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* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|кесонна болест|p}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|sukeltajantauti}}
* French: {{t|fr|accident de décompression|m}}, {{t+|fr|maladie des caissons|f}}
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|doença de descompressão|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|dykarsjuka|c}}, {{t|sv|tryckfallssjuka|c}}
* Thai: {{t|th|โรคน้ำหนีบ}}, {{t|th|น้ำหนีบ}}
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Revision as of 13:52, 13 September 2021

See also: Bend

English

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A bend in a river

Etymology

From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), 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”). More at band.

Pronunciation

Verb

bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended)

  1. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
    If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.
    Don’t bend your knees.
  2. (intransitive) To become curved.
    Look at the trees bending in the wind.
  3. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
  4. (intransitive) To change direction.
    The road bends to the right.
  5. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
  6. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
    He bent down to pick up the pieces.
  7. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  8. (transitive) To force to submit.
    They bent me to their will.
  9. (intransitive) To submit.
    I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
  10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
    He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
    • 1677 June 28, William Temple, “An Essay upon the Cure of Gout by Moxa. […]”, in Miscellanea. The First Part. [...], 3rd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], and Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1691, →OCLC, page 192:
      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, [...]
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  11. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
    He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
  12. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  13. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
    Bend the sail to the yard.
  14. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
    You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
  15. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.

Derived terms

terms derived from bend (verb)

Translations

to swing the body when rowing
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Noun

bend (plural bends)

Azure a bend or, the arms of Scrope
  1. A curve.
    • 1968, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues
      I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
    There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
  2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
    • 2012, Percy W. Blandford, Practical Knots and Ropework, page 67:
      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.
  3. (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
    A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
  4. (heraldry) 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.
    • 1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 63-64:
      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.
  5. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
  7. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  8. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
  9. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
    the midship bends
  10. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

Derived terms

terms derived from bend (noun)

Translations

decompression sickness — see decompression sickness
nautical: frames or ribs that form the ship's body
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Related terms

References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *band (“drop”). Compare Phrygian βεδυ (bedu, “water”), Sanskrit बिन्दु (bindú, “drop”), Middle Irish banna, baina (“drop”) and possibly Latin Fōns Bandusiae.

Noun

bend m

  1. pond, water reservoir
  2. idle or provocative words
  3. servant, henchman
Related terms

Northern Kurdish

Noun

bend ?

  1. slave

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From benda, bende (“to bend”).

Noun

bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda)

  1. a bend
  2. a bent position
  3. a butt on a thick rope

Participle

bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende)

  1. (deprecated template usage) past participle of benda

Verb

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  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of benda

References

Old Norse

Participle

bend

  1. inflection of bendr:
    1. strong feminine nominative singular
    2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

Verb

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  1. second-person singular active imperative of benda

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bend.

Pronunciation

Noun

bend m (plural s)

  1. (music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English band.

Pronunciation

Noun

bȅnd m (Cyrillic spelling бе̏нд)

  1. (music) band (group of musicians)

Declension

Declension of bend
singular plural
nominative bȅnd bendovi / bendi
genitive benda bendova / benda
dative bendu bendovima / bendima
accusative bȅnd bendove / bende
vocative bȅnde bendovi / bendi
locative bendu bendovima / bendima
instrumental bendom bendovima / bendima
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