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** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with
[gmh], [da], [no], [fo], [is]. Related to [en], [en], [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [bĕnd] , [en] [when followed by "the, this" and similar words]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[bends]
1. [en] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve , by physical force , chemical action, or any other means. < !--accomplishment,achievement-->
2. [en] To become curve d. < !--activity,accomplishment-->
3. [en] To cause to change direction.
4. * [book=XI]
5. * [act=IV]
6. * [passage= BENDING her eyes on the floor]
7. [en] To change direction. < !--state,activity-->
8. [en] To be inclined; to direct itself.
9. * [poem=Arcades]
10. [en] To stoop .
11. [en] To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
12. * [poem=The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere]
13. [en] To force to submit . < !--accomplishment,achievement-->
14. * [act=I]
15. * [en]
16. [en] To submit. < !--state?,activity-->
17. [en] To apply to a task or purpose. < !--state?,activity-->
18. * [part=1]
19. * [year=1717]
20. [en] To apply oneself to a task or purpose. < !--state?,activity-->
21. [en] To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. < !--accomplishment-->
22. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=Demetrios S. Katos | title=Palladius of Helenopolis: The Origenist Advocate | page=60
|passage=Palladius did not lie, although he might have BENT the facts a bit
and even passed over in silence whatever might not have benefited his client's
cause.}}
1. [en] To tie , as in securing a line to a cleat ; to shackle a chain to an anchor ; make fast . < !--accomplishment,achievement-->
2. [en] To smoothly change the pitch of a note. < !--activity,accomplishment-->
3. [en] To swing the body when rowing . < !--activity-->
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en |backbend |bendability |bendable |bend down |bender |bend it like
Beckham |bend one off |bend one's elbow |bend out of shape |bend over |bend
over backwards |bend somebody's ear |bend someone's ear |bend someone's will
|bend the brain |bend the knee |bend the rules |bend the truth |bend to one's
will |bend to someone's will |brain-bending |databend |debend |disbend
|genderbend |inbend |mind-bending |on bended knee |overbend |prebend |racebend
|rebend |unbend |upbend }}
**** Translations
[to cause to shape into a curve]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Aleut: [ale]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci] , [nci]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] [refers to knees] , [mi] , [mi] [Refers to bending the legs when running] , [mi]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Spain] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Spain] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[to become curved]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [pronominal]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Ido: [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[to cause to change direction]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Old English: [ang]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to change direction]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to be inclined; to direct itself]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to stoop]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [pronominal]
- Old English: [ang]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to bow in prayer, or in token of submission]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , * Albanian: [sq]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] [pronominal]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Old English: [ang]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[to force to submit]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Walloon: [wa] [(to force)] , [wa] [(to be forced)]
[trans-bottom]
[to submit]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [pronominal]
- Old English: [ang]
- Spanish: [es] [pronominal]
[trans-bottom]
[to apply to a task or purpose]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to apply oneself to a task or purpose]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[to tie a line]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] [sail]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Italian: [it]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to change the pitch]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to swing the body when rowing]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A curve .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1968 | author=w:Johnny Cash | title= Folsom Prison Blues
|passage=_I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the BEND_}}
1. * [chapter=1]
2. <!-- [nautical] - Why nautical? --> Any of the various knot s which join the ends of two line s. < !-- or the end of a line into some other object; (the latter are called hitch) Note: In naval parlance, a knot involves splicing the strands of a rope.--> < !-- Again, why naval? It was common parlance. Methinks someone has been reading too much Hornblower! -->
3. * [en]
4. [en] A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression , causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood ; decompression sickness .
5. [en] One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal line s 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 .
6. * [en]
7. [en] Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
8. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1608 | author= 吴语: John Fletcher (playwright) | journal=w:The Faithful Shepherdess | section=act 1, scene 3
|passage=Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my BEND.}}
1. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather ; a butt ; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
2. [en] Hard, indurated clay ; bind .
3. [en] The thickest and strongest plank s in a ship's sides, more generally called wale s, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
4. [en] The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
5. [en] A glissando , or glide between one pitch and another.
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=terms derived from _bend (noun)_ |around the bend |bend
sinister|bendlet|bendsome|bendy|round the bend |East Bend|North Bend|South
Bend|West Bend |Fort Bend County|Great Bend|in bend|sheet bend |string
bend|Tailem Bend|Ashley's bend|Flemish bend|Grecian bend|Hunter's
bend|J-bend|L-bend|Rosendahl bend|S-bend|U-bend |Z-bend|above one's
bend|adjustable bend|alpine butterfly bend|anchor bend|becket bend|bend
dexter|butterfly bend |carrick bend|double sheet bend|hairpin bend|harness
bend|heaving line bend|offset overhand bend|racking bend|return
bend|sneck-bend |zeppelin bend|per bend|per bend sinister|ring
bend|riverbend|Bendgate|bendless|bendly|bendopnea|bendwise|genderbend|sagbend|upbend
}}
**** Translations
[curve]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Karachay - Balkan: [krc]
- Karakalpak: [kaa]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh]
- Khalaj: [klj]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi] [in a track, road, or river] , [mi] [in a fenceline] , [mi] [in a fenceline] , [mi] [in a river]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Nogai: [nog]
- Northern Altai: [atv]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] [in general] ; [ota] [in a road or river]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [disused]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[knot]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[decompression sickness]
[heraldry: one of the ordinaries]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[turn; purpose; inclination; ends]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
[trans-bottom]
[best quality of sole leather]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[hard, indurated clay] [trans-bottom]
[nautical: thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[nautical: frames or ribs that form the ship's body]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Telugu: [te] (vaMpu)
[trans-bottom]
*** Related terms
- [en]
*** References
- [R:Heraldry 1862]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Albanian
*** Etymology
From [sq]. Compare [xpg], [sa], [mga], [mga] and possibly [la].
*** Noun
[g=m]
1. pond , water reservoir
2. idle or provocative words
3. servant , henchman
**** Related terms
- [sq]
** Northern Kurdish
*** Noun
[kmr-noun]
1. slave
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn], [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. a [en]
2. a bent position
3. a butt on a thick rope
*** Participle
[nn-part-1]
1. [nn]
*** Verb
[nn]
1. [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Old English
*** Alternative forms
- [ang]
*** Pronunciation
- [bend]
*** Noun
[m]
1. bond , coil
2. ribbon
3. crown , ornament
**** Declension
[bend]
**** Derived terms
{{col|ang |hellbend }}
*** References
- [bend]
- [en]
** Old Norse
*** Participle
[non]
1. [non]
*** Verb
[non]
1. [non]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
- [pt]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [pt] [en] [change in pitch produced by bending a string]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Etymology
[sh] [sh].
*** Pronunciation
- [sh]
*** Noun
[bȅnd]
1. [sh] band (group of musicians)
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |bȅnd|bendovi / bendi |benda|bendova / benda |bendu|bendovima /
bendima |bȅnd|bendove / bende |bȅnde|bendovi / bendi |bendu|bendovima /
bendima |bendom|bendovima / bendima }}