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bend

Definitions


[bɛnd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle
(e.g: the wire has to be bent back tightly)

- (of a person) incline the body downwards from the vertical
(e.g: she bent down and yanked out the flex)

- force or be forced to submit
(e.g: they want to bend me to their will)

- direct (one's attention or energies) to a task
(e.g: Eric bent all his efforts to persuading them to donate some blankets)

- attach (a sail or cable) by means of a knot
(e.g: sailors were bending sails to the spars)


Phrases:
- bend one's elbow
- bend someone's ear
- round the bend

Origin:
Old English bendan ‘put in bonds, tension a bow by means of a string’, of Germanic origin; related to band


[bɛnd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit
(e.g: the van screeched round a bend)

- a curved or angled part of something
(e.g: make a bend in the wire)

- a kind of knot used to join two ropes together, or to tie a rope to another object, e.g. a carrick bend

- decompression sickness, especially in divers


Phrases:
- bend one's elbow
- bend someone's ear
- round the bend

Origin:
Old English bendan ‘put in bonds, tension a bow by means of a string’, of Germanic origin; related to band


[bɛnd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an ordinary in the form of a broad diagonal stripe from top left (dexter chief) to bottom right (sinister base) of a shield or part of one
(e.g: a narrow bend, either dexter or sinister, lying across the other charges on a shield)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French bande, Old French bende ‘flat strip’




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