| inglese > italiano | |
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| bend | |
| 1. sost. curva | |
| 2. sost. (araldica) banda: nell'araldica inglese occupa un terzo dello scudo se porta dei carichi e solo un quinto se è di smalto uniforme senza carichi | |
| bend fusil: banda costituita da cinque fusi interi e due mezzi accollati, ogni fuso posto in sbarra | |
| 3. verb. curvare, piegare | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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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. subst. A curve. | |
| There's a sharp bend in the road ahead. | |
| 17. subst. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. | |
| 18. subst. (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. subst. (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. subst. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. | |
| 21. subst. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise. | |
| 22. subst. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind. | |
| 23. subst. (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. subst. (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. subst. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| flettersi | |
| 1. v. (reflexive) to bend, bow, sag | |
| 2. v. (reflexive) to inflect | |
