Word Finder - bend

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A curve.

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There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.

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Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

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(in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.

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A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.

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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.

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Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

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In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

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Hard, indurated clay; bind.

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(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.

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(in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.

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the midship bends

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A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

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To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

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Don’t bend your knees.

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To become curved.

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Look at the trees bending in the wind.

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To cause to change direction.

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To change direction.

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The road bends to the right

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To be inclined; to direct itself.

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(usually with "down") To stoop.

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He bent down to pick up the pieces.

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To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

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To force to submit.

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They bent me to their will.

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To submit.

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I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.

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To apply to a task or purpose.

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He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.

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To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

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He bent to the goal of gaining market share.

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To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

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To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

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Bend the sail to the yard.

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To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

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You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.

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To swing the body when rowing.

Light and dark seemed to bend to avoid him, leaving a haze around his body.

Nothing could bend that cast iron will.

Every part of his body ached and he could only bend his elbow halfway.

With each bend of the highway they found breathtaking views.

A cannon ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse.

Nanotechnology will give us metals that don't bend, or bend and yet remember their original shape.

Despite the urgent efforts of Joseph Bonaparte and Talleyrand to bend the First Consul, he refused to listen to these proposals.

But the sultan could not bend his pride to suffer foreign intervention in a matter that touched his honour, and the return of Napoleon from Elba threw the Eastern Question into the background.

She must have hiked down the back way and met up with him down at the bend in the road, below where our Jeep is parked.

I can make them bend the ball like I bend a spoon.

As they watched, three Indians rode around a bend in the gully and passed below them.

He rose and began pacing the room as Dean stopped by and proceeded to bend Dean's ear how this was the day he and Paulette were to receive a firm offer on the Lucky Pup property.

Marillier sacrifice was, at its origin, essentially a magical rite - the liberation by the effusion of a victim's blood of a magical force which was to bend the gods to the will of man; from this arose, under the influence of cult of the dead, the gift theory of sacrifice.

She can shut her eyes and bend her arms and sit down and stand up straight.

Between the western bend of the Cavalla river and the coast there is a somewhat broken mountain range with altitudes of from 2000 to 5000 ft.

Taran's skin crawled with the charge of magic in the confined chamber, and he watched Memon bend over Rissa.

He was hungry after the stimulation of Jessi's refusal to bend to his will.

The driveway had to be around that next bend.

It is pleasantly situated in the upper valley of the Wye, in a bend of the river on its right bank below the confluence of its tributary the Irfon.

Bend your arms with the right raised slightly higher than the left.

The road began to widen and after a sharp bend she came into the tiny town indicated on the map.

The bones of the legs and feet are most susceptible to stress fractures, which occur when muscle strains or contractions make bones bend.

At this age, it is normal for children to start challenging their parents, testing the limits and rules to see how far they can bend or break them.

Dean smiled at a pair of climbers rounding a bend in the trail and waited for them to pass before responding.

Her guards watched in surprise as Sirian and his horse disappeared around the bend.

Below the Siamese Shan town of Chieng Sen the river takes its first great easterly bend to Luang Prabang, being joined by some important tributaries.

With their moderately soft, flexible pellicles, swimming Spirostomum often bend around bits of algae and other obstacles they encounter.

A third style, the Charleston bending brace, is used at night to bend the spine in the opposite direction.

As you bend forward, reach your arms to the ground, or to your legs if the ground is out of reach.

Sit with your knees folded under you, your feet under your buttocks, and bend forward, letting your head come to rest on the ground.

Be sure to sit up straight, then lift your left arm straight up in the air, bend the elbow and bring your hand down between your shoulder blades; extend your right arm and fold it from your waist up towards the shoulder blades.

If the hamstrings are tight, bend the knees to allow the spine to lengthen fully.

Bend the knees and hips, keeping the shins on the floor.

As you bend, twist your left elbow to rest on the outside of your right knee or thigh.

Bend the knees, bringing the soles of the feet parallel to each other on the mat, close to the buttocks.

For instance, if the curve is of S-form, the point of danger is when the train enters the contra-flexure, and it is not an easy matter to assign the best superelevation at all points throughout the double bend.

The town presents a picturesque appearance from the Nile, which at this point makes a sharp bend.

The north wall, leaving the city circuit at a point near the modern Observatory, ran from north-east to south-west near the present road to the Peiraeus, until it reached the Peiraeus walls a little to the east of their northernmost bend.

Marco Polo in the latter part of the 13th century, and Friar John of Montecorvino, afterwards archbishop of Cambaluc, in the beginning of the 14th, speak of the descendants of Prester John as holding territory under the great khan in a locality which can be identified with the plain of KukuKhotan, north of the great bend of the Yellow river and about 280 m.

In the vicinity is the Karolinen canal, which cuts off a bend in the Danube between Lauingen and Dillingen.

Corps (Thielemann), 23,900, in the bend of the river Meuse, headquarters Ciney, and disposed in the area Dinant-Huy-Ciney.

It is picturesquely situated on an eminence, two sides of which are touched by the river Nene, which here makes a deep bend.

In some parts, especially (in Douglas and Grant counties) within the Big Bend of the Columbia, the plain is frequently cut by coulees, or abandoned river channels, some of them 500 to 600 ft.

Nogi and Kaulbars stood fast, facing each other on the west front; after the arrival of the general reserve, Nogi was able to prolong his line to the north and eventually to bend it inwards towards the Russian line of retreat.

Jerome vainly sought to bend his brother's will in an interview at Alexandria.

The sacrifices and offerings were acknowledgments of divine bounty and means used to insure its continuance; the Arab was the " slave " of his god and paid him tribute, as slaves used to do to their masters, or subjects to their lords; and the free Bedouin, trained in the solitude of the desert to habits of absolute self-reliance, knew no master except his god, and acknowledged no other will before which his own should bend.

Darvaz, a small vassal state of Bokhara, is situated on the Panj, where it makes its sharp bend westwards, and is emphatically a mountainous region, agriculture being possible only in the lower parts of the valleys.

The Sierra Madre Oriental consists of a broken chain of ranges extending along the eastern margin of the plateau from the great bend in the Rio Grande south-eastward to about the 19th parallel.

It is served by the Michigan Central and the Pere Marquette railways, by electric interurban railway to South Bend, Indiana, and by a steamboat line to Chicago.

The horns are somewhat erect and spiral, with an outward bend.