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| bend |
| 1. v. 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. v. (intransitive) To become curved. |
| Look at the trees bending in the wind. |
| 3. v. To cause to change direction. |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To change direction. |
| The road bends to the right |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself. |
| 6. v. (intransitive usually with "down") To stoop. |
| He bent down to pick up the pieces. |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. |
| 8. v. To force to submit. |
| They bent me to their will. |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To submit. |
| I am bending to my desire to eat junk food. |
| 10. v. To apply to a task or purpose. |
| He bent the company's resources to gaining market share. |
| 11. v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose. |
| He bent to the goal of gaining market share. |
| 12. v. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. |
| 13. v. (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. v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note. |
| You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure. |
| 15. v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing. |
| 16. n. A curve. |
| There's a sharp bend in the road ahead. |
| 17. n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. |
| 18. n. (in the medicine, 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. |
| 19. n. (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 |
| 20. n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. |
| 21. n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise. |
| 22. n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind. |
| 23. n. (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. |
| 24. n. (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 |
| 25. n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another. |
