bend
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *bandijaną
Proto-West Germanic *bandijan
Old English bendan
Middle English benden
English bend
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bent
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bended
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: bended
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
form: bends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
Don’t bend your knees.
gloss: To become curved.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Look at the trees bending in the wind.
gloss: To cause to change direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bend thine ear to supplication.
Towards Coventry bend we our course.
bending her eyes on the floor
gloss: To change direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The road bends to the right.
gloss: To be inclined; to direct itself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to whom our vows and wishes bend
gloss: To stoop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: He bent down to pick up the pieces.
gloss: To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Each to his great Father bends.
gloss: To force to submit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They bent me to their will.
Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after
Except she bend her humour, shall be assured
To taste of too.
Leviathan: You cannot conceive of a galaxy that bends to your will.
Leviathan: Every creature, every nation, every planet we discovered became our tools. We were above the concerns of lesser species.
gloss: To submit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
gloss: To apply to a task or purpose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
And I remember one great Miniſter that confeſt to me, when he fell into one of his uſual Fits of the Gout, He was no longer able to bend his mind or thoughts to any Publick Buſineſs, [...]
when to mischief mortals bend their will
gloss: To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
gloss: To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Palladius did not lie, although he might have bent the facts a bit and even passed over in silence whatever might not have benefited his client's cause.
gloss: To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bend the sail to the yard.
gloss: To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
gloss: To swing the body when rowing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A curve.
pos: noun
examples: There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
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.
gloss: Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend.
gloss: In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
pos: noun
gloss: Hard, indurated clay; bind.
pos: noun
gloss: The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: the midship bends
gloss: A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
pos: noun
Synonyms: bend
bow
courb
curb
curl
curve
crook
flex
incurvate
Antonyms: straighten
rectify
unbend
uncoil
uncurl
unfold
unroll
Related words: bent
Derived words: backbend
bendability
bendable
bend down
bender
bend it like Beckham
bend one off
bend one's elbow
bend out of shape
bend over
bend over backwards
bend somebody's ear
bend someone's ear
bend someone's will
bend the brain
bend the knee
bend the rules
bend the truth
bend to one's will
bend to someone's will
brain-bending
databend
debend
disbend
genderbend
inbend
mind-bending
on bended knee
overbend
prebend
racebend
rebend
unbend
upbend
above one's bend
adjustable bend
alpine butterfly bend
anchor bend
around the bend
Ashley's bend
becket bend
bend dexter
Bendgate
bendless
bendlet
bendly
Bend of Islands
bendopnea
bend sinister
bendsome
bendwise
bendy
Boundary Bend
butterfly bend
carrick bend
double sheet bend
East Bend
Flemish bend
Fort Bend County
Great Bend
Grecian bend
hairpin bend
harness bend
heaving line bend
Horseshoe Bend
Hunter's bend
in bend
J-bend
L-bend
North Bend
offset overhand bend
per bend
per bend sinister
racking bend
return bend
ring bend
River Bend
riverbend
Rosendahl bend
round the bend
sagbend
S-bend
sheet bend
sneck-bend
South Bend
string bend
Tailem Bend
U-bend
West Bend
Z-bend
zeppelin bend
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: buig
lang: Albanian
word: ep
lang: Albanian
word: lakoj
lang: Albanian
word: përkul
lang: Aleut
word: kahngil
lang: Arabic
word: ثَنَى
roman: ṯanā
lang: Armenian
word: ծռել
roman: cṙel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bükmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əymək
lang: Belarusian
word: згіна́ць
roman: zhinácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: гнуць
roman: hnucʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: извивам
roman: izvivam
lang: Bulgarian
word: превивам
roman: previvam
lang: Chechen
word: сатта
roman: satta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 彎 /弯
roman: wān
lang: Cornish
word: plegya
lang: Czech
word: ohnout
lang: Danish
word: bøje
lang: Dutch
word: buigen
lang: Dutch
word: plooien
lang: Esperanto
word: kurbigi
lang: Esperanto
word: fleksi
lang: Esperanto
word: klini
lang: Finnish
word: taivuttaa
lang: French
word: courber
lang: French
word: tordre
lang: Galician
word: curvar
lang: Georgian
word: მოხრა
roman: moxra
lang: German
word: beugen
lang: Greek
word: λυγίζω
roman: lygízo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κάμπτω
roman: kámptō
lang: Greek
word: καμπύλλω
roman: kampúllō
lang: Hebrew
word: כופף
roman: koféf
lang: Hindi
word: झुकाव
roman: jhukāv
lang: Hindi
word: प्रवृत्ति
roman: pravŕtti
lang: Hungarian
word: hajlít
lang: Hungarian
word: görbít
lang: Hungarian
word: kanyarít
lang: Icelandic
word: beygja
lang: Ingrian
word: painaa
lang: Ingrian
word: painuttaa
lang: Ingush
word: соттае
roman: sottaje
lang: Italian
word: curvare
lang: Italian
word: piegare
lang: Japanese
word: 曲げる
roman: mageru
lang: Korean
word: 구부리다
roman: guburida
lang: Central Kurdish
word: چەماندن
roman: çemandin
lang: Latgalian
word: salīkt
lang: Latgalian
word: puorlīkt
lang: Latin
word: flectō
lang: Latin
word: sinuō
lang: Latin
word: curvō
lang: Latvian
word: saliekt
lang: Lithuanian
word: sulenkti
lang: Malayalam
word: വളയ്ക്കുക
roman: vaḷaykkuka
lang: Māori
word: ngawaki
lang: Māori
word: whakapiko
lang: Māori
word: whatiwhati
lang: Māori
word: whakariroi
lang: Middle English
word: croken
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: cuēloā
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: cuelpachoā
lang: Norwegian
word: bøye
lang: Occitan
word: corbar
lang: Occitan
word: plegar
lang: Old English
word: bīeġan
lang: Persian
word: خماندن
roman: xamândan
lang: Polish
word: zgiąć
lang: Polish
word: zginać
lang: Polish
word: giąć
lang: Portuguese
word: dobrar
lang: Portuguese
word: curvar
lang: Romanian
word: îndoi
lang: Romanian
word: curba
lang: Russian
word: сгиба́ть
roman: sgibátʹ
lang: Russian
word: изгиба́ть
roman: izgibátʹ
lang: Russian
word: гнуть
roman: gnutʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: crom
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: lùb
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: saviti
lang: Sikkimese
word: ཀུག
roman: kug
lang: Slovene
word: upogniti
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: gibaś
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: chyliś
lang: Spanish
word: cimbrar
lang: Spanish
word: cimbrear
lang: Spanish
word: escarzar
lang: Spanish
word: cimblar
lang: Spanish
word: doblegar
lang: Spanish
word: redoblegar
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: beni
lang: Swahili
word: pinda
lang: Swahili
word: kunja
lang: Swedish
word: böja
lang: Tày
word: bjắt
lang: Thai
word: งอ
roman: ngɔɔ
lang: Turkish
word: bükmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوكمك
roman: bükmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اكمك
roman: eğmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: згина́ти
roman: zhynáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: гну́ти
roman: hnúty
lang: Vietnamese
word: uốn cong
lang: Walloon
word: ployî
lang: Welsh
word: plygu
lang: Yiddish
word: בייגן
roman: beygn