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Bend   /bɛnd/   Listen
Bend

noun
1.
A circular segment of a curve.  Synonyms: crook, turn, twist.  "A crook in the path"
2.
Movement that causes the formation of a curve.  Synonym: bending.
3.
Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.).  Synonym: curve.
4.
An angular or rounded shape made by folding.  Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication.  "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"
5.
A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range.
6.
Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left.  Synonym: bend dexter.
verb
(past & past part. bent; pres. part. bending)
1.
Form a curve.  Synonym: flex.  Antonym: straighten.
2.
Change direction.
3.
Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.  Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist.  "Twist the dough into a braid" , "The strong man could turn an iron bar"  Antonym: unbend.
4.
Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.  Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop.  "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
5.
Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.  Synonyms: deflect, turn away.
6.
Bend a joint.  Synonym: flex.  "Bend your knees"



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"Bend" Quotes from Famous Books



... "And the bend of the river glittering there! Here, a little more this way, and you will see it as I do. The moon is not at the full yet; the river will be like this for some ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

... success. If such is any proof, I felt elated as well as satisfied when I came away. Aunt Janet's Second Sight on the subject was comforting, though grim, and in a measure disconcerting. When I was saying good-night she asked me to bend down my head. As I did so, she laid her hands on it and passed them all over it. I heard her ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... refraction at that particular point, and leading us to think that the diameter is greater at that extremity. We may easily undeceive ourselves if we watch the movements of the vibrio, when we will readily recognize the bend, especially as it is brought into the vertical plane passing over the rest of the filament. In this way we will see the bright spot, THE ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various

... and that 'the said John [had] maryed Mary, daughter and heiress of Robert Arden, of Wilmcote, gent.' In consideration of these titles to honour, Garter declared that he assigned to Shakespeare this shield, viz.: 'Gold, on a bend sable, a spear of the first, and for his crest or cognizance a falcon, his wings displayed argent, standing on a wreath of his colours, supporting a spear gold steeled as aforesaid.' In the margin of this draft-grant ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... of the Hamran Arabs in 1861 during my exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia; and upon the first occasion that I was introduced to an African male elephant, the animal was standing at the point of a long sandbank which had during high water formed the bed of the river, where a sudden bend had hollowed out the inner side of the curve and thrown up a vast mass of sand upon the opposite shore. This bank was a succession of terraces, each about 4 feet high, formed at intervals during the changes in the level of the retreating stream. ...
— Wild Beasts and their Ways • Sir Samuel W. Baker


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