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Bend

noun

1.

A circular segment of a curve. Synonyms: crook, turn, twist. "A crook in the path"

2.

Movement that causes the formation of a curve. Synonym: bending.

3.

Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.). Synonym: curve.

4.

An angular or rounded shape made by folding. Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication. "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"

5.

A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range.

6.

Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left. Synonym: bend dexter.

verb

(past & past part. bent; pres. part. bending)

1.

Form a curve. Synonym: flex.

2.

Change direction.

3.

Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form. Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist. "Twist the dough into a braid" , "The strong man could turn an iron bar"

4.

Bend one's back forward from the waist on down. Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop. "She bowed before the Queen" , "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

5.

Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest. Synonyms: deflect, turn away.

6.

Bend a joint. Synonym: flex. "Bend your knees"

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"Bend" Quotes from Famous Books

... disorder, fearful of rebellion. But to Isaac Hecker, the only external note which deeply attracted him was that of universal brotherhood. If he were to bow his knee with joy to Jesus Christ, it would be because all, in heaven and earth or hell, should one day bend in union ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... understand honour; how should it? The Caucus is chiefly made up of men who sand their sugar, put alum in their bread, forge bayonets and girders which bend like willow-wands, send bad calico to India, and insure vessels at Lloyd's which they know will go to the bottom before they have been ...

— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... wanted to know. This young man understood how to bend the will of others, even the will of a sick mind, to his own desires. The little silent scene he had watched had lasted just the length of time it had taken the detective to walk through the room and hold out his hand ...

— The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study • Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner

... equal to the burthen suddenly descending upon its shoulders. Instead of despair there had been constancy. Instead of distracted counsels there had been heroic union of heart and hand. Rather than bend to Rome and grovel to Philip, it had taken its sovereignty in its hands, offered it successively, without a thought of self-aggrandizement on the part of its children, to the crowns of France and Great ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... should not an old man be merry too, when the great sea is at play with those little children? I delight, also, to follow in the wake of a pleasure-party of young men and girls strolling along the beach after an early supper at the Point. Here, with handkerchiefs at nose, they bend over a heap of eel-grass entangled in which is a dead skate so oddly accoutred with two legs and a long tail that they mistake him for a drowned animal. A few steps farther the ladies scream, and the gentlemen make ready to protect them against a young ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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