Bend ·noun 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.
XVII. Bend ·vt 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.
bend
I
n.
1) to make a bend (the river makes a bend)
2) a horseshoe; sharp; slight bend
3) a knee bend
4) (misc.) (colloq.) (BE) round the bend ('mentally unsound')
II
v.
1) (D; intr., tr.) to bend to (the road bends to the right; she cannot bend them to her will)
2) (D; tr.) to bend into (she bent the bar into the right shape)
bend
I. v. a.
1.
Curve, crook, bow, incurvate, flex, make crooked, deflect, draw.
2.
Direct, turn, incline.
3.
Exert, apply (earnestly), direct (attentively).
4.
[Usually in the passive.] Incline, determine, resolve, set.
5.
Subdue, cause to yield, bring to submission, make submissive, persuade, influence, mould, dispose, bias.
6.
(Naut.) Fasten, make fast.
II. v. n.
1.
Crook deflect, deviate, swerve, diverge, incline, be crooked, be bent, be curved.
2.
Lean, incline, turn, deflect, deviate, diverge.
3.
Overhang, jut out, jut, beetle.
4.
Bow, stoop, lower or lour, hang low.
5.
Yield, submit, bow, stoop, kneel, give way.
6.
Condescend, stoop, deign, be gracious.
III. n.
1.
Curve, curvity, curvature, flexure, angle, elbow, crook, incurvation, turn, turning, arcuation.
2.
Bight, coil.
Examples of use of bend
1. Bend it like Beckham (2002) Strapline: Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can bend a ball like Beckham?
2. Many war–brokers bend their constitutional roles.
3. It‘s easier to block a reservoir than to build one." Researcher Seager suggests that humans ought to bend more to nature than trying to bend nature.
4. McBride, 20, Bend, Ore. – Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew I.
5. The "Quilts of Gee‘s Bend" were nothing like Great–grandma‘s.