bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕnd
ipa: /bɛnd/
ipa: /bɪnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: bends
Etymology: From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, tie”).
Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to bind, band, bond.
Senses: examples: text: There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
text: I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
ref: 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues:
text: I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A curve.
examples: text: A simpler version of the common bend with its ends in the same direction is used to join binder twine in a hay baling machine.
ref: 2012, Percy W. Blandford, Practical Knots and Ropework, page 67:
glosses: Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
examples: text: A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scrope invoked the High Court of Chivalry to decide which of them had the right to bear these arms. Chaucer gave evidence before the court. In the end the arms were awarded to Scrope, and Grosvenor was ordered to difference with a bordure Argent. This he disdained to do, and being highly dissatisfied with the verdict he appealed to Richard II who altered the decision of the court by refusing to allow the bend to Grosvenor at all! Grosvenor then adopted a garb, or sheaf of corn.
ref: 1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 63–64:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: bendlet
cost
garter
riband
baton
scrape
glosses: One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
examples: text: Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
ref: 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, act 1, scene 3:
glosses: Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
glosses: In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Hard, indurated clay; bind.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
examples: text: the midship bends
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from bend (noun)
word: above one's bend
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word: adjustable bend
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word: alpine butterfly bend
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word: anchor bend
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word: around the bend
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word: Ashley's bend
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word: becket bend
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word: bend dexter
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word: Bendgate
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word: bendless
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word: bendlet
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word: bendly
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word: bendopnea
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word: bend sinister
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word: bendsome
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word: bendwise
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word: bendy
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word: butterfly bend
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word: carrick bend
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word: double sheet bend
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word: East Bend
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word: Flemish bend
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word: Fort Bend County
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word: genderbend
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word: Great Bend
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word: Grecian bend
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word: hairpin bend
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word: harness bend
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word: heaving line bend
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word: Hunter's bend
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word: in bend
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word: J-bend
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word: L-bend
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word: North Bend
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word: offset overhand bend
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word: per bend
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word: per bend sinister
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word: racking bend
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word: return bend
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word: ring bend
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word: riverbend
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word: Rosendahl bend
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word: round the bend
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word: sagbend
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word: S-bend
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word: sheet bend
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word: sneck-bend
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word: South Bend
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word: string bend
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word: Tailem Bend
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word: U-bend
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word: upbend
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word: West Bend
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word: Z-bend
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word: zeppelin bend
Related terms: bent