bend

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, 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”). Related to bind, band, bond. === Pronunciation === enPR: bĕnd, IPA(key): /bɛnd/ (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /bɪnd/ Rhymes: -ɛnd === Verb === bend (third-person singular simple present bends, present participle bending, simple past and past participle bent or (archaic) bended) (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. Synonym: flex (intransitive) To become curved. Synonym: flex (transitive) To cause to change direction. (intransitive) To change direction. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. (transitive) To force to submit. (intransitive) To submit. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === bend (plural bends) A curve. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines. (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. (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. Coordinate terms: bendlet, cost, garter, riband, baton, scrape (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind. (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. (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 (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Related terms === bent === References === The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1] === Anagrams === D. Neb. == 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 pond, water reservoir idle or provocative words servant, henchman ==== Related terms ==== përbindësh == Northern Kurdish == === Noun === bend ? slave == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From benda, bende (“to bend”). === Noun === bend n (definite singular bendet, indefinite plural bend, definite plural benda) a bend a bent position a butt on a thick rope === Participle === bend (neuter bendt, definite singular and plural bende) past participle of benda === Verb === bend imperative of benda === References === “bend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Old English == === Alternative forms === bænd, beand === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bend/ === Noun === bend m bond, coil ribbon crown, ornament ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bend”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sara M. Pons-Sanz (2013), The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandanavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, Turhout, Belgium: Brepolis Publishers, page 72 == Old Norse == === Participle === bend inflection of bendr: strong feminine nominative singular strong neuter nominative/accusative plural === Verb === bend second-person singular active imperative of benda == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bend. === Pronunciation === (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbẽd͡ʒi/ === Noun === bend m (plural bends) (music, electric guitar) bend (change in pitch produced by bending a string) == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Borrowed from English band. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bênd/ === Noun === bȅnd m inan (Cyrillic spelling бе̏нд) (music) band (group of musicians) ==== Declension ====